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Non-Fiction
The Golden Hour: Recipes and Stories from a Chinese-American Restaurant
Publication Date: March 21, 2025
Available at Amazon.
This book encompasses recipes and stories about growing up in my
parent's Chinese-American restaurant. The 155 recipes are
contextualized with stories. The recipes include not only the
dinners served to its paying customers but also the dishes
served to the staff. The customers ordered the traditional
dishes famously depicted in the media in the sixties through the
eighties. From films like A Christmas Story and With Six you Get
Eggroll to the stereotypical meal for hardworking folk who are
depicted having a quick meal replete with chopsticks protruding
from the food pail, these Chinese dishes are recognized by
anyone who has eaten in any of these Americanized restaurants.
Recipes include the Americanized versions of Egg Foo Young, Chow
Mein, Sweet and Sour Pork, etc.
In addition, the book includes recipes of what Dad fixed for his
staff to eat. These authentic dishes include dishes like Jook,
Pig's Ears, and post-partum fares like Whiskey, Chicken, and
Wood Ear Soup, and the delectable Pig's Feet, Ginger, and
Vinegar Soup.
The book will appeal to anyone who has eaten in one of the ten
thousand Chinese-American restaurant that were ubiquitous
throughout the USA. My parents' and uncles and aunt's
establishment was located in the small town of Turlock,
California which is in the Central Valley. It was typical of the
genre of restaurant. I grew up washing dishes along with my
siblings and cousins.
The book is illustrated with old photographs. (75,589 words)
For Teachers:
Online Learning for Low-Tech Teachers
During the pandemic, I self-published a book regarding
online teaching with my friend, Ron Vincent. It is is available at
Amazon.
Literary Fiction
I have completed a speculative trilogy revolving around a
central question: What if Jesus had been born in the modern
world? The first book is entitled
The J Genome. This
volume recounts how Jesus came to be cloned. It explicates the
circumstances from Jesus' crucifixion, how his DNA was
preserved, and how his clone, Janus came to be born. The
protagonists are a young female, Asian-American seminarian and
an older Irish priest. Together they bring about the birth of
Jesus' clone. (87,520 words)
Sample
The second book,
The J Genesis portrays the life of Janus
from birth, his education, his maturation into adulthood, and
the events that caused his death. The life of Janus parallels
the life led by the original possessor of his DNA. The novel
ponders the question about the kind of person Jesus would be
today. (77,255 words)
Sample
The third volume is called,
The J Generation. This book
projects the aftermath of the death of Janus. The clone of Jesus
disappears after his death.
Again, the world is confronted with the effects of the
remarkable life of an extraordinary person.
Does the world form a new religion or was Janus merely a good
person? (51,937 words)
Sample
Seeking
agent/publisher for my fictional work.
Fourth Novel:
Infliction of the Heart (in process)
Contact:
raygen@gmail.com
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Teaching & Education
Experiences I
retired from a teaching career after having taught for 40 years.
I began teaching at Fuller Theological Seminary where I taught
Koine Greek while I pursued a doctoral degree.
In 1991 I started teaching
English at El Segundo High School. I became a Curriculum Specialist
- Educational Technology for El
Segundo Unified School District and taught English, Computer Science, and Social
Studies courses. I served on many committees including the
district's technology committee and the English curriculum
committee. Ray also pioneered online course for the ADTECH Virtual
Academy. I earned an Ed.D. at Pepperdine University in 2001. I retired from the El Segundo District
in 2022 after teaching for 30
years.
I also taught as an Adjunct Professor for a number of
universities including Loyola Marymount University for 17 years, Pepperdine
University for over 10 years, Chapman University, and Azusa
Pacific.
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