Dr. Jennifer Cho's Asian American Foodways Class featured in the DBK

On Thursday, April 27, 2023, the Diamondback published an article, “UMD students explore Asian American food and history with hands-on demo”. The article highlighted AAST298G (Asian American Foodways) taught by Dr. Jennifer Cho, AAST Lecturer.

Students in an Asian American food history class hosted a cooking demonstration Tuesday at the UMD Campus Pantry, in honor of APIDA Heritage Month.

AAST298G, a foodways class, is taught by Jennifer Cho, a lecturer in this university’s Asian American Studies program. As an extra credit assignment for the class, a few students came up with an idea to host a cooking demo for Spam musubi, a Hawaiian food staple and a popular dish in many Asian countries.

“I think foodways for Asian Americans are really an important space for exploration,” Cho said, “[It’s] been one way to really pronounce the racial difference and the otherness.”

You can read the full article here.