Jennifer Lee Quotes Archive
This is a collection of quotes about food from Jennifer Lee.
I like to say ‘Chop suey’s the biggest culinary joke
Posted September 27, 2014
“I like to say, ‘Chop suey’s 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.'”
We might be shifting away from a Eurocentric view of
Posted September 11, 2014
“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.”
