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The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
By M&C News Mar 2, 2008, 12:06 GMT
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food is the latest book by Jennifer 8. Lee.
According to a recent review with the AP, “Lee's inquiries into the cultural and historical phenomena behind Chinese food and its amazing spread around the world are so fascinating that anyone who has ever eaten a single egg roll should read her book,” the reviewer noted.
According to Publishers Weekly, “There are satisfying minihistories on the relationship between Jews and Chinese food and a biography of the real General Tso, but Lee also pries open factoids and tidbits of American culture that eventually touch on large social and cultural subjects such as identity, immigration and nutrition. Copious research backs her many lively anecdotes, and being American-born Chinese yet willing to scrutinize herself as much as her objectives, she wins the reader over. Like the numbers on those lottery fortunes, the book's a winner.”
Read the AP review here.
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