Cultural Understanding
Growing up, my parents tried to teach me that I was special, that my unique mix of races was something to embrace and cherish. And for a while, I felt that way. I liked my voluminous hair and my macchiato skin tone. I loved eating warm chapatis smothered in mango jam, kalbi wrapped in fresh […]
MoreI think of the relationship between food and love as an equilibrium reaction. Both the forward reaction, food creating love, and the reverse reaction, love being displayed through food, occur simultaneously. Although I wasn’t necessarily taking chemistry at the time, my experience with my grandmother and her cooking has inspired this thinking. My halmeoni immigrated […]
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