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12 Apr Jennifer 8 Lee’s TED Talks video explaining how most “Chinese” food we know is American, not Chinese

Posted at 15:28h in asian american, food & dining, pop culture by

Jennifer 8 Lee, a NYT reporter who wrote a wonderful book about the origins of Chinese food (specifically the fortune cookie, which is Japanese, not Chinese) called “The Fortune Cookie Chronicles,” wrote a HuffingtonPost piece about the way Asian cuisines fuse with American tastes. The essay is worth a read, and the 16-minute video about Chinese food is definitely worth watching.

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