The Search for General Tso

From New York City to the farmlands of the Midwest, there are 50,000 Chinese restaurants in the U.S., yet one dish in particular has conquered the American culinary landscape with a force befitting its military monikerGeneral Tsos Chicken. But who was General Tso and how did this dish become so ubiquitous? Ian Cheneys delightfully insightful documentary charts the history of Chinese Americans through the surprising origins of this sticky, sweet, just-spicy-enough dish that weve adopted as our own.