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Chopstick Cinema
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Celeste Heiter's daily adventures in Asian food and film. Each week, I select an Asian film from a different country, and create a dish from the cuisine of that country. The film review and recipe are posted at the end of the week.
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Choosing a Thai Recipe
This Week’s Films: The King and I / Anna and the King Cuisine: Thai I’m in the mood for curry, and since this week’s films are both set in Thailand, I’ll be making a Thai-style curry. I’ve already shopped for lemongrass and chili pep...
This Week’s Films: The King and I / Anna and the King
This Week’s Films: The King and I / Anna and the King Cuisine: Thai Synopsis: Two films, one a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, the other an epic drama, both tell the story of Anna Leonowens, an English tutor who travels to Siam to tutor th...
Welcome to Chopstick Cinema for the Week of December 14, 2009
This Week’s Film: The King and I / Anna and the King Cuisine: Thai Each week, I feature an Asian film and create a recipe from the cuisine of that country. This week, I’ve scheduled a double feature, a couple of classic versions of the sam...
Recipe: General Tso’s Chicken
This Week’s Film: The King of Masks Cuisine: Chinese This fiery chicken dish with a legendary history may be found on menus in Chinese restaurants around the world. Here is a link to the Recipe and Photo on ThingsAsian....
About General Tso and His Chicken
This Week’s Film: The King of Masks Cuisine: Chinese There are lots of articles on the Internet regarding the history of General Tso’s Chicken. From them I’ve learned that General Tso Tsungtang (Zuo Zongtang) was a nineteenth-century milit...
Researching Recipes for General Tso’s Chicken
This Week’s Film: The King of Masks Cuisine: Chinese Although none of my cookbooks contain a recipe for General Tso’s Chicken, a keyword search for ‘general tso’s chicken recipe’ yields a dizzying array of results. 81,600 to be p...

