Who was General Tso and whats so special about his chicken?
Who doesn’t love a heaping helping of the good General’s chicken? We sure do, but we were just as baffled about how his name got attached to this mouth-watering dish. We skipped the egg rolls and opted to start with a search on “General Tso Chicken” instead. Our good fortune led us to a site that provided a comprehensive look at the meal and the man. According to Tso What?, the dish, consisting of “fried boneless dark-meat chicken, served with vegetables and whole dried red peppers in a sweet-spicy sauce,” was invented in New York City in the mid ’70s when spicy Hunan and Szechuan cuisine became popular. The site provides a lengthy bio of Tso, but offers only a tongue-in-cheek explanation of why the dish bears his name. The site’s author states the dish is usually either too spicy or too bland, and that is why it’s named after an officer who fought most of
