Double Cup Love

February 15, 2016
Huang gives readers another punch of passion in his second memoir (after 2013’s massively successful Fresh Off the Boat). With his gift for conversation, edgy humor, and deeply knowledgeable palate, readers get a sense of a young chef on a serious quest. As Huang finds love, he continues to wrestle with his family and the business, discovering a nagging ache that calls him back to the motherland. Yearning to discover whether his cooking will satisfy foodies in China—not just the flock of fans at his ever-popular N.Y.C. restaurant, Baohaus—he tests the waters in Chengdu and cooks his heart out. “Something about it was the same, but different, as if the spirits circling me had been present all along but were suddenly visible.” Through an endless stream of hilarious basketball metaphors, pop culture one-liners, and what Huang affectionately calls “Chinglish,” his passion for food and determination to get things right—in the U.S., in China, and in his heart of hearts—mark every page. Agent: Marc Gerald, Agency Group Talent.

September 15, 2015

Proprietor of the New York City restaurant Baohaus, author of the best-selling memoir Fresh off the Boat, executive producer of the ABC hit show based on that book, and host of ViceTV's Huang's World, picked up by HBO for fall 2015, Huang started wondering just how true his Chinese identity really was. So he got brothers Emery and Evan to travel with him to China, where he reconnected with his heritage and opened his own stand to see whether his food measured up. Here he argues not for an American melting pot but a grand mosaic.

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