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The fortune cookie chronicles : adventures in the world of Chinese food
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"A woman's search for the world's greatest Chinese restaurant proves that egg rolls are as American as apple pie"--Provided by publisher.
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- Creator
- Jennifer 8. Lee
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York, NY : Twelve, 2008
- Physical Details
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- x, 307 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780446580076, 0446580074
- OCLC
- ocn165082896
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-307).
- 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?