129: Third Culture Cooking, TikTok Foods, and Kung Food Cookbook with Jon Kung
AnthroDish28 Mai 2024

129: Third Culture Cooking, TikTok Foods, and Kung Food Cookbook with Jon Kung

For our last episode this season, we're exploring what it means to cook from a third culture kitchen. There's been growing discussions online of what it means to be a third culture kid or a third culture individual. My guest today, Jon Kung, is one of the best people to speak to how third culture experiences can play out through food, cooking, and kitchen spaces.

Jon is a popular Chinese American chef, content creator, and podcast host of 1 For the Table with legendary drag queen Kim Chi. Jon has amassed a following of over 2 million people for their unique style of third culture cooking, which blends cultural traditions, flavours, and ingredients that hold personal meaning to them. After graduating from Eastern Michigan University with a bachelor's degree in theatre arts and creative writing, and then earning a law degree from University of Detroit Mercy, Jon changed career paths to focus on cooking. They worked in some of the top Detroit kitchens before launching their successful Kung Food Market Studio pop-up. As the pandemic forced the pop-up to shut down, Jon turned to social media to create instructional and entertaining cooking videos that explore the vast Chinese diaspora, and apply culinary techniques of traditional Chinese cooking onto global flavours and ingredients.

Jon is on the show today to discuss their debut cookbook, Kung Food: Chinese American Recipes from a Third Culture Kitchen. We explore what it means to cook through third culture lenses, the 2010s rebrand of American fusion cooking and its impact on the idea of authenticity and third culture expressions in food, TikTok food landscapes, how Jon translated their dishes and videos into a cookbook format, and Toronto's early 2000s obsession pizza obsession.

Learn More About Jon:

Episoder(182)

111: Reframing Cookbooks, and Salad as Comfort Food with Nat and Bec Davey of Reframeables

111: Reframing Cookbooks, and Salad as Comfort Food with Nat and Bec Davey of Reframeables

When you think about comfort food, what types of meals or dishes come to mind – is it mashed potatoes and gravy, the best of your grandmother's kitchens, or a chickpea curry? Often we have this idea a...

21 Nov 202356min

110: Creating Safer Community for Breweries and Vulnerable Neighbours with Ren Navarro of B.Diversity

110: Creating Safer Community for Breweries and Vulnerable Neighbours with Ren Navarro of B.Diversity

Alcohol has been navigating a new social landscape in America and Canada since COVID hit. While there were signs that alcohol consumption was rising with lockdowns, there's also been more spaces for c...

14 Nov 202337min

109: Campus Food System Alternatives as Organizing Tools with Dr. Michael Classens

109: Campus Food System Alternatives as Organizing Tools with Dr. Michael Classens

When we think about food security and food systems, it can easily be imagined as a large national or state or provincial level experience. Yet many young adults increasingly are experiencing the uniqu...

7 Nov 202332min

108: Understanding Community through Fermentation with Dr. Julia Skinner

108: Understanding Community through Fermentation with Dr. Julia Skinner

In 2023, we're facing increased food prices, tech-heavy innovations around lab grown foods for climate change, and heavily industrialized and packaged foods. Amidst that, though, there's still interes...

31 Okt 202341min

107: Unpacking Wellness through Personalized Nutrition & Genetic Diets with Dr. Tina Sikka

107: Unpacking Wellness through Personalized Nutrition & Genetic Diets with Dr. Tina Sikka

With increasingly wearable and seamless tech experiences, there is a growing ability for us to monitor almost every phase of our day: what we eat, how much we eat, how we exercise, and how it all alig...

24 Okt 202337min

106: Rethinking Cowboy Food through the Unofficial Yellowstone Cookbook with Jackie Alpers

106: Rethinking Cowboy Food through the Unofficial Yellowstone Cookbook with Jackie Alpers

Food on popular television shows can be a storytelling mechanism, particularly in terms of building a sense of place and history. While the television show can tell a specific story, there can be a wh...

17 Okt 202343min

105: Weaving Ancient Korean Cookbooks with Seasonal Local Food with Ji Hye Kim

105: Weaving Ancient Korean Cookbooks with Seasonal Local Food with Ji Hye Kim

When we think about "authentic" food experiences – what are we really explicitly looking for? Oftentimes the idea of authenticity can be exoticized to represent a particular type of ethnic cuisine at ...

10 Okt 202343min

104: Season 8, Take 2 Launch [Solo Episode]

104: Season 8, Take 2 Launch [Solo Episode]

We're going to try launching season 8... again. In this solo episode, I go into more detail about a burnout I experienced last year, how I got in my head about "failing" as a podcaster, and honouring ...

3 Okt 20238min

Populært innen Samfunn

rss-spartsklubben
giver-og-gjengen-vg
aftenpodden
konspirasjonspodden
aftenpodden-usa
lydartikler-fra-aftenposten
popradet
rss-nesten-hele-uka-med-lepperod
rss-henlagt-andy-larsgaard
alt-fortalt
grenselos
min-barneoppdragelse
wolfgang-wee-uncut
krisemoter
fladseth
rss-dette-ma-aldri-skje-igjen
rss-dannet-uten-piano
synnve-og-vanessa
rss-frekvens-med-anine-olsen
frokostshowet-pa-p5