Showing posts with label The Search For General Tso. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Search For General Tso. Show all posts

Thursday, January 22, 2015

The Search For General Tso (January 23rd and 24th at the Cleveland Cinematheque)

[THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO screens Friday January 23rd at 8:25 pm and Saturday January 24th at 7:05 pm at the Cleveland Cinematheque.]

Review by Bob Ignizio

If you're a fan of what we in America call “Chinese food”, then you are at least aware of a dish called General Tso's Chicken. There's a fairly good chance you've eaten it, too, since it's one of the most popular ethnic foods in this country, just behind pizza according to one subject interviewed in the new documentary THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO. But just who was General Tso and what, if anything, did he have to do with the dish that bears his name? Those are the questions writer/director Ian Cheney sets out to answer with his film.