Target Free Thursday Author Talk: A Tiger in the Kitchen by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

“My paternal grandmother, whom I called Tanglin Ah-Ma because she once lived in the Tanglin neighborhood of Singapore, was a true legend in the kitchen…While we didn’t have the words to communicate, Tanglin Ah-Ma spoke eloquently to me, to her family, by feeding us all…The crowning moment for my Tanglin Ah-Ma, however, was Chinese New Year, a time of great feasting in Singapore when people devote entire days to hopping from house to house, catching up with friends and relatives while stuffing themselves with platters of noodles, candy and above all, cookies.” — Cheryl Lu-Tien Tan, A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family
 

Join MOCA for a Lunar New Year launch of Cheryl Lu-Tien Tan’s memoir about food and family –and the meaning of home.

About the Author
Cheryl Tan is a New York-based writer who has covered fashion, retail, and home design (and written the occasional food story) for the Wall Street Journal. Before that she was the senior fashion writer for InStyle magazine and senior arts, entertainment, and fashion writer for the Baltimore Sun. Born and raised in Singapore, she crossed the ocean for college in the U.S. after realizing that a) she wanted to be a journalist and b) if she was going to be as mouthy in her work as she was in real life, she’d better not do it in Singapore.
 

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