{"id":3353,"date":"2011-03-10T22:08:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T03:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/?p=3353"},"modified":"2012-01-18T17:14:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T22:14:42","slug":"smithsonians-sweet-and-sour-chinese-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/10\/smithsonians-sweet-and-sour-chinese-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Smithsonian&#8217;s Sweet and Sour Chinese Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/smithsonian-sweet-and-sour.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3354\" title=\"smithsonian-sweet-and-sour\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/smithsonian-sweet-and-sour.jpg\" alt=\"smithsonian-sweet-and-sour\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/smithsonian-sweet-and-sour.jpg 750w, http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/smithsonian-sweet-and-sour-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Smithsonian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s National Museum of American History is presenting <a href=\"http:\/\/apanews.si.edu\/2011\/03\/04\/sweet-and-sour-showcase\/\"> a Chinese American display, Sweet &amp; Sour<\/a>, opening March 17, 2011 (two days after my birthday!) in the lobby. I helped a bit with linking them together with the items, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/09\/historic-fortune-cookie-grills-donated-to-the-smithsonian\/\">the original Japanese kata<\/a> that were used to grill some of the first fortune cookies in America.<\/p>\n<p>The project brings together many Chinese restaurant-related objects ranging from menus, restaurant signs, and cooking tools.  Well worth a stop! The museum is located at 4th Street and Constitution Ave, NW<br \/>\nWashington, DC 20004.<\/p>\n<p>More from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/english\/news\/asia\/Sweet--Sour-Smithsonian-Celebrates-History-of-Chinese-American-Food-120141379.html\">Voice of America.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Smithsonian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s National Museum of American History is presenting a Chinese American display, Sweet &amp; Sour, opening March 17, 2011 (two days after my birthday!) in the lobby. I helped a bit with linking them together with the items, including the original Japanese kata that were used to grill some of the first fortune cookies [&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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-S5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353","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=3353"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3406,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions\/3406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}