A review by heatherinjapan
A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

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4.0

I really enjoyed this memoir! It was written so well! It also makes you sit back an think about the author's background. You could tell that she was going through a process of facing her own privilege and her identity. While there were times where I was thinking, that's definitely something a rich person would say or do, there were also plenty of times where she faced her own family's history of poverty and strife and that she really has benefited from the hard work of her family. 

I do find it funny or just interesting that all of the women that she's learning to cook from are only home cooks, albeit some of them famous locally for their talents, but all the male cooks she talks to and learns from are like Michelin star chefs... It really shows that even though women/AFAB people can cook the most delicious meals, they don't get the same amount of recognition as the men who cook, even if they're more mid.