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Grace Hwang Lynch

@gracehwanglynch.bsky.social
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Taiwanese American storyteller. Preorder my memoir HOW TO COOK RICE 📗gracehwanglynch.com

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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 6h
Looking forward to talking on Sunday with May-lee about this amazing collection 📙
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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I think the most “adult who was in a gifted and talented program as a kid” thing I could have done to myself was become an author. Just giving myself endless homework and a need for people to be proud of me forever.
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My food writing webinar is rescheduled to Saturday 10/3. Thx for bearing with me (some health issues I need to take care of)
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text October 3 1 pm ET Taste and See Using Food so Readers Can Experience Your Stories Grace Hwang Lynch
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Learn about food writing in memoir and fiction w/ my webinar Taste and See Thursday 9/24 writingcraft.com/event/taste-... @crafttalks.bsky.social
Blue background with 2 pencils and text: Taste and See Using Food So Readers Can Experience Your Stories Grace Hwang Lynch
Light aqua background with quote “Some stories are too complicated to be told with just words. They must be simmered and served up through the metaphors that food can bring to the page.” Grace Hwang Lynch
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Looking forward to talking w @mayleechai.bsky.social abt her hungry ghosts 📙
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
What a great day to enjoy literature outside in San Francisco!
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
there’s a free screening of MEALS THAT MADE US on Sunday at J-Sei. RSVP here j-sei.org/sunday-funda...
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Sunday Funday with a screening of “Meals That Made Us” | J-Sei
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Thank you @gilasakawa.bsky.social author of TABEMASHO! LET’S EAT for this great review of my memoir HOW TO COOK RICE: On the Care and Feeding of an Immigrant Family
Yellow graphic with quote “A wonderfully engaging narrative journey of a memoir, that defines and celebrates what it means to be Asian American and have rich cultural ties to our families’ homeland… This is a five-star, delicious read”
Pre-Order Today HOW TO COOK RICE. For fans of CRYING 
IN H MART and TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
My book HOW TO COOK RICE is an immigrant story and also a GenX one Advance praise from author @mayleechai
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Sharing some blurbs for my book, starting with one from Charles Yu
Pale green graphic with the quote “A story of food and language and history, a specific story about Taiwanese immigrants and a universal one about family and culture and love” Charles Yu, National Book Award winning author of interior Chinatown
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Preorder my memoir HOW TO COOK RICE: ON THE CARE AND FEEDING OF AN IMMIGRANT FAMILY amzn.to/4oUpcIp
Book cover showing white rice cooker in front of a window with apricot and lemon trees and the words HOW TO COOK RICE by Grace Hwang Lynch
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
My memoir HOW TO COOK RICE is on preorder at @barnesandnoble.com Use code PREORDER25 thru 6/26 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/how-to-coo...
Screenshot of Barnes & Noble website showing book cover with a white rice cooker and text How to Cook Rice
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Britt Bravo @bbravo.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Is writing part of your 2026 resolution? Check out this interview about storytelling and the power of narrative arcs by @elisacp.bsky.social of Optionality with eunicebrownlee.bsky.social, @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social, jentheeditor.bsky.social, and me! optionalitylife.substack.com/p/deep-dive-...
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Thanks, Luke!
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
My food memoir-in-essays HOW TO COOK RICE will be published with Regalo Press!
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Call me Auntie Grace
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
NBC shuts down Asian, Black, and Latino verticals - www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-lay...
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NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams
The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Is schnitzel having a moment? I've seen it on 2 menus this week (and I'm not mad)
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
They have all learned that hearing voices doesn’t mean people are visiting
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I'm finally crawling out of the wormhole that is THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY. What do we think about the portrayal of mixed-race Asians on the series? Here's why I think it's more Asian that people realize... open.substack.com/pub/gracehwa...
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
I really envy his metabolism! 🥟🍕🥟
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Oooh… I have some news to share soon that is both exciting and slightly terrifying!
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Was inspired to make lo bah png - Taiwanese braised pork rice (lu ruo fan in Mandarin) and my family wasn’t mad.
Red bowl of homemade Taiwanese braised pork rice called Lo bah png in Taiwanese Hokkien or Lu ruo fan in Mandarin
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Read more about why I am leaning to look forward to getting old… I’d really love if you could subscribe to Small Bites on Substack open.substack.com/pub/gracehwa...
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More Who You Really Are
My shopping trip was a bust, but I snagged something much better
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
It’s my birth month! Here’s a story about how I attempted to buy myself a treat, and what I received instead.
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Thanks, Betty!
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Here's a step-by-step video, in case you're interested in learning how to make ba tsang (zong zi) hapamama.com/how-to-fold-...
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How to Fold Taiwanese Bah Tsang, With a Video Tutorial
Watch my video de-mystifying the process of folding a bah tsang to get the perfect tetrahedron shape and also get the recipe and step-by-step photo directions.
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Happy ba tsang day to those who celebrate! I make these every year to make sure I don’t lose the muscle memory for wrapping them. 🐉
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
As usual, @wendiaarons.bsky.social speaking middle aged truth!
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I don’t care what everyone else is saying about you, @bsky.app I still like you 🦋
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Yes.
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
So many of my friends’ kids are going into filmmaking, creative writing, journalism. It’s so different than we were in college, and everyone was engineering and pre-med
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
This warms my heart. And also terrifies me.
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Ouch
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Now I need to go to Japan so I can eat Taiwan ramen 🍜
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Let’s uplift books about regular Taiwanese Americans for Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month open.substack.com/pub/gracehwa...
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Putting the Taiwanese Americans in AAPI Heritage Month
Books and Asian American food memories that are extraordinary because they make everyday experiences beautiful
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Thoughts on what's the best time of the summer to visit #Taiwan ?
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I’ve learned how to sleep through the night again! Tips, in my next Small Bites newsletter. Subscribe here… open.substack.com/pub/gracehwa...
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Small Bites | Grace Hwang Lynch | Substack
Tidbits of what I'm eating and what I'm reading, seen through the eyes of a Taiwanese American mom and daughter. Click to read Small Bites, by Grace Hwang Lynch, a Substack publication with hundreds o...
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Today is Qing Ming, a festival honoring loved ones who have passed. I finally got to learn how to make this special mugwort rice dumpling from Henry Hsu of Oramasama. 🌱
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Been enjoying everyone's #AWP posts from the comfort of my own home. Hope to see you all in Baltimore next year!
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I remember that from every #AWP I've been to! Take care of yourself
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
And I've spent another couple hours futzing with Wayback Machine but can't quite figure out how to download a webpage as a pdf
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Friendly reminder to #writers: Remember to download your online articles as pdfs. I just spent an hour downloading a bunch of stuff and now figuring out how to upload them to my website
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Were you a speech and debate kid? An Antiques Roadshow fan? Love this backstory on Thomas Moser
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Remembering Thomas Moser, the debate coach turned world-renowned furniture maker
A master craftsman of fine furniture and former Bates faculty member and director of debate, Thomas Moser, who died March 5 at the age of 90.
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
That is my rough understanding
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
One woman cooked squid porridge for her husband before he was disappeared by KMT. So every year on March 10 squid porridge is eaten in remembrance
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I’m addicted to a Pilates cult, so I won’t throw stones
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
It was so homey and delicious!
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Great that you’re plugged into a fitness community!
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