Sweet and Sour: Life in Chinese Family Restaurants | Noe Valley

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John Jung has taken us down another memory lane and this time we brought along our appetite. “Sweet & Sour” evoked hundreds of memories of Chinatowns, favorite soul food dishes, haunts of opulent and garish banquet halls and the more frequented and beloved hole-in-the walls. These are the collective memories shared by families and friends. Sweet & Sour is also an anthropological study. Chinese cooks across these United States and Canada created an everlasting love for Chinese food enjoyed by all cultures. Find a “chop suey” house and generations upon generations will cite their favorites, be it chowmein, fried rice, beef brisket stew or even chicken feet. This talk is in conjunction with the Culinary Historian of Northern California.

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