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Ann Mah is a food and travel writer, and author of a novel, Kitchen Chinese (HarperCollins, 2010). Her articles about food, travel, fashion, style and the arts have appeared in the New York Times, Condé Nast Traveler, the International Herald Tribune, Washingtonian magazine and other publications.

After graduating from UCLA in 1997, Ann began her career in book publishing, eventually becoming an assistant editor at Viking Penguin in New York. From 2003-2007 she lived in Beijing, where she was a staff writer and dining editor for That’s Beijing, an English-language entertainment magazine. In 2005, she was awarded a James Beard culinary scholarship to study in Bologna, Italy. Ann currently lives in Paris where she is at work on a nonfiction bo...more


San Sebastián has a beach shaped like a scallop shell, a bevy of Belle Epoque buildings lining the promenade, a baroque church with a facade as intricate as old lace. But I came here for only one reason: to eat.



In the past decade, this Spanish resort town on the Atlantic coast has become a center of world gastronomy. (Wondering why? How? Articles here, here, and here offer some clues.) I spen...

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Average rating: 3.36 · 482 ratings · 133 reviews · 1 distinct work
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I loved the buzzing, humid, oppressively vivid sense of place in this book, even if the characters and plot didn't quite hang together for me.
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Rock Paper Tiger by Lisa Brackmann
" Rock Paper Tiger, an up-to-the-minute, kaleidoscopic romp through contemporary China with some side-stops in US-occupied Iraq, is the first novel of Lisa Brackman, who I know as a fellow blogger who focuses on China. Lisa has done the impossible:... "
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