Meant To Be Eaten

Esther Kim on Afro-Asian solidarity, Eddie Huang, and how a fistful of rice fuelled a democracy

Episode Summary

A conversation with Esther Kim. Esther Kim is a writer and editor of the Asian American Writers' Workshop's Transpacific Literary Project. We discuss the stickiness of the "Asian-American" genre, Eddie Huang and appropriation, how a fistful of rice created a democracy, and our duties as Asian-American writers. Michael Pollan, The Sickness in Our Food Supply https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/06/11/covid-19-sickness-food-supply/ Ishay Govender-Ypma, Navigating the use of a knife and a fork at the dinner table https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/held-ransom-dinner-table-191210132834593.html

Episode Notes

A conversation with Esther Kim. 

Esther Kim is a writer and editor of the Asian American Writers' Workshop's Transpacific Literary Project. We discuss the stickiness of the "Asian-American" genre, Eddie Huang and appropriation, how a fistful of rice created a democracy, and our duties as Asian-American writers. Michael Pollan, The Sickness in Our Food Supply  Ishay Govender-Ypma, Navigating the use of a knife and a fork at the dinner table .

Photo Courtesy of Joe Liew.

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