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Info and Photo Sources:
The Search for General Tso (Documentary)
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles by Jennifer 8. Lee
http://www.maphill.com/china/guangdon...
https://americanhistory.si.edu/americ...
https://time.com/4211871/chinese-food...
https://www.asianstudies.org/publicat...
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/avlxyz/...
https://flashbak.com/street-life-in-s...

Further Reading:
https://news.colgate.edu/magazine/201... (detailed investigation into the letter that sparked the MSG scare)
https://www.insider.com/chinese-ameri...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/ny...
https://blog.resy.com/2021/01/chinese...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/w...
https://radiichina.com/american-chine...

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