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...More than just trivia, Lee's book explores how Chinese-American cuisine was the commercially expedient invention of migrants, who devised new dishes - or adapted recipes from their homeland - in order to cater to American tastes. The sweet and spicy Chinatown classic, General Tso's Chicken, is one such creation, which Lee attempts to trace to the Qing dynasty general's hometown in Hunan province, only to be told that no one has heard of the dish (although a local official thinks the association would be a great way to generate tourism). But just as the demographics of America have...
...Exploring that bifurcation is the business of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles by New York Times reporter Jennifer 8. Lee (whose curious middle name, 8., is a pun on the Chinese word for prosperity). A Chinese-American from New York City, Lee had her interest in Chinese food piqued during a year spent studying in Beijing, where she was continuously reminded that the real cuisine was nothing like the deep-fried, sauce-coated dishes U.S. diners thought of as Chinese. Chinese food in China, she knew, was much healthier, with less sodium and grease (and more varied animal parts) than Americans...
...conditions experienced by the new multicultural labor forces are beyond Lee's remit, but her inquiries into Chinese restaurant workers in America make up some of the strongest writing in the book. Many were lured to America when China did not provide the opportunities it does now, and large numbers of them have willingly participated in a vast people-smuggling network, paying fees that can leave them with crippling debt for years...
...great majority of America's Chinese restaurant workers hail from Fujian province, which Lee visits. In one village, Houyu, she finds that more than three-quarters of the village population has left to work in restaurants in the U.S. One school even teaches "restaurant English" to students hoping to go abroad. Once in the U.S., Lee explains, many Chinese restaurant workers pass through New York City's Chinatown, where employment agencies field calls from Chinese restaurants around the country and send workers onto buses with scraps of paper bearing three numbers like this: "$2,400, 440 near Cleveland, 10 hours...
...daughter deal with being on a waitlist or any other issues around getting into college, including identifying others who might be able to help. But you essentially suggest that parents should provide their private financial information, pay the bill and let their children run amok unguided. Perhaps Jeninne Lee-St. John should consider how many of these students got to the point that they were even on those waiting lists. Behind many of them is a parent that is involved. Thomas DeVaul, PEEKSKILL...