Award Recognition & Visual Storytelling
“Grandpa David’s Birthday Tea Party,” photographed during this journey, was shortlisted for the prestigious World Food® Food Photographer of the Year—Food for the Family Award, demonstrating how visual storytelling can capture the deeper narratives of domestic transformation.
The Deeper Message
This isn’t a cookbook or travel guide—it’s a methodology for recognizing how women worldwide are quietly revolutionizing society, one meal, one conversation, one welcomed stranger at a time. Each story reveals practical strategies for turning everyday limitations into extraordinary opportunities, making this essential reading for anyone seeking to understand contemporary feminism through the lens of cultural anthropology.
Available throughout the Chinese-speaking world
Women and The Table They Set
What happens when you move beyond asking women if they can cook, and start asking how they transform the ancient fire of the kitchen into fuel for their dreams?
Inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper”—where twelve men dine while women remain invisible in the background—this book flips the narrative. Instead of observing from the margins, I invited myself into the dining rooms of twelve extraordinary European women to discover how they’ve converted domestic spaces into stages of personal revolution.
The Adventure: 28,936 Miles, 365 Days, 12 Revolutionary Stories
From the lavender fields of Provence to the fjords of Denmark, from London’s historic boroughs to Barcelona’s vibrant neighborhoods, I embarked on a year-long pilgrimage across Europe. My mission: to understand how contemporary women transform the traditional concept of “cooking” from mere survival skill into creative force.
The Chinese character “煮” reveals this transformation perfectly—a person positioned above fire, symbolizing not just sustenance, but the advancement of civilization itself. These women weren’t just feeding families; they were feeding movements, businesses, art, and social change.
Through intimate conversations around dining tables in France, Denmark, England, Italy, and Spain, I documented how each woman had developed her unique strategy for:
• Converting sensitivity into creativity
• Transforming sensibility into glamour
• Using domestic spaces as laboratories for life design
• Building confidence in traditional roles while redefining them.
True Colors of Yosifu—A Journey in Artistic Expression
Recognized with the highest honor, the National Golden Tripod Award for Publications.
What does it take for an artist raised on the margins to paint the soul of a culture? True Colors of Yosifu—A Journey in Artistic Expression, awarded the National Golden Tripod Award, explores this question through the first half of Yosifu’s life.
Drawing on my decade of art advocacy and sustainability work in Europe, the book follows Yosifu from a community mural project in rural Sweden to a solo exhibition in Taipei. It calls for respect—and justice—for Indigenous peoples and invites all minorities to embrace their unique struggles.
Readers will learn how art becomes a catalyst for social justice and personal transformation. True Colors of Yosifu reveals how authenticity—and courage—can reshape both canvas and community.