Wednesday, March 15 06:30pm to 08:30pm
Museum of Chinese in America
215 Centre Street New York, NY 10013
In his new book, Ten Restaurants that Changed America, Paul Freedman reveals how the history of our restaurants reflect nothing less than the history of America itself. Whether charting the rise of our love affair with Chinese food through San Francisco’s fabled The Mandarin, evoking the richness of Italian food through Mamma Leone’s, or chronicling the rise and fall of French haute cuisine through Henri Soulé’s Le Pavillon, Freedman uses each restaurant to tell a wider story of race and class, immigration and assimilation.
In conjunction with MOCA’s exhibit Sour, Sweet, Bitter, Spicy: Stories of Chinese Food and Identity in America, please join co-curator Kian Kho Lam in conversation with Freedman about his book and on how Cecilia Chiang’s restaurant The Mandarin influenced American’s palate and craving for Chinese food.
For tickets visit: www.mocanyc.org