15 Quotes by Nicole Mones

Great food needed more than chefs; it needed gourmet diners.

An inch of gold can't buy an inch of time

But I get frightened sometimes," she admitted."I know. Fear is only fear, though.""And somehow you live without it.""No," he corrected her. "You live with it.

Everything looks different. The houses are all these wild colors. The light is strange. It smells primeval. You're on Mars.""You are talking about driving?" Lin attempted to clarify."About wanderlust," she answered.

Chinese food tries to engage the mind, not just the palate. To provoke the intellect.

Food is the main engine that drives connectedness, relationship in Chinese society.

You can't portray wartime Shanghai without writing about the Holocaust - about 25,000 Jews survived the Nazi death machine by taking refuge there.

Both the nationalists and the communists disapproved of jazz and feared it. They thought it would weaken people's resolve to fight off the invasion. And most Americans know, China did ban all Western music for about 30 years, starting in 1949. This is where it started.

Even though Japan and Germany were not formal allies at the time that Japan conquered Shanghai in 1937, still, Frenchtown was an area that Japan could take complete control of - and they did. And it was the locus of nightlife.