Quick post. A few years ago, I stumbled across an interesting book called The Fortune Cookie Chronicles written by Jennifer 8 Lee. Although not a complete and comprehensive history of the subject, this interesting work includes a lot of interesting insights and vignettes about the history of Chinese food (or Chinese-American food) in the USA. The author is a Chinese American journalist with a long interest in subject and experience writing for The New York Times.
The author, Jennifer 8 Lee, has also given an excellent Ted Talk on the truth and fiction of Chinese and Chinese American food as well as Chinese food around the globe today. It's fun and informative.
But it's her documentary, The Search for General Tso's Chicken, where the history of Chinese food in the USA and of this one dish in particular begin to come to light. Definitely worth watching if you are interested in history and the interaction of two cultures over a period of almost two centuries, and if you like Chinese food, well, it's a must see.
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