Food and Wine Daily » Chinese http://foodandwinedaily.com Everything that is fit to consume on the web Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:29:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 The Chinese and Jews http://foodandwinedaily.com/2008/03/19/14/ http://foodandwinedaily.com/2008/03/19/14/#comments Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:37:35 +0000 edcharles http://foodandwinedaily.com/?p=14 Christian icons are scary to non believers. Who wants to walk into an Italian restaurant and see a carving of some guy being crucified? It is not surprising that trad Italian restaurants can be kinds scary if you are not a Christian.
Arthur Schwartz, writing in EGullet says:

“That Jews have an affinity for Chinese food is no secret. The Jews know it. The Chinese know it. Everyone knows it. Until the dispersal of middle-class Jews to the New York suburbs was complete in the 1970s and 1980s, Chinese take-out shops opened on every corner of the city. It was said that you could tell how Jewish a neighborhood was by the number of Chinese restaurants.”

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