Join us on Saturday afternoon at KOBO at Higo in the International District and meet  Andrea Nguyen, an author, food writer, and cooking teacher based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Born in Vietnam, she came to the United States at the age of six. Her first book publication was "Trip to Freedom," a short children's book on how her family came to America. Andrea's food writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Sunset and Saveur magazine, where she is also a contributing editor.

Her first cookbook, "Into the Vietnamese Kitchen" was nominated for three 2007 James Beard and IACP cookbook awards. "Asian Dumplings" was her second cookbook with award-winning publisher Ten Speed Press. In March 2012, Cooking Light magazine selected both books for their Best 100 Cookbooks of the Past 25 Years award. Andrea's works comprised two of the seven cookbooks in the Asian category.

Andrea's third cookbook, "Asian Tofu" was released on February 28, 2012 by Ten Speed Press/Random House. It's a exciting work loaded with techniques and recipes, as well as personal stories of artisans, cooks, and chefs for whom story is a vital part of their lives. In advance of publication, it was reviewed and featured in Martha Stewart Living, San Francisco magazine, Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly.

All of Andrea's works are available as ebooks, with "Asian Dumplings" and "Asian Tofu" being also released as enhanced ebooks with additional video and audio content. She has collaborated with Chronicle Books to develop the Asian Market Shopper iPhone app, which helps cooks understand and select Asian ingredients.

Regardless of topic, Andrea unlocks the cuisines of Asia for cooks to explore, master, and savor.

Join Andrea  for "Tofu Talk" to learn about and sample some of the  the variety of tofu available for home cooking. 

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