Brava to Clarissa Wei for doing justice to her heritage in cookbook form and making money from it!!! We had a great convo with her on Everything Cookbooks when Made in Taiwan dropped:
To anyone who thinks you need a huge social media following to pitch or sell a cookbook..I’m proof that you don’t.
My debut, Made in Taiwan: Recipes and Stories from the Island Nation, earned out in two years and has sold far more copies than I have social media followers.
It’s a utilitarian & rigorously fact-checked (because I hired fact…