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in all other fields as well, there is another law which is becoming more and
more operative every day, perhaps especially among English-speaking people, and
pre-eminently among Americans. May we call this latter the law of acquisition or
assimilation? We mean thereby to characterize the remarkable tendency in the
country to draw upon the riches of the rest of the world, in every realm of
human achievement, and to make them one's own, either as a whole or in part, to
make them minister to one's enjoyment and advancement. The United States is a
Cosmopolitan Nation, with myriads of interests and capacities of appreciation,
and there seem to be good and sufficient reasons today for offering its people
access to what has been wrought by the genius of Oriental cookery.
In fact, the steadily increasing appreciation of, and demand among Occidentals
for, Oriental cooking, finally induced us, among other reasons, to undertake the
difficult task of writing this book.
The preparation of it we term a difficult task, perhaps for no other reason than
this singular one, namely, the non-existence in the Orient, or among any of the
Oriental nations--except among
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