LUCKY RICE

"If we are what we eat," says LuckyRice founder Danielle Chang, "then we're all part Asian." As her popular culinary festival has demonstrated, the appetite for innovative Asian cuisine has never been bigger.

Danielle distills the trends of traditional Asian cuisine from a range of cultures (Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Korean, and beyond) into 100 original recipes in this debut cookbook. Fish sauce and ginger are stirred into a tangy sungold tomato gazpacho, and potato salad made with kewpie mayonnaise and cucumber serves as a new Japanese (and American) picnic classic. Danielle shares the traditions behind each dish and introduces new ways to bring these flavors into your everyday cooking and celebrations.

DANIELLE CHANG is the founder of LuckyRice, a culinary agency based in New York, and creator of the LuckyRice Festival, a national celebration of Asian cultures and cuisines. Prior to starting LuckyRice, Danielle was the CEO of fashion and lifestyle company Vivienne Tam and a professor of art history at R.I.T. She was born in Taipei and has a master's degree from Columbia University in cultural studies. She lives in New York with her husband and two daughters.