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Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United Statesby
Andrew Coe Synopses & Reviews In 1784, passengers on the ship
Empress of China became the first Americans to land in China,
and the first to eat Chinese food. Today there are over 40,000
Chinese restaurants across the United States--by far the most
plentiful among all our ethnic eateries. Now, in Chop Suey
Andrew Coe provides the authoritative history of the American
infatuation with Chinese food, telling its fascinating story for
the first time. It's a tale that moves from curiosity to disgust
and then desire. From China, Coe's story travels to the American
West, where Chinese immigrants drawn by the 1848 Gold Rush
struggled against racism and culinary prejudice but still
established restaurants and farms and imported an array of Asian
ingredients. He traces th