Film, art, food, talks celebrate Asian Pacific American culture

Rejoice Asian Pacific American heritage on campus all through April in diverse methods. Observe a movie about Chinese immigrants in the deep South. Attend a keynote address by engineering lawyer…

New ‘Mee-Ka’ pop-up restaurant blends Hmong and American food cultures

Chef Yia Vang and his team have revamped their menu and room at 901 W. Lake St. in Uptown to start a new pop-up strategy, “Mee-Ka,” geared towards the merging…

Yia Vang’s new Mee-Ka pop-up embraces Hmong American food

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History, identity, and food: ‘Sharing Our Roots’ event highlights Asian American culture through storytelling

Developing up in her Vietnamese group in Westminster, Emily Diem Tran remembers her mother enlisting her and her siblings in an assembly line to aid make sticky rice cakes during…

Celebrating Black and African American cuisine means eating around the world

Throughout the African American and African diaspora, food takes on as many different forms and traditions as the people who make it up. Enslaved Africans brought their cooking and farming…

Hokkaido Food Is Getting the Attention It Deserves from American Diners

Takashi Igarashi, the head chef at NR, speaks fervently about the high quality of Hokkaido substances and the uniqueness of the prefecture’s cuisine. “Potatoes, corn, carrots—so much of Japan’s greatest produce…