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Some of the first who ventured to eat Chinese cooking reported back unfavorably—New York journalist Edwin Trafton wrote in Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly, "I feel as though I had eaten a rare-done nightmare," after eating a Chinese meal—but the cuisine soon took off. Answer the following questions.

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