Masarap!—10/30/2008

Masarap! It's Delicious!

Filipino American History Month Celebrated at the Smithsonian

Photos by Ricky Leung

In celebration of Filipino American History Month, a hundred intent listeners gathered for an evening discussion on "Filipino American Culture and Cuisine" at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden's Ring Auditorium on October 30, 2008.

Moderating the discussion was Martin F. Manalansan IV, an associate professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America and is currently writing a book entitled Altered Tastes: Beyond a Palatable Multiculturalism, an ethnography of Asian American immigrant spaces, fusion and ethnic cuisines, and olfaction in New York City. [...]

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