At a time when many Americans were getting cooking advice from Betty Crocker, Joyce Chen helped set the template for the modern celebrity chef. Her culinary career wasn’t limited to one box. After ...

Welcome to To Eat, Perchance to Stream for January, 2019. It’s not until February this year, but we will be celebrating some tasty streams related to food from places that celebrate Lunar New Year.

In 1966, Boston’s public television station produced two groundbreaking TV shows in the same studio. One was Julia Child’s “The French Chef.” The other was “Cooking with Joyce Chen.” A half-century ...

Click to open image viewer. “Cooking is an art—an unselfish art which you will enjoy sharing with others,” wrote Joyce Chen (1917–1994), one of America’s greatest popularizers of Chinese food. From ...

Before food television became big business, two local women changed the way America ate and cooked. The first appearance of Housekeeper’s Column, which editor Estelle Hatch would make into the first ...

Chef Joyce Chen wore many titles in a life worthy of a novel. Wartime survivor. Immigrant. Mother. Entrepreneur. Inventor. American. Born in Beijing and raised in Shanghai, Chen most notably ...