![]() And thanks to my sons Buster and Smacky for loving Chinese food and usually letting me work.ġ.1. At Oxford University Press, my editors Benjamin Keene and Grace Labatt were painstaking and patient. Joanna Waley-Cohen and John Eng-Wong were indefatigable readers who gave me greatly needed perspective. Dwight Chapin, Charles Freeman, and Winston Lord generously granted me interviews on which I drew for the section on Nixon’s China trip. Hsu, Harold Rolnick, Stella Dong, Paul Mooney, Eileen Mooney, Kenny of the Bronx’s Golden Gate restaurant, Jacqueline Newman and Flavor & Fortune, Aaron and Marjorie Ziegelman, and, for technical support, my father, Michael D. Mendelson, Harley Spiller, Jakob Klein, Anthony Chang, Charles Perry, H. For assistance during all phases of this project, I am grateful to Richard Snow, Magnus Bartlett, Andrew Smith, Anne During the writing phase of this project, I relied on the staff and workspaces of the New York Mercantile Library’s Writers’ Studio and the New York Society Library. The exhibition “Have You Eaten Yet? The Chinese Restaurant in America” at the Museum of Chinese in the Americas was one of the inspirations for this book. Russo Grant from the Culinary Trust for allowing me to visit the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Chinese Historical Society of America. Memorial Library of the State University of New York, Stonybrook. Newman Chinese Cookbook Collection housed in the Special Collections and University Archives of the Frank Melville Jr. I also consulted the Nixon Presidential Library, the National Archives at College Park, Maryland, and the magnificent Dr. During the seemingly endless research phase of this project, I depended on the collections, staff, and resources of the New York Public Library: the Humanities and Social Sciences Library, particularly its Asian and Middle Eastern Division, and the Chinese Heritage Collection at the Chatham Square Branch Library. This journey into the less-charted realms of Chinese and United States history could not have been accomplished without the assistance of many individuals and institutions. Includes bibliographical references and index. Chop suey : a cultural history of Chinese food in the United States / Andrew Coe. The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Coe, Andrew. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine VietnamĬopyright © Andrew Coe 2009 Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. Oxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education. Ī Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States Andrew Coe
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