Tasting Education with Chopsticks: A Diasporic Hakka Cuisine

• In Event: Tasting Curriculum

Abstract

This paper draws on the different methodological dimensions of currere to share the migration stories of the author’s family in relation what he is calling Tasting Education with Chopsticks: A Diasporic Hakka Cuisine. Through the metaphor of chopsticks, embodied extensions of what lies at our fingertips, this chapter juxtaposes different life narrative snapshot that not only stir and blend but also seek to probe and unravel the layered textures of settler colonial foodscapes (Kawai, 2022).Through such culinary metaphors, its tastes of education, my paper seeks to illustrate the powerful role of food, its foodscapes, and agency in family stories, in the kitchen, around the table, work to maintain our senses, our tastes, of cultural continuity, while simultaneously acting as an agent of change and resistance in the face of migration and different settler colonial governmental regimes.

Author

• Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, University of Ottawa