When Jennifer 8. Lee was in seventh grade, she made a startling discovery — fortune cookies are not an authentic Chinese food. In her New York Times best-selling book, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, Lee wrote about the experience, “It was like learning I was adopted while being told there was no Santa Claus.”
Born in the United States of Chinese immigrant parents, Lee confesses she is obsessed with Chinese food, in particular with the Chinese-American variety. The book is for anyone who wonders who General Tso is and why we eat his chicken, or where those white takeout boxes come from.
Author of ‘The Fortune Cookie Chronicles’ dishes on Chinese American food: IU News Room: Indiana University
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