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The Fortune Cookie Chronicles

Jennifer 8. Lee
Hachette Book Groups (2009)
ISBN 9780446698979
Reviewed by Alberta Chapman for RebeccasReads (7/09) 


“The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, Adventures in the World of Chinese Food”  by Jennifer 8. Lee is an interesting compilation of facts about Chinese food and cuisine. The author also ties in other Oriental food facts as well.
The book starts at an odd Powerball win, due to numbers used from fortune cookies and follows the cookie back to its origins. Along the way she gets into the food and American heritage of oriental peoples, their cultures, and their struggles in their new country. The stories of many Asian families are included,  from personal travails to be faced in this country to internment camps. There is information included about the kosher connection and the scandal in New York with the Moshe Dragon Restaurant.

This book contains many interesting and probably little known facts divulged in story-like chapters, leading indisputably to the fact that we do not know as much as we think we do about Chinese Food. Each chapter takes the facts the author learned in researching the book and tells the story of how and where she learned it and who she learned it from. She covers from their immigration, through their struggles to make a life to present day and how food was a large part of their existence.

“ The Fortune Cookie Chronicles” is a very interesting book describing the Amer-Asian community. Reading it could bring more understanding to those not of that community. We could use more books that bring understanding of a peoples struggle to find their dream in this country, maybe it would curb others harsh judgments.

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