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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) will launch its inaugural food series, with a panel talk on food culture and family businesses, on December 5. The program is in conjunction with the Second Annual Marco Polo History Colloquium.<\/p>\n
Co-hosted with Two Bridges Neighborhood Council, and moderated by Erika Lesser (Former Executive Director, Slow Food USA), this panel consists of renowned food entrepreneurs Jason Wang (Xi’an Famous Foods) and Lou Di Palo (Di Palo Selects).<\/p>\n
At the panel, the entrepreneurs will share insights on their success stories and the stories behind their thriving businesses in New York City’s oldest and most famous neighborhoods. This discussion will be followed by a delicious food tasting session.<\/p>\n
Di Palo Selects is a 4th generation family business and their specialty store offers authentic Italian foods and hand-selected artisan ingredients in the Little Italy Historic District, New York City. Co-founder Lou Di Palo is personally involved in every facet of his family business.<\/p>\n
Xi’an Famous Foods introduced the unique and little-known cuisine of Xi’an to the United States, with signature hand-ripped noodles, secret spice mixes, and Xi’an “burgers” with house-made flatbread. Entrepreneur Jason Wang joined forces with his father to expand their family business, Xi’an Famous Foods.<\/p>\n
MOCA’s Signature Public Programs series, MOCAEATS mines the rich field of New York’s local, regional, and global cuisines through food tours, tastings, and talks with food writers, restaurateurs, and chefs.<\/p>\n
This public program is supported by the Harry K. Ligh Memorial Fund and Target. This program is free and open to the public.
\nRSVP to programs@mocanyc.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Date: Thursday, December 5, 2013 Event Time: 7.00 p.m. – 9.00 p.m. Location: Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre Street, New York, NY 10013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36558,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36555\/revisions\/36558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}