Jennifer 8. Lee

New York Times reporter

Jennifer 8. Lee appears in the following:

Politics Of Respectability And A Dragged Passenger

Friday, April 14, 2017

The politics of respectability were complicated this week when a 69 year-old Asian-American doctor was forcibly dragged off a United Airlines flight.

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The Search for The Man Behind General Tso's Chicken

Friday, January 02, 2015

A new documentary about General Tso’s Chicken, a staple of Chinese-American cooking.

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Journalism Around the World

Monday, January 03, 2011

Jennifer 8 Lee, author of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food (Twelve, 2008), talks about her travels this year and what she's discovered about social networking and journalism around the world.

Among the many news innovations Lee has witnessed was the open source mapping of Haiti following the January earthquake. Check out a video representation of the mapping improvements.

OpenStreetMap - Project Haiti from ItoWorld on Vimeo.

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Jennifer 8. Lee's Kindle-in-the-Bathroom

Friday, July 23, 2010

Jennifer 8. Lee, says there are three problems with having a Kindle. "One is that if you go to a book signing, what do you have the author sign?," she asks. And the other?  "It's kind of dangerous to bring into the bathroom or bathtub." 

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Food: Understanding the Jewish Love Affair with Chinese Food

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

What's behind the unique relationship that Jewish people have with Chinese food? Jennifer 8 Lee, author of "The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food," s...

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Gandhi's belongings auctioned, but not without controversy

Friday, March 06, 2009

A dinner bowl, a pair of sandals and eyeglasses belonging to Indian nationalist leader Mohandas Gandhi fetched a price of $1.8 million in a New York auction. The auction was marred by...

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