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Foraging for Life, Love and The Perfect Meal Author and Urban Forager Ava Chin will discuss her recent publication Eating Wildly.  The book is a kit on foraging for food in New York, but it is much more.  An excerpt from the book reveals, it to be a memoir of family and self searching in a space where food intersects with cultures: ...I often tagged along with my grandparents down the aisles of Chinese supermarkets. ...Grandpa knew the secrets of the dried, reserved goods and…

 Made in the USA: Chinese Food in America Cedric Yeh and Noriko Sanefuji, curators of Smithsonian's' Sweet Sour Exhibit, explore the history of Chinese Food in America. They point out that there are over 41,000 Chinese restaurants in the United States.  Understanding how Chinese food developed from an immigrant-only taste to become as ubiquitous as the fast food hamburger and hard shell taco tells much about the history of migrant communities and the American society that took them in at times and discriminated against them…

Talk Story Events Ricki’s Promise: A Film Screening And Meeting with Producer/Writer Changfu Chang Sunday, November 29, 2015, 1:30 to 4:00 pm   Chinese Community Church 500 I (Eye) Street NW, Chinatown, Washington DC When internationally adopted American teenager Ricki Mudd returns to China to live with her long-lost birth family for a summer, she pieces together fragments of her mysterious past, exploring culture, tradition, politics and past choices that shaped her life. “Ricki’s Promise stands out as a more complex work...with many moments of unexpected sweetness and authenticity” says the…