Archive for the ‘Food’ Category
Not from around here: one story of a Chinese immigrant family working in the restaurant business
A couple of months ago, I mentioned Jennifer 8. Lee’s book The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food, and included an excerpt about how very American it is to eat Chinese food. Chinese immigrants make up an enormous portion of the US Asian population; even so, I never really understood the [...]
June 11th, 2009Eating Chinese
In my Understanding Asia class (required for my Asian Studies minor, and one of the most engaging classes I’ve taken), we’ve been studying Asian-American literature for the last two weeks. We’ve been looking at several major elements: 1) what does it mean to be Asian-American, and to what extent do you remain Asian while at [...]
April 21st, 2009