The fortune cookie chronicles: adventures in the world of Chinese food
Jennifer 8. Lee
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Publication:
- New York, NY : Twelve, 2008
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- 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.
- Table of 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?
- Author/Creator:
- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
- Subjects:
- General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-307).
- Physical Description:
- x, 307 pages ; 24 cm
- Call Numbers:
- TX945.4 .L44 2008
- ISBNs:
- 9780446580076
0446580074 - Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2007033432
- OCLC Numbers:
- 165082896