Even before this, the Gold Rush of 1849 brought many Chinese to California, and they brought rice with them. Today six states produce most of the rice in the U.S.

Our cookbook of the week is The Chinese Way by author and surgery resident Betty Liu. Jump to the recipes: pan-seared duck breasts with scallion-crisped rice , miso-sesame chicken with pearl barley , ...

It was 2007 when Adrienne, a bohemian-looking Chinese-American, met Abe Conlon — a part-Portuguese chef from Lowell, Massachusetts, who grew up fascinated by the recipes of his home city's large ...

As far as Chinese restaurants go, Black Pearl which also has a location in Wedgwood, is on par with any of the establishments clustered in Seattle’s Chinatown/ International District.

"To be perfectly frank," Ling-ya Lee, who came to Los Angeles from Taiwan in 1989, says of her Chinese New Year preparations, "I rarely make dumplings anymore." Given the high quality of ready ...