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  • Archive for December 25th, 2007

    Christmas, Chinese food and a movie: An American Jewish Tradition

    Tuesday, December 25th, 2007

    Today is Christmas, which is the single busiest day for some Chinese restaurants in the whole year (in New York, Miami, parts of LA and San Francisco) — driven by the Jews. At Manhattan’s Upper West Side Shun Lee, for example, it is twice as busy as the next busiest day. Arguably, it’s as […]

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    Tuesday, December 25th, 2007

    My friend, Tim Layman, sent me an e-mail with the subject line “amazon.com” and the body “Why can you buy ‘I Love Jennifer 8. Lee’ t-shirts from there?”
    I was like, what are you talking about?
    He wrote back: “went on Amazon to look up your book but I searched for “Jennifer 8 Lee” instead of ‘Fortune […]