Jennifer Lee
Jennifer Lee
Jennifer Nicole Leeis an American fitness model, motivational speaker, and author. She is known for losing 70 pounds and launching a career as a fitness guru after bearing two children...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionModel
Date of Birth13 June 1975
CountryUnited States of America
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The Chinese use every spare bit of an animal: cow lungs, pig ears, chicken feet, duck blood.
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Broccoli is not a Chinese vegetable; in fact, it is originally an Italian vegetable. It was introduced into the United States in the 1800s, but became popularized in the 1920s and the 1930s.
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For most of our young lives, my family was baffled by elementary school bake sales, to which we were told to bring in goodies to sell. While other kids arrived bearing brownies, chocolate chip cookies, and apple pies, Chinese families didn't bake.
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My siblings and I are known as ABCs, American-born Chinese.
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Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.
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Chinese restaurants have long been a weekly or monthly ritual for many Americans.
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I like to say, Chop sueys the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another, because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means tsap sui, which, if you translate back, means odds and ends.
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We might be shifting away from a Eurocentric view of the United States into something that's much more multicultural, multinational, and Chinese food is just one slice of that.
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I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.
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To see this effect in such a large population is quite striking and is surprising.
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The worst headline is one that contains a factual error. Bad headlines are ones that are bland, and don't tell the reader anything specific, like 'Democrats at it Again.'
Some books that I've read on the Kindle, I've been like, 'I want that on my shelf.' Because it says, 'I'm the kind of person who has read this.' The kind of books that says, 'I'm serious and intellectual and historical and race-conscious.'
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People think of fortune cookies as being Chinese, but in essence, they are fundamentally American.
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So, fortune cookies: invented by the Japanese, popularized by the Chinese, but ultimately consumed by Americans. They are more American than anything else.