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Jen Lin-Liu

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Born

in Chicago, The United States

Website

http://www.jenlinliu.com/

Genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Cooking, Food & Wine, Travel

Member Since

April 2008

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Jen Lin-Liu is the author of Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China and the founder of the cooking school Black Sesame Kitchen in Beijing. She was raised in southern California, graduated from Columbia University, and went to China in 2000 on a Fulbright fellowship. A food critic for Time Out Beijing and the coauthor of Frommer’s Beijing, she has also written for Newsweek, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Saveur, and Food & Wine.

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Average rating: 3.58 · 2,609 ratings · 440 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta 3.36 avg rating — 1,480 ratings — published 2008 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China 3.88 avg rating — 1,069 ratings — published 2008 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frommer's China 3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2003 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frommer's Beijing Day by Day liked it 3.00 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2007 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frommer's Beijing by Jen Lin-Liu (Goodreads Author), Sherisse Pham 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lombok: Frommer's ShortCuts it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beijing Restaurants 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	ZAGAT Beijing Dining, Hotels, Nightlife, Shopping, Sites & Attractions by Jen Lin-Liu (Goodreads Author), Paul Mooney, Sherisse Pham 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beijing Day 2nd (second) edition Text Only 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Noodle Road : From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta (Paperback)--by Jen Lin-liu [2014 Edition] by Jen Lin-Liu (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Italy was the only place I'd visited where people described kitchen implements as having souls of their own.”
― Jen Lin-Liu, On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta

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