On Diverse Leadership: Rest in Peace, Senator Inouye

Senator Daniel Inouye, who passed away last week at the fortuitous age of 88, had much to teach about diverse leadership. Read More

Voting is our Yelp for Politicians

We’re already paying for the service (in taxes), so voting is like a big customer comment board. As soon as we tune out, service gets worse. Read More

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An Asian American Farm Bill

Imagine if just a quarter of our enthusiasm for food were channeled to changing the bill that affects every aspect of food production here and abroad: our impact would be felt. Read More

On the trail of citrus visionary Lue Gim Gong

Alissa Hamilton is a former Food & Society Fellow, lawyer and scholar from Toronto. She's written a seminal book on the origins and manufacture of Read More

Hello: No “Agent Orange Corn,” Please!

This article on the possible deregulation of crazy-sounding "Agent Orange corn" really freaked me out. I'd rather not have a chemical arms race taking Read More

Romancing the Wok

As we wrote about in Hyphen Issue 20, the physics of the wok are not child’s play. A mystical marriage of meats and greens occurs when natural oils have built up on the wok’s metal surface, creating a natural nonstick coating also called “seasoning.” Read More

Sea Change

Phuong Nguyen has worked in and out of the crab industry for 30 years. He learned how to fish in Vietnam before immigrating in 1982, eventually buying his own boat and house after many years of hardscrabble work. Read More

In Praise of Asian American Grocers

Pioneering Asian American markets like Uwajimaya’s and yes, Fou Lee, have been serving fresh, affordable and culturally diverse foods to Seattleites for almost acentury. When First Lady Michelle Obama announced the Healthy Food Financing Initiative to increase food access in urban areas, she failed to mention the key role of Asian American markets. They deserve at least the same tax benefits and laudatory statements as Wal-Mart and Walgreens. Read More

In Seattle, Growing Culture is Sustainable Growth

Seattle embodies the diversity, contradictions and great talent that define our Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community: wealth and poverty, hunger and abundance, access or exclusion based on citizenship and English language proficiency. Read More