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Jennifer 8. Lee

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in New York, NY, The United States

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http://fortunecookiechronicles.com/

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Cooking, Food & Wine, History, Social Sciences

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March 2008

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Jennifer 8. Lee, the daughter of Chinese immigrants and a fluent speaker of Mandarin Chinese herself, grew up eating her mother's authentic Chinese food in her family's New York City kitchen before graduating from Harvard in 1999, with a degree in applied mathematics and economics, and studying at Beijing University. At the age of twenty-four, she was hired by the New York Times, where she is a metro reporter, and has written a variety of stories on culture, poverty, and technology. Her middle name "8" connotes prosperity in Chinese. She lives in Harlem.
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	The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food 3.69 avg rating — 5,144 ratings — published 2008 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hanmoji Handbook: Your Guide to the Chinese Language Through Emoji by Jason Li (Illustrator), An Xiao Mina (illustrator), Jennifer 8. Lee (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2022 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Why Chow Mein is the Chosen Food of the Chosen People 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Food is an intimate language that everyone understands, everyone shares. It is the primary ambassador of first contact between cultures, one that transcends spoken language. Food crosses cultural barriers. It bridges oceans. Becoming competent in a foreign language takes a lot of time, and learning a culture’s history and literature requires a great deal of effort. But everyone can immediately have an opinion on food.”
― Jennifer 8. Lee, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food

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“The purpose of fortune cookies became startlingly clear to me then: this is Western wisdom recycled for an American audience. The Chinese are just the middlemen.”
― Jennifer 8. Lee, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food

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“Chinese have a bigger sense of self-sacrifice. Americans are about self-enjoyment, not self-sacrifice,” he’d”
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