‘Off the Menu: Asian America’ Premieres Nationally on PBS December 8

The feature documentary tells the rich stories behind Asian Pacific Americans and food, directed by award-winning filmmaker Grace Lee.

This just in! Off the Menu: Asian America will premiere nationally on PBS December 8, 2015. (Check local listings).

What exactly does food reflect about Asian Pacific Americans? Off the Menu: Asian America grapples with how family, tradition, faith, and geography shape our relationship to food. The program takes audiences on a journey from Texas to New York and from Wisconsin to Hawaii using our obsession with food as a launching point to delve into a wealth of stories, traditions, and unexpected characters that help nourish this nation of immigrants.

Off the Menu is a roadtrip into the kitchens, factories, temples and farms of Asian Pacific America that explores how our relationship to food reflects our evolving community. The feature documentary is a one-hour PBS primetime special by award-winning filmmaker Grace Lee (American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs) co-produced by the Center for Asian American Media and KQED, with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

For more stories about the show, and other stories about food and Asian America, please visit our website.

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