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Fortune Cookie Chronicles, a catalyst for love?
Saturday, April 12th, 2008This is the most adorable fan mail a writer could have hoped to get.
My girlfriend and I love you. You were actually part of the reason we ended
up a couple and The Fortune Cookie Chronicles was one of the first gifts we
bought each other.
He promised to tell me the story another time. (I’m very curious). […]
Washpost: Where Lee really shines, though, is in describing the people who have cooked, served and delivered America’s favorite cuisine
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008Christine Y. Chen writes a lovely review in The Washington Post (so she too is not excited about the round-the-world chapter).
So now The Fortune Cookie Chronicles have been reviewed by all the major papers (+ the AP!) except The Wall Street Journal…which I doubt would review it anyway (and we haven’t heard any rumblings […]
My first reported airplane sighting…
Monday, April 7th, 2008An email from a friend, Dan Rosenheck. I’ve had subway/BART/commuter transit sightings before, but this is new. Yay.
I’m sitting down at JFK next to this girl who’s flying down to Buenos Aires…and she’s ripping open a copy of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles! She said she got it because she’s a fan of your work in […]
A childhood of Chinese moms and dessert struggles
Sunday, February 24th, 2008In my Food and Wine piece, I talk about how desserts totally mystified my family growing up — specifically these “bake sales.” Then I got a note from Patricia Ryan telling a sweet but sad story of her mother struggling with making desserts in her childhood.
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