{"id":2486,"date":"2009-05-02T07:20:08","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T12:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/?p=2486"},"modified":"2009-05-02T07:20:08","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T12:20:08","slug":"fortune-cookie-chronicles-appears-on-nytbr-paperback-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/02\/fortune-cookie-chronicles-appears-on-nytbr-paperback-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortune Cookie Chronicles Appears on NYTBR Paperback Row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/03\/books\/review\/PaperRow-t.html\">New York Times this Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>THE FORTUNE COOKIE CHRONICLES: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food,  by Jennifer 8. Lee. (Twelve, $13.)  An American-born Chinese (and a New York Times reporter), Lee investigates the Chinese restaurant business \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the origin of fortune cookies (Japan), the beginning of door-to-door delivery in New York, the relationship of General Tso to the dish that bears his name. She also looks at the difficult lives of Chinese restaurant workers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Other books that are in paperback now: Bonk by Mary Roach, and &#8220;BUSH\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S LAW: The Remaking of American Justice&#8221; by Eric Lichtblau. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The New York Times this Sunday. THE FORTUNE COOKIE CHRONICLES: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food, by Jennifer 8. Lee. (Twelve, $13.) An American-born Chinese (and a New York Times reporter), Lee investigates the Chinese restaurant business \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the origin of fortune cookies (Japan), the beginning of door-to-door delivery in New York, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,115],"class_list":["post-2486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-musings","tag-new-york-times-book-review","tag-paperback"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-E6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2487,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions\/2487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}