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- catalog abstract "The collection documents Grace Zia Chu's career as a culinary instructor and author and includes awards; biographical documents and correspondence; recipes and menus from classes; clippings; materials from demonstrations and lectures; and a short film based on her cookbook, The Pleasures of Chinese Cooking. The collection also documents her earlier career as a diplomatic military attaché's wife and as vice-president of the World YWCA through clippings and typewritten speeches.".
- catalog contributor b2093486.
- catalog contributor b2093487.
- catalog contributor b2093488.
- catalog date "1941".
- catalog description "Chinese American culinary instructor and author Grace Zia Chu was born August 23, 1899, in Shanghai, China. She attended Wellesley College in Massachusetts from 1920-1924 and received a graduate certificate in Hygiene and Physical Education in 1925. In 1928 she married Shih-Ming Chu. They had two sons, Samuel (born 1929) and Daniel (born 1933). Early in her career, Madame Chu was very involved with the World Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), serving as international vice-president from 1942-1947. She returned to the United States in 1941 when her husband was appointed military attaché to the Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C., later becoming a U.S. citizen in 1955.".
- catalog description "Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch01293".
- catalog description "Grace Zia Chu Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.".
- catalog description "In 1954 Madame Chu established her career as an instructor of Chinese cooking when she was invited to New York City to teach at the China Institute in America. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, she taught many classes on Chinese cooking, including at the Mandarin House School of Cooking, the Culinary Institute of America, and in her own apartment on the upper west side of Manhattan.".
- catalog description "She published two cookbooks, The Pleasures of Chinese Cooking (1962) and Madame Chu's Chinese Cooking School (1975) which were both praised for their clear and concise approach to preparing Chinese dishes for an American audience. Madame Chu died April 15, 1999, a few months shy of her 100th birthday.".
- catalog description "The collection documents Grace Zia Chu's career as a culinary instructor and author and includes awards; biographical documents and correspondence; recipes and menus from classes; clippings; materials from demonstrations and lectures; and a short film based on her cookbook, The Pleasures of Chinese Cooking. The collection also documents her earlier career as a diplomatic military attaché's wife and as vice-president of the World YWCA through clippings and typewritten speeches.".
- catalog description "Unpublished finding aid.".
- catalog extent ".83 linear ft. (2 file boxes) plus 1 oversize folder, 7 photograph folders, 2 videotapes, 1 motion picture.".
- catalog issued "1941".
- catalog language "Materials in English.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "China Institute in America.".
- catalog subject "Chinese Americans.".
- catalog subject "Chu, Grace Zia.".
- catalog subject "Cooking Study and teaching.".
- catalog subject "Cooking schools United States.".
- catalog subject "Cooking, Chinese.".
- catalog subject "Cooks United States.".
- catalog subject "Dannenbaum, Julie.".
- catalog subject "Gas cooking United States.".
- catalog subject "Household appliances Marketing.".
- catalog subject "Women cooks.".
- catalog subject "World Young Women's Christian Association.".
- catalog title "Papers of Grace Zia Chu, 1941-1986 (inclusive).".
- catalog type "Menus. aat".
- catalog type "Motion pictures. aat".
- catalog type "Photographs. aat".
- catalog type "Recipes. aat".
- catalog type "Videotapes. local".
- catalog type "collection".