{"id":2844,"date":"2009-12-21T15:14:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T20:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/?p=2844"},"modified":"2009-12-21T15:14:11","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T20:14:11","slug":"twas-the-night-before-chrismas-and-jews-were-looking-forward-to-chinese-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/21\/twas-the-night-before-chrismas-and-jews-were-looking-forward-to-chinese-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Twas the Night Before Chrismas and Jews were Looking Forward to Chinese Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Moment Magazine runs an interesting and insightful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.momentmag.com\/Exclusive\/2009\/2009-12\/200912-Talk_of_the_Table.html\">interview with Andrew Coe<\/a>, author of &#8220;Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States,&#8221; about Jews and Chinese food.<\/p>\n<p>The introductory poem, by Nonna Gorilovskaya, is great.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Twas the night before Christmas and there was hardly a sound,<br \/>\nAs Jews jumped in their cars and drove to Chinatown.<br \/>\nTheir orders were given to waiters with care,<br \/>\nIn hopes that wonton soup soon would be there. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The children finished their noodles and nestled in their beds,<br \/>\nWhile visions of fortune cookies danced in their heads.<br \/>\nNow, Moment takes an inquiring look,<br \/>\nAt how this love affair with Chinese food took.\u00e2\u20ac\u201dNG <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I gave a fun talk at the 92nd Street Y on Jews and Chinese food last night, which included kosher General Tso&#8217;s chicken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Moment Magazine runs an interesting and insightful interview with Andrew Coe, author of &#8220;Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States,&#8221; about Jews and Chinese food. The introductory poem, by Nonna Gorilovskaya, is great. Twas the night before Christmas and there was hardly a sound, As Jews jumped in their [&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":[38],"tags":[199],"class_list":["post-2844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jews","tag-jews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-JS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844","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=2844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2845,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions\/2845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}