http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/reading_tonight_36 Two open mic nights tonight and only one reading, but it should be a pretty great one. New York Times reporter Jennifer 8. Lee is at the Elliott Bay Book Company, reading from her new book, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, which is about Chinese food and American Chinese food and the elusive General Tso. The always-delightful Stranger Eat & Tell columnist Angela Garbes writes about Ms. Lee in this week's column. An excerpt: Her writing for the Times—whether it's about Chinatown in Flushing, Queens, or popular baby names—is smart and funny, and her book is an obsessive exploration of Chinese... Copyright 2008 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:13:45 -0800 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:43:22 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Total useless fun-fact time, but fortune cookies were invented by a Japanese family in San Francisco. Neither here nor there, just thought I'd share that.

]]> Dougsf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/reading_tonight_36#c986271 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/reading_tonight_36#c986271 Books Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:59:37 -0800 when i lived in the uk our corner chinese did a version of general tso for my dad but it was NOTHING like the american version...i think it could have qualified as actually healthy and it was delicious.

]]> Jiberish http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/reading_tonight_36#c986275 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/reading_tonight_36#c986275 Books Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:01:28 -0800 TEST

]]> Nick http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/reading_tonight_36#c986942 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/reading_tonight_36#c986942 Books Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:43:22 -0800