Cheryl Tan's "A Tiger in the Kitchen" with Ava Chin February 24, 2011

Join us for a delectable evening with NYC food and fashion writer Cheryl Tan and NY Times Urban Foraging Columnist Ava Chin as they explore the relationship between food, family, and memory. Cheryl Tan will read from and discuss her new memoir, A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family, which Kirkus Review places in the lineage of "two different memoirs, Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and Julie Powell's Julie & Julia." After years at the Wall Street Journal, Tan journeyed home to Singapore to spend a year learning to cook the recipes she had taken for granted as a child, learning from her aunties hidden truths about her family and about herself that she would never otherwise have discovered. And you can taste some of the Singaporean treats in the memoir with food provided by Cafe Asean!