Reddit reviews The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
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Read this book to answer all your questions.
The author also gave a TED talk on General Tso's chicken.
I am not a scholar, but I have read Jennifer 8 Lee's book The fortune cookie chronicles. I thought it was a very entertaining book, though I cannot speak to it's historical accuracy.
In her book she chronicles several dishes and their evolution at different times.
The main expansion of Chinese food culture came from the popularity of Chop Suey in the late 1800's probably in the New York area. Though there is several version of its origin story.
After that a huge boom came after WWII when soldiers traveled through the Port of San Francisco and then went back home to their various cities throughout the country. Things like the Fortune cookie, which is believed to have been a Japanese cookie, became common after that.
There is no one date or place, it is a steady evolution of adapting regional techniques to American tastes.
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Good book answers this question and lots of other questions about chinese restaurants.
Actually, the name varies dependent on geographical location. For instance, you can see Tso, Tsao, Chao, Cho, Chou, Tsau and beyond. A fun book to learn more is The Fortune Cookie Chronicles which details the beginnings of Chinese food as we know it in the United States, as well as internationally.
Mostly Cantonese.
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles answer this and all other questions you didn't ask.
Serve the People - A Stir-Fried Journey Through China, it's more of a memoir but deals with the author's experiences working in the restaurant/cooking industry in China. Also, Fuchsia Dunlop, including her cookbooks.
There's also Chinese Culinary Culture, which is probably the closest to what you're looking for, but it may be a bit of a pain in the ass to find outside of China.
Like JAG Roberts' book it's more about Chinese food in the West, but The Fortune Cookie Chronicles is also a good read.