Chinese Menu with Grace Lin
Didn't I Just Feed You
Stacie Billis and Meghan Splawn
4.8 • 611 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Ever wonder how General Tso's chicken got its name — or who General Tso was? In her gorgeous new book, Chinese Menu, Grace Lin tells the stories of some of the most popular Chinese menu items. She shares these stories with us, why she wanted to tell them, and along the way, gives us a deeper understanding of resilience and triumph behind these foods, and what makes them undeniably American.
LINKS
- Chinese Menu by Grace Lin
- Grace Lin's other books
- More about Grace Lin
- Grace's podcasts, Kids Ask Authors and Book Friends Forever Podcast
- Our episode, Wok Cooking With J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
- J. Kenji Lopez-Alt's Fried Rice recipe
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| 0:00.0 | The food that we eat is pretty much just like Boston food. |
| 0:09.0 | So our idea of Chinese food is kind of like somebody from France thinking everybody in the United States eats Boston baked beans and lobster. |
| 0:19.0 | And that's it. |
| 0:20.0 | So we here in the United States |
| 0:22.6 | just have a very, very small idea of what Chinese cuisine actually entails. |
| 0:31.0 | And so really it's quite different. |
| 0:33.4 | What we call Chinese food is not really Chinese food. |
| 0:38.6 | Welcome to didn't I just feed you. |
| 0:41.1 | A podcast about feeding kids. |
| 0:44.4 | Hi, I'm Stacey. |
| 0:46.2 | And I'm Megan. |
| 0:47.2 | If you'd like to support the podcast right now, |
| 0:49.3 | how about leaving a rating or review wherever you listen? |
| 0:53.0 | How about it? |
| 0:57.0 | Or share a favorite episode with a friend. |
| 1:05.3 | These things really do help grow our Didn't I Just Feed You audience and help us towards our goal of helping as many busy home cooks as we possibly can. |
| 1:12.4 | And if you're feeling extra generous, you can subscribe to our bonus feed on Apple podcast or or join our superfan community by visiting did I Just Feed You.com backslash community. Superfans also get those bonus |
| 1:18.7 | episodes plus they get an ad-free stream that you really want to check out. And there's opportunities |
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| 1:29.0 | Come on, you guys. You're super fans. It's time to just admit it. |
| 1:36.5 | Join us. Join us. It sounds like a cult when we say join us. Join us. Join us. Moving on. What are we talking about today, Stacey Billis? |
| 1:47.5 | I'm so incredibly excited about this episode. So first of all, let's just, I'm going to do things out |
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