Food & Culture
Essays, articles and thoughts about Asian American food and culture.
A “Taste” with Filmmaker Kevin Longa and Food Memories with Mom and Grandma
byCAAM is proud to partner with StoryCorps on Asian American culture and food stories. In this segment, filmmaker Kevin Longa sits down with his mother,…
Remember Oak Creek
byToday marks three years after the Oak Creek, Wisconsin shooting at a gurdwara that resulted in the deaths of 6 members of their sangat….
Community Cookbooks: Asian American Food Selfies
byIn the early 1980s, I was a mixed Japanese American kid growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area. Every summer was spent at…
Dangerous Bites: Cultural Implications of Food Allergies
byWhat better symbol of a Chinese mother’s love than a steaming bowl of homemade soup? Nine years ago, Sharon Wong was trying a magazine…
It Takes Guts, and Organ Meats, to Raise a New Mom
byA foodie’s take on traditional Chinese postpartum food First came the liver, then the kidneys, then pigs feet—lots and lots of pigs feet. In…
Hunger
byMy mother never forgot the peach ice cream she savored as a teenager, at the home of a rich friend in Taiwan. That intense…
A Family Treat – Profile on chocolatier Wendy Lieu
byFor Wendy Lieu, a first generation American whose parents were boat people from Vietnam, opening a chocolate café in San Francisco may seem like…
We Are What We Eat: Asian Americans and Food
byTruth be told, I mildly hated Chinese food as a kid. I spent most of the ‘80s growing up in Los Angeles’s San Gabriel…