(CNN) — San Francisco chef Cecilia Chiang, who blazed a trail for Chinese cuisine in the United States, died Wednesday. She is widely credited with bringing real Chinese food to America and was a celebrity chef before celebrity chefs were popularized. "Most ABC, American-born Chinese, even they didn't know [about Chinese food]," Chiang explained in an interview with CNN Travel in 2018. The refined side of Chinese foodThe year was 1961, and Chiang insisted on showing diners the refined side of Chinese food. In fact, her early brushes with Chinese food in America had left her unimpressed and determined to show San Francisco what Chinese food was really like.

Source: CNN October 28, 2020 23:07 UTC