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westernartgirlEating What We’re Reading
Some of author Nicole Mones’s most avid fans got a chance on Sunday to sample what she writes about in The Last Chinese Chef when they gathered at Chang’s Garden, a restaurant in Arcadia, at an Autry-sponsored luncheon in the style of China’s most sophisticated cuisine. About 70 diners showed up at 1 p.m. Sunday, … Read more
Food as a Vehicle for “Guanxi:” Nicole Mones
Nicole Mones says that guanxi is the basis for absolutely everything that happens in China. Guanxi is a word in Chinese that conveys relationships among people. And those relationships are invariably built across a dining table, while sharing food. This is something the author has learned as she worked in China beginning in 1977, and … Read more
Going East: Remembering a Different Kind of Immigrant Experience
They were just children, and to them, Angel Island was a place of uncertainty, boredom, sadness and separation. For myriad reasons, they had signed on to cross the Pacific Ocean by boat and emigrate to the place they had been told was Gim San, the “Golden Mountain”– the name Chinese on the mainland used to … Read more
As Federal Court Rules, LGBT Rights Move Front and Center
The federal appeals court ruling Tuesday on California’s Proposition 8, which invalidated the state’s voter-approved ban on gay marriage, got Gregory Hinton thinking about how he became friends with Alan K. Simpson, the Republican former senator from Wyoming. Simpson has long been a supporter of equal rights for all people, regardless of their sexual orientation. … Read more
