What is Reddit's opinion of Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States?

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Andrew Coe wrote a really interesting book about the history and popularization of American Chinese food and one of his central claims is that a lot of what we think of as “Americanized” actually is a distinct style of cooking that was prevalent in one region of China that the majority of early Chinese immigrants came from.

He goes into the whole cultural background surrounding the introduction of Chinese food in railroad and mining camps and the impacts of systemic anti-Asian racism leading up to the Chinese Exclusion Act and how it become popular with white urbanites. It was a really cool deep dive into how politics and economics all interacted to produce a distinctive cuisine.

Chop Suey by Andrew Coe was an excellent read and goes in even more depth.

It's great to see more people learning about this history to understand how cuisines are adapted by the people cooking it. Hopefully more people will get more informed about Chinese and Chinese-American cuisine and stop thinking in the negative stereotypes that abound.

http://www.amazon.com/Chop-Suey-Cultural-History-ebook/dp/B003D5DK0Q/ref=dp_kinlend_rdm_t

shameless plug for ignorance cure.

"Sauteed veggies and meat, served over rice" or "veggie and meat stew over rice", depending on how it's actually cooked.

I guess it would be historically accurate to call it "Chop suey" since that was the Chinese-American garbage platter that popularized Chinese food in the U.S. Source. See also Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States

ETA: Hah, I wonder what the haters are hating on - accurate descriptions of the food or the historically accurate term.

ETA 2: Added sources. "Garbage platter" or "Garbage plate" is a standard term in many restaurants.