Manyee Elaine Mar

Manyee Elaine Mar is a cook, recipe developer, and author. She grew up in a Chinese restaurant in Denver, where she learned to make everything from sauces to wontons to almond cookies. She has been a cooking class coordinator for Share Our Strength, pairing professional, high-end restaurant chefs and recipe developers with low-income participants. Mar is also the author of Paper Daughter , a memoir about growing up in a Chinese restaurant in Denver. Paper Daughter has been chosen as required...See more

Manyee Elaine Mar is a cook, recipe developer, and author. She grew up in a Chinese restaurant in Denver, where she learned to make everything from sauces to wontons to almond cookies. She has been a cooking class coordinator for Share Our Strength, pairing professional, high-end restaurant chefs and recipe developers with low-income participants. Mar is also the author of Paper Daughter , a memoir about growing up in a Chinese restaurant in Denver. Paper Daughter has been chosen as required first-year reading at various colleges, and continues to be taught in multicultural literature classes nationwide. Ms. Mar lives in Cambridge, MA. See less