TY - BOOK AU - Mendelson,Anne TI - Chow Chop Suey: Food and the Chinese American Journey T2 - Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History Series SN - 9780231541299 AV - TX724.5.C5 M376 2016 U1 - 641.5951 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Cooking, Chinese-History KW - Chinese Americans-Food-History KW - Food habits-United States KW - Emigration and immigration-United States-History KW - Chinese American families-History KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Romanization and Terminology -- Introduction -- Prologue: A Stroke of the Pen -- Part I -- 1. Origins: The Toisan-California Pipeline -- 2. The Culinary "Language" Barrier -- 3. "Celestials" on Gold Mountain -- 4. The Road to Chinatown -- Part II -- 5. The Birth of Chinese American Cuisine -- 6. Change, Interchange, and the First Successful "Translators" -- 7. White America Rediscovers Chinese Cuisine -- 8. An Advancement of Learning -- 9. The First Age of Race-Blind Immigration -- Postscript: What Might Have Been -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index N2 - A food history that illuminates a community's struggle for survival UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4723053 ER -