About Jenny
Jenny Lau is a writer, community builder, and founder of Celestial Peach and the Asian Slaw Alliance. Lau takes a ‘philosophical and cultural approach to food in a search for balance and meaning in a material world’. Celestial Peach is a platform telling stories about Chinese food in the diaspora, and the people and cultures behind it. Jenny writes in her Substack Eating For Longevity, Chewing On Identity exploring topics of Chinese-, Asian- and diaspora-adjacent identity, language, food, culture, philosophy and arts.
On 13 Sept. Jenny will host a panel event ‘In Our Prime’ with Wiz Wharton, Bich Tyler and Qu Lei Lei: Book a ticket for the event.
Summary
We discuss journeys of belonging, Chinese diasporic routes, ESEA heritage, being culturally bilingual, learning Cantonese, community building, the commodification of food and culture and our responses to this commodification, food as a means of both care and control, the body as home, Mariana Ortega’s philosophical concept of ‘home tactics’, Chinese philosophy, and other subjects.
Our theme music is by Alix Julian Edwards
Photo credit: Ming Tang-Evans
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