Carolyn Phillips

Author & Illustrator, MadameHuang.com

Twice a semifinalist for the James Beard Awards, I am the author and illustrator of two published books and one upcoming memoir. My prose, articles, illustrations, and recipes have appeared in many major publications, and The Atlantic included one of my essays in its “More Than 100 Exceptional Works of Journalism.”

My detailed and often magical illustrations have appeared in books, magazines, museums, galleries, Papyrus greeting cards, and Nickelodeon’s Supah Ninja series.

I even designed the Chinatown scenes for the third Ghostbusters movie, directed by Paul Feig.

Publications & Accomplishments

I have written and illustrated:

·      At the Chinese Table: A Memoir with Recipes (Norton, June 2021)

·      All Under Heaven: Recipes from the 35 Cuisines of China (McSweeney’s + Ten Speed Press, August 2016)

·      The Dim Sum Field Guide: A Taxonomy of Dumplings, Buns, Meats, Sweets, and Other Specialties of the Chinese Teahouse (Ten Speed, August 2016)

My writings and illustrations can be found everywhere from Lucky Peach to Saveur to many compilations, including:

·      Best Food Writing 2015

·      Feed Your People: Big-Batch, Big-Hearted Cooking and Recipes to Gather Around (2018)

·      The Illustrated Wok (2017)

Now a member of the prestigious James Beard Book Awards Committee, my work has been featured at the 2013 MAD Symposium in Copenhagen, where my illustrated Dim Sum Field Guide was distributed to attendees by one of the hosts, Lucky Peach. My popular weekly culinary blog, Madame Huang’s Kitchen, was named a Saveur Blog ’17 Award finalist.  

I have been consistently sought as a culinary expert by the U.S. State Department in its soft diplomatic outreach toward China, where I have delivered talks in Mandarin Chinese. A short film in Chinese about my husband and myself received over 10 million hits at last count. In addition, I have been a featured speaker at the Smithsonian Museum, the China Institute, 92nd Street Y, and Google, and have been sought out as an expert by Julie Moskin at The New York Times, Evan Kleinman (“Good Food,” KCRW), Vogue’s Tamar Adler, Vice Munchies, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Wall Street Journal, among many others.