April 20th, 2021, 1:33PM / BY Lauren Lyons
CULINASIA panel discussions will be held May 5, May 19, June 9 and June 23.
Asian foods and cooking have long been an indelible part of America’s food culture, and yet we also harbor complicated relationships with the people who prepare our meals. Earlier this year, Asian American activists carried signs reading “Love Us Like You Love Our Food” as they denounced a surge of anti-Asian racism in communities across the United States during the global pandemic.
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Louise Mabulo of The Cacao Project
Gamechanging Producer Louise Mabulo is a chef and the founder of The Cacao Project, an initiative that seeks to help farmers work sustainably and make a profit. The social venture came about following a typhoon in Mabulo’s home of San Fernando, Camarines Sur in 2016 when Mabulo, just 18 at the time, saw the impact of the typhoon on farmers’ livelihoods. Identifying that cacao plants were among the few crops still standing post-typhoon, her disaster relief assistance stretched into the longer term as she encouraged the planting of more resilient crops. The Cacao Project has helped more than 200 farmers plant 80,000 trees across 70 hectares to date and Mabulo hopes to extend her scope of work to include a series of chocolate products. In addition to her agriculture advocacy, Mabulo runs The Culinary Lounge, a farm-to-table kitchen space, which hosts workshops, pop-up dinners and other events.
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: âEspecially in the U.S., Moringa has been co-opted so that itâs divorced from its origins. Ekom works with smallholder producers across south India [and West Bengal], highlighting different varieties of Moringa and how theyâre traditionally used in India. She sells a Moringa face mask as well as pure Moringa for consumption.â
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: âWhat sheâs able to do for the farming community of Manipur amazes me. Not only does she run Hill Wild, her chocolate business that uses ingredients indigenous to the hills of Ukhrul, like perilla seeds and ghost peppers, but she also manages sourcing for Diaspora and is constantly acting as a food hub for producers in the region. Recently there was a surplus of kiwi, so she turned it into kiwi candy.â
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