Asian America Food Politics

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 14, 2013

In Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader (NYU Press, 2013), editor Robert Ku, associate professor of Asian and Asian American Studies at Binghamton University and author of Dubious Gastronomy: The Cultural Politics of Eating Asian in the USA, and contributor Lok Siu, associate professor & coordinator of the Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies program at UC Berkeley, share their scholarly take on the politics of Asian American food.

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