with the increased number of attacks on Asian Americans. While the holiday has passed, the stories and recipes are evergreen.
But as we all know, using food as a way to talk about what’s going on in the world around us isn’t enough. What’s happening in Chinatowns and elsewhere across the U.S. and in Chinese, East, and Southeast Asian restaurants is about much more than what we choose to eat. “Americans may love Chinese food,” Jenny Zhang, “but they don’t love the people who make it.” She goes on: “They treat Chinatowns like their playgrounds, their residents like backdrops for photos.
I’ve asked so many people what they are doing to help, and the answer I’ve heard the most is to put money into and empower community organizations. Restaurateur Eric Sze, part of the newly formed
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