The Plan to Kill the Chinese Restaurant
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English - July 18, 2019 04:00 - 34 minutes - 32 MB - ★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsFood Arts Society & Culture history culinary cooking food Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Chinese restaurants are an essential part of the American landscape -- even more ubiquitous than McDonald’s. But a century ago, they were almost extinguished by legislation passed around the country that barred young white women from eating at chop suey houses. This is the story of an organized effort to wipe out Chinese eateries altogether and how these restaurants survived in spite of it.
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