It would be possible to leave the story here and say that General Tso's Chicken simply honors a great personality, just as Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, is honored in Beef Wellington ...

A mainstay of Chinese restaurants across the United States, General Tso's chicken is a popular takeout dish. It typically consists of fried pieces of chicken that are tossed in a sauce that is ...

A new documentary reveals the secret history behind America's favorite takeout dish, General Tso's chicken Film still General Tso’s chicken, a sticky, sweet Chinese fried chicken dish often ...

For the past fifty years, few dishes have defined Chinese-American cuisine quite like General Tso’s chicken. With its glistening, deep-fried crunch and sticky, sweet-savory glaze, it’s become ...

General Tso's (or Zuo's) chicken is the most famous Hunanese dish in the world. A delectable concoction of lightly battered chicken in a chili-laced, sweet-sour sauce, it appears on restaurant ...

Peng Chang-kuei, a vaunted Hunanese chef who was widely credited as the creator of General Tso’s chicken, a dish that evolved into the deep-fried, sticky and unabashedly inauthentic staple of ...

Take a look at just about any Chinese restaurant in the United States and their menu will probably have General Tso’s Chicken hanging out somewhere between the lo mein and the beef with broccoli.

In the West, particularly the U.S. and Canada, we know him simply as General Tso, namesake of a Chinese takeout chicken dish. Zuo was born in 1812 in Hsiangyin, Hunan, to a family of wealthy ...

Believe it or not, General Tso's chicken, found on probably every Chinese food restaurant menu in America, isn't really a Chinese dish -- a more accurate description would be "Chinese inspired." ...