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Archive for June, 2009

Not from around here: one story of a Chinese immigrant family working in the restaurant business

A couple of months ago, I mentioned Jennifer 8. Lee’s book The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food, and included an excerpt about how very American it is to eat Chinese food. Chinese immigrants make up an enormous portion of the US Asian population; even so, I never really understood the [...]

June 11th, 2009