#830 - Miranda Brown (Historian of Chinese food & Medicine)

Miranda is a Professor of Chinese Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. She received her PhD in Chinese History from U.C. Berkeley in 2002 and has lived in the balmy mid-West ever since. She has published two books in early Chinese history, including (The Art of Medicine in Early China: the Ancient and Medieval Origins of a Modern Archive). Later in life she discovered her true passion: Chinese food. In which she is currently working on a book that examines the history of dairy in China that might fascinate you.