Topic “Food”

It’s Eel, It’s Salmon -- Wait… It’s Kinda Both?

The Just Label It campaign wants you to know what you're eating.

By: Nancy Wei | Posted: Thu, Jan 5th- 2:56pm | Under: food safety, GMO, labeling, organics, sushi, Food, Health & Environment, Science, Social Justice

Fortune Cookie USA Photo Contest

Upload your most creative fortune cookie photos with the hashtag #FortuneCookieUSA to Twitter or Flickr over the holiday season, and your works of art may be published in Hyphen magazine's 10th Anniversary Issue.

By: Nina Kahori Fal... | Posted: Thu, Dec 22nd- 6:52pm | Under: Chinese American food, fortune cookies, Holidays, Art & Design, Community, Dollar Store Finds, Food, Photography, Sex

Hardships for Asian Food Workers

Tough to mistake canines for quackers, but that is what an enterprising Minneapolis TV journalist did when trying to determine if a New York City Chinatown meat market was selling cuts of man's best friend.

By: Kevin Lee | Posted: Wed, Nov 23rd- 12:46pm | Under: Blogger Column, dogs, Food, meat markets, Minnesota, New York, news, restaurants, Food, News & Politics

From Fields to Family: A Drool-Worthy Food Exhibit

Wing Luke Asian Museum's latest exhibit From Fields to Family will make your tummy rumble and serve up plenty of food for thought.

By: Cynthia Brothers | Posted: Mon, Nov 21st- 2:08pm | Under: wing luke museum, Art & Design, Culture, Food

Double Trouble at Singleton's

Singleton’s Mini Mart is a New Orleans lunch counter owned by the Nguyen family. Their work ethic and memorable seafood po’boys inspired a New Orleans rap group called Double Trouble to film their first video in Singleton’s, aptly titled “Watch...

By: Nina Kahori Fal... | Posted: Thu, Nov 10th- 1:08pm | Under: Food, Music

Sea Change

Writer Nina Kahori Fallenbaum
Photographer Lisa Cates

Some say that Asian America began in Louisiana. In the late 1700s, Filipino sailors escaped Spanish galleons and started shrimping the hot, humid Gulf Coast, where the weather...

By: Nina Kahori Fal... | Posted: Wed, Nov 9th- 11:54pm | Under: BP Oil Spill, Louisiana, New Orleans East, vietnamese americans, Food, Community, Food, Issue 24: Survival, Health & Environment, News & Politics, Recipe

Events: Hyphen on the Scene

Hyphen Year-End...

By: Lisa Wong Macabasco | Posted: Mon, Oct 31st- 3:08pm | Under: Art & Design, Front of the Book, Events, Film Festivals, Food, Issue 23: Bittersweet, Hyphen Events, Music

Postpartum (Food) Delivery in Oakland Chinatown

A new service in Oakland's Chinatown delivers meals like chicken and black fungus wine soup to new moms.

By: Momo Chang | Posted: Fri, Oct 7th- 9:02am | Under: Allan Liu, Liu Mama, Motherhood Rooted, postpartum, Culture, Food, Gender, Health & Environment, Immigration, Parenthood

Better Living Through Bitter Melon

Editor’s note: The National Bitter Melon Council was established by a group of performance artists and Asian American activists based in Boston. The council exists to “celebrate the health, social, culinary and creative possibilities of this...

By: National Bitter... | Posted: Sun, Dec 11th- 5:32pm | Under: bitter melon, manifesto, trade group, Food, Community, Events, Food, Issue 23: Bittersweet, Health & Environment, Performing Arts

Review of Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan's 'A Tiger in the Kitchen'

In A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family, Singaporean expat Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan uses food as a vehicle to navigate the often complicated relationships that Asian Americans and Asian immigrants often form with regards to...

By: Eric Zhang | Posted: Thu, Jun 16th- 10:19am | Under: Cheryl Lu-Lien, Books Section, Food, Reviews

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