{"id":26233,"date":"2014-05-07T10:08:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T14:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=26233"},"modified":"2014-05-30T21:16:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T01:16:05","slug":"fresh-off-the-boat-by-eddie-huang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/fresh-off-the-boat-by-eddie-huang\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Off the Boat by Eddie Huang"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Fresh<\/a>Sometimes my timing is so serendipitous, I wonder if I have a book angel whispering to me in my sleep. Somehow, I hit ‘play’ on this irreverent, potty-mouthed, guffaw-inducing, jaw-dropping memoir last week, only to see it pop up this week in my virtual world on practically every screen I hit!<\/p>\n

Here’s why:\u00a0Fresh Off the Boat<\/em>\u00a0has\u00a0moved from paper to celluloid<\/a>, and if all goes\u00a0right, the series should\u00a0be coming to your little screen. The series’ star\u00a0\u2013 as the young Eddie Huang <\/a>\u2013 is none other than Hudson Yang<\/a>, the 10-year-old son of Wall Street Journal<\/em> “Tao Jones<\/a>” columnist Jeff Yang<\/a> (who is also a\u00a0longtime friend and\u00a0co-author, too!). The APA community (and far beyond) is aTwitter with pushing for the pilot’s green light:\u00a0here’s why Daddy says the ABC-show-to-be\u00a0would be a major media game changer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before the series airs, here’s a chance to be oh-so in-the-know: READ THE BOOK! If\u00a0you choose to go aural\u00a0(highly recommended!), get ready to be blasted by none other than Huang himself. He apparently rode out Hurricane Sandy in NYC’s Midtown recording his own words in his own no-holds-barred-voice. He adds a few unscripted extras\u00a0here and there (including a rant on why this is\u00a0not<\/em> a food book; he does begrudgingly provide a single recipe) that you won’t find on the page \u2013 more\u00a0reason to hit ‘play.’<\/p>\n

Born in suburban Virginia\u00a0to immigrant Taiwanese Chinese parents, Huang moved to Orlando, Florida, when his father traded the family’s\u00a0failed furniture store for a seafood restaurant. First arriving at a Homewood Suites, the Huangs eventually settled in one of the area’s most affluent neighborhoods. While his parents were achieving the so-called American Dream, Huang was breaking every model-minority myth: he went in and out of too many private and public schools as if each\u00a0had rotating doors just for him; he knew when to make up stories about his parents when officers from the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services showed up (“There’s a difference between hitting your kids to discipline them and kicking the living sh*t out of them”); he sold rare Nikes, then drugs, but had a special affinity for Jonathan Swift;\u00a0he got into bloody brawls and still made it to class after\u00a0an Emergency Room stopover. Somehow,\u00a0he managed to eat his way through his many adventures, all the while searching for what being\u00a0Chinese American in the 21st century personally meant.<\/p>\n

His love affair with good food eventually led him to open BaoHaus<\/a>\u00a0(with both gratitude and a diss for Momofuku<\/a>‘s bad-boy chef\u00a0David Chang<\/a>\u00a0for introducing New York to the pork bun). From his Lower East Side kitchen<\/a>, he’s quickly\u00a0become an international foodie anti-hero, with his toothsome\u00a0tasting treks\u00a0already available\u00a0on\u00a0screen<\/a>. Of course,\u00a0when<\/em>\u00a0that impending green light shines on his network\u00a0series, the whole world will get to know him that much better. In the meantime, get reading … you’re gonna eat this stuff up.<\/p>\n

Tidbit<\/strong>: I just had to point out the entertaining ironies here: FOB via ABC. FOB\u00a0\u2013 as in Fresh Off the Boat\u00a0\u2013 via ABC\u00a0\u2013 the major network, yes, but ABC is also short for American Born Chinese, which FOB’s Huang most certainly is.<\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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