Janice Wong's Book CHOW featured on CBC Radio North By Northwest with host Sheryl Mackay
This morning Janice Chow was interviewed by Sheryl Mackay on CBC Radio's North By Northwest, just after the news about 8:40am to 9am, Sunday Morning, Novemeber 13th.
CHOW From China to Canada: Tales of Food + Family, has been making all the local talk show rounds. It is a unique book that blends together the recipes of her father's Chinese Restaurant "The Lotus" together with stories of how her great-grandfather Rev. Chan Yu Tan came to Canada, his 6 children and their integration into Canadian life, and growing up with her family in Prince Albert. The book is a combination cookbook, family history, Chinese-Canadian history and memoir.
Janice described giving a book launch at Prince Albert, SK, at the site of her father's first restaurant called "Wings." She had never been there before, but the present owners had found boxes in the storage area containing menus and items from the original restaurant.
Chow is available for sale on Amazon.ca and was #132 of Amazon's top 10,000 selling books yesterday. You can even flip inside the book for select pictures and quotes
Janice has also let me know that you can hear some of the past CBC radio interviews at archived bits, 20051021 is Shelagh Rogers, Week 43 is Don Genova.
