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In the last couple of months, three fantastic cookbooks that contextualize what it means to cook Chinese food from a second-generation perspective have been published. Taken together, they provide a snapshot of how the authors of these books detail the push-and-pull of assimilation into Western culture as children while also maintaining connections to previous generations’ cultures and traditions by learning to cook from the most important women in their lives.
In “My Shanghai: Recipes and Stories From a City on the Water,” Boston-based blogger and author Betty Liu details the cooking of Jiangsu province, or “the land of water” just north of Shanghai, with influences from the Zhejiang province to the south and the “hard-to-describe” cooking of Shanghai proper. As Liu states, “Shanghai’s culinary borders are blurred, drawing deeply from its neighbors.”
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or as long as I’ve lived in the Bay Area, I’ve spent more time searching for Taiwanese food than I have actually eating it.
I’ve driven 90 minutes in traffic to snag a so-so plate of stinky tofu. I’ve stood in line for four hours for takeout Taiwanese breakfast. And who knows how long I’ve spent scouring online discussion forums and Yelp listings for even the briefest mention of lu rou fan or beef noodle soup?
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Among the reforms, Breed said officers would no longer respond to calls that do not involve a threat to public safety. Instead, police would be replaced by trained, unarmed professionals to limit unnecessary confrontation between the police department and the community.
The non-criminal calls include neighbor disputes, reports on homeless people and school discipline interventions, among other activities.
The city also said at the time that it would strengthen police accountability policies, ban the use of military-grade weapons and divert funding to address disparities in the Black community.
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