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It was mentioned in the context of the history of Chinese food, particularly its connection to the Jewish community in the Lower East Side of New York at the turn of the 20th century. A producer of the book, Jennifer 8 Lee, noted the shared experience of being outsiders, helping explain why Jewish people loved Chinese food.
All right, so Jennifer 8 Lee is a producer of The Search for General Tso.
— Episode: Short Stuff: Chinese Food on Christmas
Episode: Short Stuff: Chinese Food on Christmas
It was mentioned in the context of the history of Chinese food, particularly its connection to the Jewish community in the Lower East Side of New York at the turn of the 20th century. A producer of the book, Jennifer 8 Lee, noted the shared experience of being outsiders, helping explain why Jewish people loved Chinese food.
All right, so Jennifer 8 Lee is a producer of The Search for General Tso.
Jews and Chinese were the two largest non-Christian immigrant groups at the turn of the century and so these groups were linked by living in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and they were also linked by otherness and to for Jewish people to love Chinese food she feels just says a lot about immigration history in the United States and being an outsider in the United States kind of living together, which is really kind of a nice thing.
Episode: Short Stuff: Chinese Food on Christmas
It was mentioned that Jennifer 8 Lee, a producer of this book, discussed the history of Chinese food and the Jewish community, particularly on the Lower East Side of Manhattan at the turn of the last century.
All right, so Jennifer 8 Lee is a producer of the search for general so is it it's general so right? Yeah, okay. It's general eight
Jews and Chinese were the two largest non-christian immigrant groups at the turn of the century and so these groups were linked by living in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and they were also linked by otherness and to for Jewish people to love Chinese food She feels just says a lot about immigration history in the United States and being an outsider in the United States kind of living together, which is really kind of a nice thing.