The March 2008 issue of Fast Company is my current train reading. On page 35 there is a brief note on the book The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food by Jennifer 8. Lee.
Here is an excerpt:
Lee, a Chinese-American reporter for the New York Times, traces the roots of the innovations that helped make the cuisine ubiquitous, including chop suey (San Francisco), fortune cookies (Japan), takeout containers (Hazleton, Pennsylvania), delivery (New York), and soy-sauce packets (Totowa, New Jersey).
Hazleton is the home of Chinese food takeout containers? That seems so ironic for some reason .....
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