Last summer, Elyse Bouvier got into her beat-up Volvo station wagon and drove across Alberta in search of something very personal but very foreign. It was not any kind of spiritual epiphany or ...

According to legend, chop suey became popular after Chinese Ambassador Li Hung Chang visited the United States in 1896. Everyone was so thrilled by his appearance that it gave rise to Chinese cuisine.

Some authorities believe that chop suey is related to a traditional Chinese dish, but nobody knows for sure. iStock Chop suey is not the only Chinese-American dish that has little connection to ...

Is there anything more American than Chinese food? Remember that scene in “Manhattan” where Woody Allen and Mariel Hemingway cozy up in bed in his cramped apartment with cardboard boxes of something ...

National Chop Suey Day is celebrated every year on Aug. 29 to recognize the American Chinese culinary cuisine. Legend has it that in 1896, a panicked Chinese-American chef attempted to find something ...

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Dozens of chop suey houses operated in Chicago as early as 1905. Today, the Chinese food scene has expanded and diversified. Chicago Stories is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, ...

Joaquin "Jocko" Fajardo, 39, grew up in Tempe, Ariz., in a large family. Mexican food was an integral part of his upbringing. And yet, the dish that reminds him of home and family is a distinctly ...

One dish I grew up eating from my mother’s kitchen may not fit the expected Sonoran profile of golden fried beef and potato tacos, machaca con huevos, tamales and carne asada. However, this noodle ...

Joaquin “Jocko” Fajardo, 39, grew up in Tempe, Ariz., in a large family. Mexican food was an integral part of his upbringing. And yet, the dish that reminds him of home and family is a distinctly ...