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The fortune cookie chronicles: adventures in the world of Chinese food

By Lee , Jennifer 8

Book information

Publisher
Grand Central Publishing;Twelve
Year
2008
ISBN
9780446511704, 0446511706, 9780446592666, 0446592668
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
651 kB (667028 bytes)
Edition
First edition
Pages
x, 307 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Chinese Americans--Social life and customs;ChineseChinese;COOKING--General;Food habits;Food habits--

Description

"A woman's search for the world's greatest Chinese restaurant proves that egg rolls are as American as apple pie"--Provided by publisher.;March 30, 2005 -- American-born Chinese -- The menu wars -- A cookie wrapped in mystery inside an enigma -- The biggest culinary joke played by one culture on another -- The long march of General Tso -- The bean sprout people are in the same boat we are -- Why chow mein is the chosen food of the chosen people, or, The kosher duck scandal of 1989 -- The Golden Venture: restaurant workers to go -- Take-out takeaways -- The oldest surviving fortune cookies in the world? -- The mystery of the missing Chinese deliveryman -- The soy sauce trade dispute -- Waizhou, U.S.A. -- The greatest Chinese restaurant in the world -- American stir-fry -- Tsujiura Senbei -- Open-source Chinese restaurants -- So what did Confucius really say?

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