Michelle T. King's new book is about a pioneering cook who brought Chinese food to the world, Fu Pei-mei. NPR's Scott Simon talks with King about her and about the book, "Chop Fry Watch Learn.

The Netflix show What She Put on the Table follows the life of Fu Pei-mei, a culinary icon who taught generations of Taiwanese women how to cook — and did it before anyone had heard of Julia Child.

Seven decades ago, long before Fu Pei-mei became a beloved authority on Chinese cooking, she was struggling to make jiaozi. These boiled dumplings from northern China were her husband’s favorite ...

If you grew up in the ’80s or ’90s, there’s a good chance you watched Fu Pei Mei’s cooking show on RPN 9 on Sunday morning. In the cooking show, she shared her countless recipes on Chinese ...

Fu Pei-mei may be best known in America as the author and self-publisher of “Pei Mei’s Chinese Cookbook.” After the bilingual three-volume series’ 1969 Taiwan debut, copies of the cookbook ...

Nope, not Julia Child. It's Fu Pei-mei. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) FU PEI-MEI: (Non-English language spoken). SIMON: Fu Pei-mei appeared on Taiwan television for 40 years. Her 1969 cookbook ...

Nope, not Julia Child. It's Fu Pei-mei. SIMON: Fu Pei-mei appeared on Taiwan television for 40 years. Her 1969 cookbook published with recipes in Mandarin and English is still considered a classic ...