[Download pdf ebook] Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States
• Andrew Coe •
| #649876 in Books | 2009-07-16 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.60 x1.20 x8.30l,1.05 | File Name: 0195331079 | 320 pages
||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Astronomical gastronomy|By HH|Despite the book's subtitle, “A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States”, Coe doesn't begin discussing Chinese food in the U.S. till the fourth chapter! Chapter 1 begins with the first American diplomatic expedition to China in 1784. While the chapter deftly touches on early European views of Chinese food (mostly curiosit|From Publishers Weekly|According to food writer Coe, America's taste for Chinese tea goes back more than two centuries, and so does our confusion about the use of chopsticks. In this brief but ambitious volume, he chronicles the back-and-forth story of our rela
In 1784, passengers on the ship Empress of China became the first Americans to land in China, and the first to eat Chinese food. Today there are over 40,000 Chinese restaurants across the United States--by far the most plentiful among all our ethnic eateries. Now, in Chop Suey Andrew Coe provides the authoritative history of the American infatuation with Chinese food, telling its fascinating story for the first time.
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