Chopstick Cinema: Exploring Asian Food and Film

This book shows how to explore ten exciting countries of Asia no passport necessary. With easy-to-follow recipes for dishes usually found only in restaurants, suggestions for movies so good that they almost don t need subtitles, and mouthwatering photographs of delectable meals, Celeste Heiter shows how to have a variety of unforgettable evenings that bring the far corners of Asia to American households. "

With her lifelong love of Japan, its people, and its culture, Celeste Heiter believes that she may have been Japanese in a previous incarnation. In this lifetime, however, Celeste was born in Mobile, Alabama, where she earned a bachelor s degree in art and English from the University of South Alabama. Inspired by an enduring dream to visit the Great Buddha at Kamakura, she moved to Tokyo in 1988 and spent two years teaching English conversation. Celeste now makes her home in California s beautiful Napa Valley, with the most treasured souvenir of her life in Japan: her son Will, who was born during her stay in Tokyo. She edited and contributed essays to the guidebookTo Japan With Loveand is the author ofVignettes of Japan, Ganbatte Means Go For It, Five Seven Five, The Sushi Book, andChopstick Cinema: Exploring Asian Food and Film(www.chopstickcinema.com).＂