Pearl Kong Chen

Pearl Kong Chen (1926 – 2014)was a Chinese-American cooking teacher and cookbook author known as an expert on Cantonese cuisine. Chen's grandfather, Kong Hungyun, was a Qing dynasty official and noted gourmet in Guangzhou in the early 1900s, but she did not begin her own culinary career until she came to America in 1967.She lived in New York and in California, where she taught cooking and home economics classes at San Jose State University and provided instruction to high school teachers. Chen wrote over 40 cookbooks, primarily in Chinese, but in 1983 she published Everything You Want to Know about Chinese Cooking, for an American audience. [Wikipedia]