The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781607510024 (1607510022)
Publish date: 2008
Publisher: Twelve
Pages no: 308
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Asian Literature,
Cooking,
China,
Foodie,
Food Writing
Taking a break from my usual fictional fare, I picked up Jennifer 8. Lee's The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food. Lee frames the story around the curious 2005 Powerball event in which over 100 people won Powerball prizes based on their use of numbers from a Chinese r...
Initially, I was not sure why some people gave poor reviews to this book. However, I did come to understand the point some have said that Lee pretty much ends the book three chapters early. After writing a very nice chapter that brings the book full circle (Chapter 15), the rest of the chapters just...
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