Susan
"I guess I’m always thinking about cooking. I have memories of our house being a gathering place for tons of people. I still remember my mother…she did all the cooking every day. We never bought much; everything was made from scratch. The food just had a very pure taste. And that’s what I learned from her: it’s always better to make it yourself."
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"[My husband and I] were living in a small town and I really did miss Chinese food. So, I actually learned to be a fairly good cook. I only needed to go to a Chinatown to get groceries. I learned to adapt a lot of the foods I like. If I can’t get a lot of Chinese vegetables, I just use the western vegetables. As long as I had my soy sauce and dried mushrooms and things like that I can always make a meal. But certainly, a lot of the passing of culture, between the generations, is this love for the same food. And it was certainly very true of the Chinese people… I think what you eat as a child stays with you." |
Susan was born in China in the mid-1940s and immigrated to Victoria, Canada at the age of four to join her father’s extended family. She attended the University of British Columbia where she met her husband. They came to the United States in the early 1970s to find work and begin their family. She has three children and two grandchildren.
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