. . . . . . . . . . . "Mei Chin (born 1977) is a fiction and food writer living in Dublin. Her short stories have appeared in Fiction and Bomb magazines and are characterized by a combination of the fantastic and the mundane. In the late 1990s she was an editor at Vogue, and she has written reviews and essays for Gourmet, Vogue, Mirabella, The New York Times Book Review, and other publications. She is also the author of a number of books of literary criticism for Chelsea House Publishers, and she has taught food writing at Yale University. Her essays have been anthologized in Best Food Writing 2004, 2006, and 2012. She is a native of Connecticut and a graduate of Hopkins School and Wesleyan University. Her mother, Professor Annping Chin teaches at Yale, and her stepfather, Professor Jonathan Spence, taught there until he retired in 2008."@en . . . . . "5812835"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "3603"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1085600389"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Mei Chin (born 1977) is a fiction and food writer living in Dublin. Her short stories have appeared in Fiction and Bomb magazines and are characterized by a combination of the fantastic and the mundane. In the late 1990s she was an editor at Vogue, and she has written reviews and essays for Gourmet, Vogue, Mirabella, The New York Times Book Review, and other publications. She is also the author of a number of books of literary criticism for Chelsea House Publishers, and she has taught food writing at Yale University. Her essays have been anthologized in Best Food Writing 2004, 2006, and 2012."@en . . . . "Mei Chin"@en . .