Marlena Spieler

Food writer and broadcaster

Yee also wrote Dim Sum, and was a tutor/teacher at the San Francisco Culinary Academy. There have been other, fancier, more elaborate Chinese cookbooks since Rhoda's which appeared some time in the late 1970s, but hers is her food culture, given from her heart. Another treasure.

Erik Murnighan

President, International Culinary Center