Fu Pei-mei may be best known in America as the author and self-publisher of “Pei Mei’s Chinese Cookbook.” After the bilingual three-volume series’ 1969 Taiwan debut, copies of the cookbook could be ...

Seven decades ago, long before Fu Pei-mei became a beloved authority on Chinese cooking, she was struggling to make jiaozi. These boiled dumplings from northern China were her husband’s favorite and ...

If you grew up in the ’80s or ’90s, there’s a good chance you watched Fu Pei Mei’s cooking show on RPN 9 on Sunday morning. In the cooking show, she shared her countless recipes on Chinese cuisine, ...

When 18-year-old Fu Pei-mei traveled by herself from her home in China to live in Taiwan in 1949, she joined 1 million other refugees who fled the mainland at the end of the Chinese Civil War. She ...

Picture a woman who becomes a TV star in 1962, teaching people how to cook one of the world's great cuisines. Nope, not Julia Child. It's Fu Pei-mei. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) FU PEI-MEI: (Non ...