“We sit here in silence, eating our lunch. But I know we are all here for the same reason. We’re all searching for a piece of home, or a piece of ourselves. We look for a taste of it in the food we order and the ingredients we buy.”
Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart
Hello & welcome to my project, Feeding the Diaspora! A long-beloved interest of mine as someone belonging to multiple diasporas & a multicultural background has been how food & culture intermingle, through this project I seek to research & reflect on how food acts as a tether to home countries & cultural pasts for diaspora groups, specifically those living in the U.S. Along with my own family history, I will be utilizing texts such as What We Hunger For: Refugee and Immigrant Stories about Food and Family edited by Sun Yung Shin and Tastes Like War by Grace M. Cho, as well as my column, also titled Feeding the Diaspora, in The Evergreen State College’s student newspaper The Cooper Point Journal to explore the intersections of food, family, and culture.
Defining ‘Diaspora’; a diaspora is formed when people belonging to a cultural and/or ethnic group are living in a place that is not their or their ancestor’s country of origin.