Let’s Talk Lunar New Year Traditions
Find out how some Asian American chefs, writers, and leaders are celebrating the Year of the Rabbit (or is it cat?)
Find out how some Asian American chefs, writers, and leaders are celebrating the Year of the Rabbit (or is it cat?)
“On top of a required family feast, families celebrate with centuries-old traditions to bring success with the New Year.” – Grace Cheung, KQED.
Join World Channel, America ReFramed and CAAM in the sharing family and community stories from two award-winning filmmakers.
“To know our kinship is to expand our vision and deepen our love, the trait most emphatically shared, most painfully abandoned, and most urgently needed, on this most tender, green branch of the tree of life.”
CAAM partnered with StoryCorps to capture oral history interviews about traditions, new and old.
Here are recipes from Cecilia Chiang’s “The Mandarin Way” memoir and cookbook. Whole steamed fish and dumplings are both traditional Chinese New Year dishes, to be eaten on New Year’s Eve, February 7, 2016.
The recordings will culminate in a special series of oral history devoted to Lunar New Year. Come in with someone you know, someone who’s important to you in some way, and share your story.
From remembering Tet traditions in Vietnam to Chinese “money dumplings,” here are some vivid Lunar New Year memories and traditions.
Come and record your stories at StoryCorps, San Francisco.