Grace Young, known as a wok evangelist, has won many awards including the IACP Le Cordon Bleu International Cookbook Awards for her first book The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen: Classic Family Recipes for Celebration and Healing and her second book The Breath of a Wok: Unlocking the Spirit of Wok Cooking Through Recipes and Lore. After spending 3 1/2 years on her latest project, she recently came out with her third book Stir-Frying to the Sky's Edge: The Ultimate Guide to Mastery, with Authentic Recipes and Stories, which has gotten rave reviews for her demystified, detailed, and easy-to-follow guide for home wok-cooking.
You can find Grace Young on the web www.graceyoung.com and on Twitter @stirfrygrace. She will be also discussing Chinese cooking techniques and its evolution under the title of "Wok the Wok and Talk the Talk" at the Asian Feastival in Queens on Labor Day, September 6th, a one-day event celebrating Asian culinary cultures.
She was kind to answer some questions for the ZenKimchi Food Journal. Just as in her books, her genuine enthusiasm for wok-cooking came through in our interview. You can find my full interview with her here.
