When journalist Ann Mah's diplomat husband is given a three-year assignment in Paris, Mah is overjoyed and begins plotting gastronomic adventures deux. Then her husband is called away to Iraq on a year-long post -- alone. So, not unlike another diplomatic wife, Julia Child, Mah reinvents her dream of living in France, one dish at a time. And somewhere between Paris and the south of France, she uncovers a few of life's truths.
Ann Mah is a food and travel writer. She attended the University of California at Los Angeles, and moved to New York City. In 2003 she moved to Beijing to work as a food writer. In 2005 she studied in Italy on a culinary scholarship. In 2008, she moved to Paris. In 2010, her first novel, *Kitchen Chinese* was published.
