Carolyn Phillips

THE AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR

Twice a semifinalist for the James Beard Awards, Carolyn is the author and illustrator of three books. Her prose, articles, illustrations, and recipes have appeared in many major publications, and The Atlantic included one of her essays in its “More Than 100 Exceptional Works of Journalism.”

Carolyn's detailed and often magical illustrations have appeared in books, magazines, museums, galleries, Papyrus greeting cards, and Nickelodeon’s Supah Ninja series. She even designed the Chinatown scenes for the third Ghostbusters movie, directed by Paul Feig.

PUBLICATIONS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

She has written and illustrated:

• AT THE CHINESE TABLE: A MEMOIR WITH RECIPES (Norton, June 2021)

• ALL UNDER HEAVEN: RECIPES FROM THE 35 CUISINES OF CHINA (McSweeney’s + Ten Speed Press, August 2016)

• THE DIM SUM FIELD GUIDE: A TAXONOMY OF DUMPLINGS, BUNS, MEATS, SWEETS, AND OTHER SPECIALTIES

OF THE CHINESE TEAHOUSE (Ten Speed, August 2016)

Her writings and illustrations can be found everywhere from Lucky Peach to Saveur to many compilations, including:

• BEST FOOD WRITING 2015

• FEED YOUR PEOPLE: BIG-BATCH, BIG-HEARTED COOKING AND RECIPES TO GATHER AROUND (2018)

• THE ILLUSTRATED WOK (2017)

Now a member of the prestigious James Beard Book Awards Committee, Carolyn's work has been featured at the 2013 MAD Symposium in Copenhagen, where her illustrated "Dim Sum Field Guide" was distributed to attendees by one of the hosts, Lucky Peach. Her popular weekly culinary blog, Madame Huang’s Kitchen, was named a Saveur Blog ’17 Award finalist.

in. 2017, her writing achieved the impossible: a double nomination from the “Oscars of the food world”:

• Her first book, ALL UNDER HEAVEN, was a finalist for the 2017 James Beard Awards in International Cookbooks.

• And her prose was nominated for that year’s 2017 MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award.

Carolyn has been consistently sought as a culinary expert by the U.S. State Department in its soft diplomatic outreach toward China, where she delivered talks in Mandarin Chinese to audiences in Chengdu, Sichuan. A short film in Chinese about Carolyn and her husband received over 10 million hits at last count. In addition, she has been a featured speaker at the Smithsonian Museum, the China Institute, 92nd Street Y, and Google, and has been sought out as an expert by Julie Moskin at The New York Times, Evan Kleinman (“Good Food,” KCRW), Vogue’s Tamar Adler, Vice Munchies, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Wall Street Journal, among many others.

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