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Few in the food world want to touch the Palestine issue. Here s why one S.F. bar is speaking up
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Mohamed Dahleh waves the flag of Palestine while on the shoulders of Munir Abughannam in solidarity with hundreds of protesters outside the Israeli Consulate, Tuesday, May 18, 2021, in San Francisco, Calif.Santiago Mejia/The Chronicle
Two weeks ago, when the current Israel-Palestine crisis began unfolding in the Gaza Strip, I noticed that a lot more people especially non-activists were talking about it in public. But in my part of the woods, the food world, the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories hasn’t really been a topic of conversation, though diners have long-embraced the region’s cuisines at Israeli restaurants like Philadelphia’s Zahav and Oren’s Hummus in San Francisco. If there was any conversation about Palestine, it was largely driven by Arab American women like chef-activists Amanny Ahmad and Reem
Japanese Breakfast s Michelle Zauner Talks New Book on Daily Show
Zauner discusses inspiration behind her memoir Crying in H Mart and her upcoming album Jubilee
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The Daily Show on Wednesday to discuss her new memoir,
Crying in H Mart. The book, which quickly shot up the
New York Times bestseller list upon its release last month, examines Zauner’s relationship to the Korean-American cooking she grew up with in the wake of her mother’s death.
“I didn’t think about it resonating much with anyone, to be honest,” Zauner told host Trevor Noah. “It came from such a personal place, with such a sense of urgency, I think, to bare the wounds of caretaking and losing someone to illness. And this very unique experience that I went through, which was learning how to cook Korean dishes as a way to commemorate my mother, and a way to move past trauma and preserve my cultural heritage.”