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...book is at its weakest during Lee's ill-conceived - and entirely gratuitous - quest to discover the world's greatest Chinese restaurant outside greater China. The restaurant reviews clash with the rest of the book's anthropological depth, and Lee's search is maddeningly shallow. (Just one restaurant in Paris?) By the end of this chapter, most readers won't care which restaurant won the title...
...rest of the book is crafted with care, and its many revelations will force readers to consider the often strange routes their favorite dishes - authentic or not - took to the plate. And if you, like me, were puzzled by the origin of the fortune cookie, well, that's understandable. Lee discovers that the first fortune cookies came from Japan, where they are called tsujiura senbei. Japanese-Americans sold them in the U.S. until they were forced into internment camps during World War II. That's when Chinese restaurateurs started handing them out instead. Chinese-American cooking is all about opportunity...
...equally appalling, while people are dying in the wake of the cyclone, to slow the arrival of relief workers. It's too bad Burma has no oil. If it did, I'd bet America and its allies would find a way to solve the problem. John C.M. Lee, Hong Kong...
...long primary process has tired both Obama and Clinton supporters. What are some steps you plan on taking to defuse the bitterness between these two camps? Minjae Lee, HAWORTH...
...headed to the office of Democratic Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, who talked about herself for two minutes, mentioned Alzheimer's and took a photo with the kids. The lobbying, it seemed, was up to me. I followed Jackson Lee as she went to a House vote and told her how super-awesome after-school programs are. She suggested I lay off the happy stories: "We only get moved by tragedy. " I regretted not pushing harder on the urchin look...