HOUSTON CHINESE PROFESSIONAL CLUB April, 2008
A presentation about Chinese Laundries and Southern Fried Rice to over 140 at a dinner that included many Mississippi Delta expatriates. It was a great chance to meet many people in person with whom I had had many prior e mail and telephone conversations about the Delta Chinese, especially Bobby Joe Moon. A bonus was being hosted by Phil Sun and his wife Chen. Phil is the brother of my Stockton fried, Sylvia Sun Minnick, And it was especially nice that one of my brightest former students, Adriana Alcantara, now a professor at U. of Houston, attended with her teenage daughter.
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Oct. 2009 Dinner Talk on Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton
It was a special opportunity to talk about my book on the Chinese grocers of the Mississippi Delta, "Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton," in Houston because so many in the audience had Delta roots as they had lived and worked in grocery stores in the Delta for many years before retiring to Houstion.
It was wonderful to get to see many of the friends I had made from my Houston visit during the previous year and enjoy making the acquaintance of others,
It was wonderful to get to see many of the friends I had made from my Houston visit during the previous year and enjoy making the acquaintance of others,
2016 Visit to Speak in Houston at A Soul Food Joint!
