Archive for January 9th, 2011
Tracking Chinese restaurants, chop suey and fortune cookies over the last two centuries via Google books
Sunday, January 9th, 2011This ngram is a broad metric of the concepts in Google books, and the dates generally track with my research: "chop suey" jumping around 1896, "fortune cookies" surging after World War II, and "Chinese restaurants" making an appearance in 1860, around the beginnings of the first waves of Chinese immigration. Â " Notice how "Chinese restaurants" […]
General Tso’s Soy Protein, from Wild Ginger in Williamsburg
Sunday, January 9th, 2011Yummy? Or not.