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  • Archive for November 29th, 2007

    My first review: Starred, from Publishers Weekly

    Thursday, November 29th, 2007

    My agent, Larry Weissman, sent me my review in Publishers Weekly (scroll 1/3 of the way down), which is out today :
    * The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
    Jennifer 8. Lee. Hachette/Twelve,
    $24.99 (308p) ISBN 978-0-446-58007-6
    Readers will take an unexpected and entertaining journey—through culinary, social and cultural history—in this delightful first […]

    Maybe she really really liked their crispy shredded beef?

    Thursday, November 29th, 2007

    A British millionaireness who died and left her $20 million fortune to her favorite Chinese restaurant owners is now having her will challenged in court by her surviving relatives.
    Golda “Goldie” Bechal died aged 89 in January 2004, leaving the bulk of her estate to her friends Kim Sing Man and his wife Bee Lian […]