A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family - Softcover

In a heartwarming, charming and delicious memoir about food and family--and the meaning of home--the author explains how she longed for--and became reacquainted with--her childhood home of Singapore. Original.

Cheryl Lu-Lien 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 In Style 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.