{"id":790,"date":"2008-04-12T15:47:54","date_gmt":"2008-04-12T20:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/12\/fortune-cookie-chronicles-on-cnn-with-lola-ogunnaike-and-a-jack-o-melon\/"},"modified":"2008-08-05T09:42:26","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T14:42:26","slug":"fortune-cookie-chronicles-on-cnn-with-lola-ogunnaike-and-a-jack-o-melon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/12\/fortune-cookie-chronicles-on-cnn-with-lola-ogunnaike-and-a-jack-o-melon\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortune Cookie Chronicles on CNN with Lola Ogunnaike (and a Jack-o-Melon)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNN ran a  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/#\/video\/living\/2008\/04\/11\/ogunnaike.chinese.food.mysteries.cnn?iref=videosearch\">segment<\/a> on Chinese food in America by my former colleague Lola Ogunnaike. Produced by the lovely Ethel Bass. We actually filmed at an Empire Szechuan, a descendent of the original restaurant that sparked the delivery revolution. I asked Lola what was different from print and television, and one of the things is how much logistics are involved. For a two-minute segment it took two guys with three cameras three hours to get all the footage.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite story of the afternoon: one of the cameramen lives in Queens. A few years ago during the fall, his friendly next door neighbors (who were Chinese) gave him and his wife a winter melon, a popular Chinese vegetable. The camera man and his wife didn&#8217;t know what to do with it, so they hollowed it out, carved a face in it &#8212; a jack o-melon.<\/p>\n<p>Because that is what Americans do with gourds:  make pie or a Halloween decoration.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese neighbors were highly amused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN ran a segment on Chinese food in America by my former colleague Lola Ogunnaike. Produced by the lovely Ethel Bass. We actually filmed at an Empire Szechuan, a descendent of the original restaurant that sparked the delivery revolution. I asked Lola what was different from print and television, and one of the things is [&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":[60,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-interviews","category-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-cK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","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=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}