Date/Time:5/10/6:30PM to 7:50PM
Location: Hecht House
Topic discussed: belief/commercialized food/immigration history
Cultural and/or linguistic topics you and your partner learned:
Another good talk with Michael as usual. This time, we talked about the importance of belief and how it affects our lives. Then, we talked about the history of Italian food in the US, and it turns out the food has been Americanized as well. The same as Chinese food in the US. I guess the development of food in the US really is a good history lesson about immigration, because food is deeply connected to how new immigrants survived in this country. Just like orange chicken and Mongolian beef, they were the tools to "pleases" the mainstream when new Chinese immigrants came to the US. Michael shared some of his family history in the end. It was fascinating to know how difficult could be as the first generation immigrants when his grandparents first moved to the US.
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