The Search for General Tso (2014)

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There are 50 thousand Chinese restaurants in the U.S., yet one dish in particular has conquered the American culinary landscape with a force befitting its military moniker: General Tso’s Chicken. Who was General Tso and how did this dish become so ubiquitous? Ian Cheney’s delightfully insightful documentary charts the history of Chinese Americans through the surprising origins of this sticky, sweet, just-spicyenough dish that we have adopted as our own.