Jennifer 8 Lee
Jennifer 8 Lee, the daughter of Chinese immigrants and a fluent speaker of Mandarin Chinese herself, grew up eating her mother's authentic Chinese food in her family's New York City kitchen before graduating from Harvard in 1999 with a degree in Applied Mathematics and economics and studying at Beijing University. At the age of 24, she was hired by the New York Times, where she is a metro repoter and has written a variety of stories on culture, poverty, and technology.
Jennifer 8 Lee, the daughter of Chinese immigrants and a fluent speaker of Mandarin Chinese herself, grew up eating her mother's authentic Chinese food in her family's New York City kitchen before graduating from Harvard in 1999 with a degree in Applied Mathematics and economics and studying at Beijing University. At the age of 24, she was hired by the New York Times, where she is a metro repoter and has written a variety of stories on culture, poverty, and technology. See less
Jennifer 8 Lee's Featured Books
Jennifer 8 Lee book reviews
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The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
Good eating
by BruceHH, Apr 17, 2012
This book is hard to categorize. There are elements of labor, religious, US and world history, travelogue and others in this book. The impetus was the 30 March 2005 Powerball drawing. Instead of ... Read More
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The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
good read
each chapter reads like it was written for a magazine. interesting! Read More
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The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
3.5 stars. An interesting historical and sociological look at the Chinese restaurant in (mainly) America and elsewhere. Wow! I learned some new things about the Chinese restaurant business, for ... Read More
