Prologue: A Stroke of the Pen --
1. Origins: The Toisan -- California Pipeline --
2. The Culinary "Language" Barrier --
3. "Celestials" on Gold Mountain --
4. The Road to Chinatown --
5. The Birth of Chinese American Cuisine --
6. Change, Interchange, and the First Successful "Translators" --
7. White America Rediscovers Chinese Cuisine --
8. An Advancement of Learning --
9. The First Age of Race-Blind Immigration --
Postscript: What Might Have Been.
