The fortune cookie chronicles : adventures in the world of Chinese food / Jennifer 8. Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Jennifer 8., 1976-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese restaurants--United States.

Chinese restaurants.

Food in popular culture--United States.

Food in popular culture.

Food in popular culture--China.

Cooking, Chinese.

Food habits--United States.

Food habits.

Chinese Americans--Social life and customs.

Chinese Americans.

United States.

Gastronomy.

China.

Physical Description:

x, 307 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Twelve, 2008.

Summary:

"A woman's search for the world's greatest Chinese restaurant proves that egg rolls are as American as apple pie"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-307).

Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature - Adult Nonfiction, Winner, 2008-2009

ISBN:

9780446580076

0446580074

0446698970

9780446698979

OCLC:

165082896

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