Research Guides @ Fordham: Chinese American History: Food & Culinary History

Selected Books

Chop Fry Watch Learn : Fu Pei-Mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food by Michelle T. King
W.W. Norton & Company, 2024.
Made Here : Recipes & Reflections from New York City's Asian Communities
Send Chinatown Love, 2023.
Call number [RH Oversize Stacks] TX724.5.C5 M33 2023
From Chinatown to Every Town [electronic resource] : How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United States by Zai Liang
University of California Press, 2023.
The Nom Wah Cookbook : Recipes and Stories from 100 Years at New York City's Iconic Dim Sum Restaurant by Wilson Tang; Joshua David Stein
Ecco, 2020.
Call number [RH Stacks] TX724.5.C5 T365 2020
Chop Suey, USA [electronic resource] : The Story of Chinese Food in America by Yong Chen
Columbia University Press, 2014.
Eating Asian America [electronic resource] : A Food Studies Reader by Robert Ji-Song Ku; Martin F. Manalansan; Anita Mannur (eds.)
New York University Press, 2013.

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