Jennifer Lee
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Jennifer Lee
Jennifer Nicole Leeis an American fitness model, motivational speaker, and author. She is known for losing 70 pounds and launching a career as a fitness guru after bearing two children...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionModel
Date of Birth13 June 1975
CountryUnited States of America
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I like to say, 'Chop suey's the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another,' because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means 'tsap sui,' which, if you translate back, means 'odds and ends.'
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So, fortune cookies: invented by the Japanese, popularized by the Chinese, but ultimately consumed by Americans. They are more American than anything else.
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As productive and brilliant as he was, he was also self-destructive, ... He said God gave him MS to slow him down. This disease saved his life.
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For most of our young lives, my family was baffled by elementary school bake sales, to which we were told to bring in goodies to sell. While other kids arrived bearing brownies, chocolate chip cookies, and apple pies, Chinese families didn't bake.
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With wok cooking, you chop things up into little pieces for maximum surface area, so they can cook in minutes, if not seconds. Sauteing is energy efficient; baking is not.
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Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're desperate for something, and that's okay. That's part of life.
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Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.
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In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting techniques that we read about in magazines.
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We have no problem bringing (young) people out for hikes and social activities. But when you flip that and say how many of those people show up for conservation activities or for going down to the City Council (meeting), that is where the numbers drop off drastically.