PETER: The alternate title for this recipe is “My Fortuitous Garlic Eggplant,” because this is the dish that gave me my lucky break at the restaurant, the day I was visited by Peter Kaufman and Jiang Xiaozhen. Ms. Jiang is the daughter of Bai Yang, the most famous female movie star in China in the 1930s and ’40s, and Peter is the son of famous film director and producer Philip Kaufm
