GOURMET CELESTIAL

Wong, Mrs. Tyrus; Cookbook Editor

Published by Los Angeles Chinese Women's Club, Los Angeles, 1970

About this Item

197p., dividers unnumbered. 3rd printing. Plastic comb binding with hard plastic sheet on front. A community cookbook with more than 200 "home-style Chinese" recipes, including those for soup, entrees, sauces, vegetables, salads, rice, noodles, and desserts, collected from the Los Angeles Chinese Women's Club members. Proceeds of the cookbook sales were planned for high school seniors scholarships for Belmont and Manual Arts high schools. The club "was founded in 1944 by Lily Ho Quon in order to unite war relief efforts between Chinese American and Anglo American women. Most of its members were middle and upper class Chinese American women. In 1947, this group joined the California Federation of Women's Clubs and, in 1953, created a junior component." (SurveyLA, Chinese American Historic Contest Statement) An expanded edition of the cookbook was reissued in 1983, with $15,000 raised from the sale of the first edition going to scholarships for high school seniors at Belmont, Lincoln, and Marshall high schools. A highlight of the cookbook is the section divider illustrations provided by the editor's husband, noted artist Tyrus Wong. His career included designing holiday cards, hand painting pottery for Winfield Pottery, and creating set designs and storyboards for Rebel Without a Cause and Around the World in Eighty Days. However, his most influential work was the pastels that he created at Disney Studios that "served as inspiration for Bambi (1942), and have influenced the art of animation." (Otis Art Institute website)Includes glossary. B&w illustrations by Tyrus Wong. (8-1/2"x8"). Seller Inventory # P8689

Bibliographic Details

Title: GOURMET CELESTIAL

Publisher: Los Angeles Chinese Women's Club, Los Angeles

Publication Date: 1970

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very good