"In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting techniques that we read about in magazines."
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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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"My siblings and I are known as ABCs, American-born Chinese."
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"Chinese restaurants have long been a weekly or monthly ritual for many Americans."
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"Headline writing is an art form."
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"People are funny. They often don't mean to be, and that's what makes it even more endearing."
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