AANHPI Heritage Month

Celebrate Asian American, Native Hawaiian, & Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month here at Emma Clark!

Cooking with Chef Rashimi: Mango Lassi and Vegetable Pakora (In-Person)
Tuesday, May 12, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. 
In this cooking demonstration, Chef Rashmi will make a creamy, sweet and refreshing mango lassi, the iconic Indian summer drink. She will also prepare vegetable pakoras (crispy vegan fritters) served with a tangy tamarind chutney. Food samples and recipes will be provided. This program is made possible by the Philip Groia Global Studies bequest. Click here to register now.

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Evening Book Discussion: Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (In-Person)
Wednesday, May 13, 7:30 – 8:45 p.m. 
Pick up a copy of the book at the Circulation Desk in the Library Lobby starting 4/8.
Summary: From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean-American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up the only Asian-American kid at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother’s particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother’s tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food. As she grew up, moving to the east coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, performing gigs with her fledgling band – and meeting the man who would become her husband – her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mother’s diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her.
No registration required.

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The Tenement Museum Virtual Tour: The Wong Family (Online)
Wednesday, May 27, 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. 
A live Tenement Museum Educator will take you inside the museum’s recreated historic spaces. Explore the story of the Wongs, a Chinese American family who lived in 103 Orchard Street in the 1970s. Look at how they made a home and how their experiences reflect the growth of Chinese communities and the garment industry in New York in the wake of changing immigration laws. Click here to register now.

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