Chinese food followed a global trajectory from obscurity to ubiquity, says scholar and James Beard Award-winning author Fuchsia Dunlop.Dedicating the better part of her life to the study of the ...

A Very Brief History of Chinese Food in America. 7 minute read. A Chinese restaurant in San Francisco, circa 1880. Underwood Archives / Getty Images. By Emelyn Rude. February 8, 2016 12:00 PM EST.

General Tso's Chicken. | The Culinary Geek, Flickr // CC by 2.0 The dish’s inventor had been a chef for the Chinese Nationalist government, and he fled to Taiwan with his employers following the ...

Fuchsia Dunlop distills the history of Chinese food through a menu of 30 dishes. Kevin and Jeffrey Pang cook up some father-son bonding over plates of Mongolian beef and General Tso's chicken. Marc ...

She makes the interesting point that Chinese food would almost certainly be as revered now as the cuisines of Spain, France, Italy and California had not Mao, during the Cultural Revolution of the ...

So this was your grounding. But then you pursued your interest in more detail. Was it here that the second book, KC Chang's Food in Chinese Culture, came into its own? This is more of an academic ...

How Peter Chang made Chinese cuisine history in the DC region All throughout May, WTOP is celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with stories about the people and places ...

The history of Jews, Chinese food, and Christmas, explained by a rabbi. In the US, Jews have been eating American Chinese food on Christmas for over 100 years. by Jamie Lauren Keiles.

Taiwan has endured a long history of colonization. As a trip to the culinary center of Tainan reveals, those outside forces have helped create a cuisine that is distinctly Taiwanese.