Chop suey is the dish that kicked off non-Chinese Americans’ love affair with Chinese food. In the late 19th century, it became the favorite meal of poor white artists living in New York City.

I guess the US is such a melting pot, that it's hard to define American food at all. Recently, I heard a 10 year old son of a friend of mine decline eating at a specific Mexican place because, "it ...

Chinese food on Christmas has become as American Jewish as apple pie. And as part of our exploration of holiday traditions, we have invited Rabbi Joshua Plaut to our studios.

By this “logic,” the non-Jewish, Portuguese-born owner and Irish-American chef of kosher steakhouse Le Marais on West 46th Street shouldn’t be allowed to earn a living.

American Chinese food a culinary evolution shaped by exclusion Now-classic takeout dishes in U.S. a product of Gold Rush-era immigrants’ adaptation through some ugly times in history ...

If there’s a single identifiable moment when Jewish Christmas—the annual American tradition where Jews overindulge in Chinese food on December 25—transitioned from kitsch into codified ...

If Lucky Lee’s food is “clean,” as Haspel markets it, this necessarily implies that the American Chinese food that came before it is not, ... and the owner makes a non-apology.

In 1983, Tim Ma’s parents opened Bamboo Garden in Conway, Ark. It was a side hustle — his mother was in graduate school, and his father worked full-time as a medical technician.

By . Paula Mejia is a reporter and culture writer. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The A.V. Club, Pitchfork, Spin, Rookie and many others.She originally hails from Houston ...

In 1966, Boston’s public television station produced two groundbreaking TV shows in the same studio. One was Julia Child’s “The French Chef.” The other was “Cooking with Joyce Chen.” A ...

If there’s a single identifiable moment when Jewish Christmas—the annual American tradition where Jews overindulge on Chinese food on December 25—transitioned from kitsch into codified ...