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For the 1992 film, see Jennifer Eight.
Jennifer 8. Lee (Chinese name: simplified Chinese: 李竞; traditional Chinese: 李競; pinyin: Lǐ Jìng) (born 1976) is an American journalist. She writes for the Metro section of The New York Times.[1] Lee was born in New York City to a Chinese-American family. She graduated from Hunter College High School and Harvard College (class of 1999). She interned at The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Newsday and The New York Times while working on her applied mathematics and economics degree and writing for The Harvard Crimson. She joined the Times in 2001, one and a half years after graduating from Harvard. Lee was not given a middle name at birth and chose her own middle name later.[2][3] She chose "8" as a teenager because of the prevalence of her first name.[4] It was in her teen years that she also began a life-long obsession with food. For many Chinese, the number eight symbolizes prosperity and good luck. Lee wrote a book about the history of Chinese food in the United States and around the world, titled The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, documenting the process on her blog. Warner Books editor Jonathan Karp struck a deal with Lee to write a book about "how Chinese food is more all-American than apple pie."[1] [edit] Footnotes
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