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The fortune cookie chronicles : adventures in the world of Chinese food
- Title
- The fortune cookie chronicles : adventures in the world of Chinese food / Jennifer 8. Lee.
- Author
- Lee, Jennifer 8., 1976-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Twelve, 2008.
- Supplementary Content
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | TX945.4 .L44 2008 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 307 pages; 24 cm
- 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.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-307).
- Contents
- Prologue: March 30, 2005 -- Chapter 1. American-Born Chinese -- Chapter 2. The Menu Wars -- Chapter 3. A Cookie Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma -- Chapter 4. The Biggest Culinary Joke Played by One Culture on Another -- Chapter 5. The Long March of General Tso -- Chapter 6. The Bean Sprout People Are in the Same Boat We Are -- Chapter 7. Why Chow Mein Is the Chosen Food of the Chosen People-or, The Kosher Duck Scandal of 1989 -- Chapter 8. The Golden Venture: Restaurant Workers to Go -- Chapter 9. Take-out Takeaways -- Chapter 10. The Oldest Surviving Fortune Cookies in the World? -- Chapter 11. The Mystery of the Missing Chinese Deliveryman -- Chapter 12. The Soy Sauce Trade Dispute -- Chapter 13. Waizhou, U.S.A. -- Chapter 14. The Greatest Chinese Restaurant in the World -- Chapter 15. American Stir-fry -- Chapter 16. Tsujiura Senbei -- Chapter 17. Open-Source Chinese Restaurants -- Chapter 18. So What Did Confucius Really Say?
- ISBN
- 9780446580076
- 0446580074
- LCCN
- 2007033432
- 40015233199
- OCLC
- 165082896
- ocn165082896
- SCSB-5397831
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries