A Banquet for Cecilia: How Cecilia Chang Revolutionized Chinese Food in America

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Relish in the savory, tangy, and sometimes spicy dishes of Cecilia Chiang, a revolutionary who changed the way Americans viewed Chinese food.

From an early age, Cecilia Chiang could be found delighting in the sounds and smells from her favorite room in her home—the kitchen. Little did Cecilia know that she would one day have to escape war and travel to a faraway country, destined to change Chinese cuisine in the United States forever.

Experience the dishes Cecilia Chiang enjoyed throughout her life as the seventh daughter in a large family to the owner of the famous Mandarin restaurant in San Francisco.

Julie Leung is the author of numerous books for children including the Caldecott honoree The Truth About Dragons; APALA award-winning Paper Son: The Inspiring Story of Tyrus Wong, Immigrant and Artist, illustrated by Chris Sasaki; and The Fearless Flights of Hazel Ying Lee. She invites you to visit her online at jleungbooks.com.

Melissa Iwai is an author/illustrator of over thirty picture books, including Let's Party!: A DIY Illustrated Guide to 10 Fantastic Birthday Parties, Soup Day, Pizza Day, Dumplings for Lili, and Gigi and Ojiji, a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor-winning series. When she is not creating, she can be found cooking and doing crossword puzzles with her husband, author Denis Markell, in Brooklyn.

"A Banquet for Cecilia is a visual and textual feast for the senses and an important story of yet another way immigrants contribute to society."—Booklist "Interspersed with images of Cecelia’s life and travels, loosely rendered mixed-media artwork places dishes atop maps to situate their origins. The result is a lively food atlas that spotlights care as the finest ingredient."—Publishers Weekly "Leung’s straightforward and thoughtful prose never glosses over Chiang’s diﬃcult life but lingers instead on the poetry of cooking, which is expertly paired with Iwai’s watercolors that oﬀer heartwarming and mouthwatering details on every spread. An author’s note provides photos of Chiang and additional information in this story steeped in foodways and family."—Horn Book "Close-ups of the various dishes paired with sumptuous descriptions, along with maps of the regions where they originated, emphasize the richness of Chinese cuisine. Inspiring and delicious."—Kirkus Reviews "Words and illustrations provide an excellent introduction to how one woman brought her love of fine Chinese food to the United States."—School Library Journal

ISBN: 9780759557413
40 pages 11.3 in H | 8.9 in W | 0.9 lb Wt

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