Mei Chin
Mei Chin (born 1977) is a fiction and food writer living in Dublin.[1]
Her short stories have appeared in Fiction and Bomb magazines and are characterized by a combination of the fantastic and the mundane.[2]
In the late 1990s she was an editor at Vogue, and she has written reviews and essays for Gourmet, Vogue, Mirabella, The New York Times Book Review, and other publications.[3][4] She is also the author of a number of books of literary criticism for Chelsea House Publishers, and she has taught food writing at Yale University.[5] Her essays have been anthologized in Best Food Writing 2004, 2006, and 2012.[6]
She is a native of Connecticut and a graduate of Hopkins School and Wesleyan University. Her mother, Professor Annping Chin teaches at Yale, and her stepfather, Professor Jonathan Spence, taught there until he retired in 2008.
Awards[]
She won the James Beard Foundation's M. F. K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award in 2005 for "Eat Drink Mother Daughter,"[7][8] (a long article published in Saveur) and won an IACP Food Journalism Award in 2010 for her Saveur article "The Art of Kimchi."[9][10]
References[]
- ^ Baste the Book
- ^ Fiction Magazine Author Index Archived 2013-07-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Gourmet October 2008 Press Release
- ^ "Dana Schutz" Bomb Magazine Spring 2006
- ^ Yale Writing Center web site Archived 2011-09-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "My Life With Rice," Best Food Writing 2006
- ^ "Eat Drink Mother Daughter," Saveur, Feb 4, 2008
- ^ StarChefs.com
- ^ "The Art of Kimchi," Saveur, October 14, 2009
- ^ IACP Press Release, April 23, 2010 Archived October 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
External links[]
- Baste The Book (Chin's personal web site)
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