Cathy Bao Bean, author of The Chopsticks-Fork Principle, A Memoir and Manual, is a daughter, mother, wife, friend, sister, aerobics instructor, business manager, and board member of the Claremont Graduate University School of the Arts and Humanities, the NJ Council for the Humanities and Society for Values in Higher Education.  In a previous incarnation, she was a philosophy teacher, cook, student, carpool driver as well as founding member of the Ridge and Valley Conservancy.

In the process, she has been learning how to make the "foreign" more familiar and the ordinary and extraordinary into each other.

None of it has been painless.  All of it has been fun, except the cooking.

Articles and Reviews on the Web

• A RebeccaReads.com Review by Rebecca Brown

• Epoch Times article (in Chinese)

• Daijuan.com article (in Chinese)

To read an excerpt from The Chopsticks-Fork Principle printed in the Asians in America Magazine, please click here.

Click here to read a profile of Cathy on the Claremont Graduate University web site.

Click here to read the Wikipedia article about Cathy Bao Bean.

Programs, Workshops, and Book Signings

 As philosopher, writer, and educational consultant, Cathy Bao Bean has presented a wide range of programs throughout the United States.

Cathy welcomes the opportunity to speak at libraries, book stores, schools, and other organizations. To contact the author for personal appearances, please call : 908-852-7426 or submit a request by email.