The Chopsticks-Fork Principle: A Memoir and Manual

Bean, Cathy Bao

ISBN 10: 0972566309 / ISBN 13: 9780972566308

Published by Newton, New Jersey, U.S.A.: We Pr, 2003

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Signed by the author on the title page, with a small cartoon face drawing. Unmarked, no defects. Illustrated with 4 pages of photos. Seller Inventory # 111220K

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Chopsticks-Fork Principle: A Memoir and ...

Publisher: Newton, New Jersey, U.S.A.: We Pr

Publication Date: 2003

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

Cultural Writing. Asian American Studies. THE CHOPSTICKS-FORK PRINCIPLE, A MEMOIR AND MANUAL by Cathy Bao Bean is about how she and her husband, artist Bennett Bean, raised their son biculturally, although it is evocative of far more than that "shared and separate" family journey. "Zany, moving, hilarious, and deep--not infrequently all at once--Cathy Bao Bean gives us a rollicking tour of the Bean method of merging work and play while negotiating cultural and generational divides. THE CHOPSTICKS-FORK PRINCIPLE creates a daily life far richer than its original constituent parts. Cathy Bao Bean has written a tart, feisty, whimsical and penetrating saga of the family that invented the Chopsticks-Fork Principle and then proceeded to live by it"--Celia Morris, author of Finding Celia's Place.

About the Author:

Cathy Bao Bean is a daughter, business manager, aerobics instructor, mother, friend, writer, sister, educational consultant, wife, and activist for the NJ Council for the Humanities. In a previous incarnation, she was a Philosophy teacher, cook, student, carpool driver. She is a member of the Society for Values in Higher Education, Ridge and Valley Conservancy, and NJ Chapter of The World Future Society executive boards. In the process, she has been learning how to make the "foreign" more familiar and the ordinary and extraordinary into each other.

None of it has been painless. All of it has been fun - except the cooking.