Loves to eat but hates to cook. Annabel Liu has lived with this conundrum all her immigrant life, and her intentions in the kitchen have always been dishonorable—to cheat, skimp, and get away with as little work as possible. Before leaving Taiwan for the U.S. at the age of twenty-two, she had never set foot in the kitchen, and she spent the next sixty years trying to minimize her time and effort there while feeding herself and her family. In this witty and contemplative collection of personal essays, Liu takes us on a journey into her mind and across the globe with her unique insight into food, family, travel, and life as an outsider. She delves into why the Chinese are the most food-obsessed people in the world; her thirty-year pursuit of a decent Chinese meal in the sticks of America; the issues of food and drink between vastly disparate cultures; and the struggles of bridging generational and cultural gaps within the family. A journalist by training, Annabel Liu has published ten books in English and Chinese, including My Years as Chang Tsen: Two Wars, One Childhood and Under the Towering Tree: A Daughter’s Memoir. When Chopsticks Meet Apple Pie: Cross-Cultural Musings on Life, Family, and Food completes her trilogy on one immigrant’s life.