Welcome to To Eat, Perchance to Stream for January, 2019. It’s not until February this year, but we will be celebrating some tasty streams related to food from places that celebrate Lunar New Year.

In 1966, Boston’s public television station produced two groundbreaking TV shows in the same studio. One was Julia Child’s “The French Chef.” The other was “Cooking with Joyce Chen.” A half-century ...

Before food television became big business, two local women changed the way America ate and cooked. The first appearance of Housekeeper’s Column, which editor Estelle Hatch would make into the first ...

Click to open image viewer. “Cooking is an art—an unselfish art which you will enjoy sharing with others,” wrote Joyce Chen (1917–1994), one of America’s greatest popularizers of Chinese food. From ...