Podcasts Culture Meant To Be Eaten Esther Kim on Afro-Asian solidarity, Eddie Huang, and how a fistful of rice fuelled a democracy

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

Published: May 31, 2020, 8:07 p.m.

A conversation with Esther Kim.\n\nEsther 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.\n\nMichael Pollan, The Sickness in Our Food Supply\nhttps://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/06/11/covid-19-sickness-food-supply/\n\n Ishay Govender-Ypma, Navigating the use of a knife and a fork at the dinner table\nhttps://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/held-ransom-dinner-table-191210132834593.html