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Joyce Chen Cooks; Egg Foo Yung
Part of From the Vault. Part of Joyce Chen Cooks and the Upscaling of Chinese Food in America in the 1960s.
09/26/1966
Joyce Chen takes the mystery out of Chinese cooking. She shows how to duplicate one of the most popular restaurant dishes in your own kitchen cooking eggs, celery, mushrooms, and bean sprouts together in the Chinese manner. Summary and select metadata for this record was submitted by Dana Polan.
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- Series
- Joyce Chen Cooks
- Program
- Egg Foo Yung
- Program Number
1
- Series Description
Premiered September 26, 1966 A distinguished restaurateur and author of a popular Chinese cookbook, Mrs. Chen prepares all kinds of Chinese delicacies and everyone of them can be made in the modern kitchen, with ingredients available at the local supermarket. Series release date: 6/30/1966
- Program Description
The well-known restaurant owner begins her series by showing how to make two popular Chinese egg dishes at home: Egg Foo Yung (with celery, mushrooms and bean sprouts) and Egg Drop Soup (chicken broth with sherry, scallions and egg dropped in in the Chinese way).
Joyce Chen takes the mystery out of Chinese cooking. She shows how to duplicate one of the most popular restaurant dishes in your own kitchen cooking eggs, celery, mushrooms, and bean sprouts together in the Chinese manner
- Duration
00:29:06
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Mushrooms
- Asian Cuisine
- Bean Sprouts
- Chinese Cooking
- Egg Foo Yung
- American Chinese Cuisine
- Chen, Joyce, 1917-1994
- Genres
- Instructional
- Topics
- Cooking
- Creators
- Lockwood, Ruth (Series Producer)
- Contributors
- Chen, Joyce, 1917-1994 (Host)
- Lockwood, Ruth (Producer)
- Mahard, Frances (Other (see note))
- Stevens, Mark (Director)
- Publication Information
- Presented by the Estate of Joyce Chen and the WGBH Educational Foundation
- Citation
- Chicago: “Joyce Chen Cooks; Egg Foo Yung,” 09/26/1966, GBH Archives, accessed April 19, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_7E8DABA5A896477C9E230E4A4EC9F681.
- MLA: “Joyce Chen Cooks; Egg Foo Yung.” 09/26/1966. GBH Archives. Web. April 19, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_7E8DABA5A896477C9E230E4A4EC9F681>.
- APA: Joyce Chen Cooks; Egg Foo Yung. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_7E8DABA5A896477C9E230E4A4EC9F681