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Hardcover Chow Chop Suey: Food and the Chinese American Journey Book

ISBN: 0231158602

ISBN13: 9780231158602

Chow Chop Suey: Food and the Chinese American Journey

(Part of the Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History Series)

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Chinese food first became popular in America under the shadow of violence against Chinese aliens, a despised racial minority ineligible for United States citizenship. The founding of late-nineteenth-century "chop suey" restaurants that pitched an altered version of Cantonese cuisine to white patrons despite a virulently anti-Chinese climate is one of several pivotal events in Anne Mendelson's thoughtful history of American Chinese food. Chow...

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