For fans of Crying in H Mart and Taiwan Travelogue

A soulful blend of memoir and recipes, How to Cook Rice is a tender exploration of how food becomes the language of love and identity in a Taiwanese American immigrant family.

In How to Cook Rice: On the Care and Feeding of an Immigrant Family, Grace Hwang Lynch takes readers on a bittersweet journey as the firstborn daughter of Taiwanese immigrants learning to navigate the California suburbs, Asian American identity, and motherhood while exploring what love, food, and family mean in light of her generational roots. Through Grace’s stories and included recipes, these meals express what words cannot, prompting an examination of what love—and food—mean in an immigrant family.