Next viewing
Sunday, June 2 at 1:00 am, 7:00 am, and 1:00 pm
on TPT-MN channel
Watch online anytime at:
http://www.mnvideovault.org/mvvPlayer/customPlaylist2.php?id=24552&select_index=0&popup=yes#0
By Phyllis Louise Harris
May
2013
Asian
Flavors the half-hour television show based on the book published by the
Minnesota Historical Society Press premiered Sunday, May 26 on TPT’s MS channel
at 7:00 p.m. It brought to the screen
eight of the seventy stories from the book with interviews, restaurant and home
visits and discussions with just a few of the people who brought Asian flavors
to Minnesota.
Directed by TPT’s Senior Producer
and Partnership Manager Daniel Pierce Bergin and with major funding from the
Minnesota Historical Society, the show is a colorful glimpse of the 138-year
history of Asian food in Minnesota. From
the first Asian restaurant in 1883 that became John’s Place to the young Asian
fusion chefs of today, the show traces the growth of Asian food in the state
starting with Chinese and expanding to Japanese, Korean, Hmong, Thai, and more,
until today there are 1100 Asian restaurants throughout the state. In addition, there are thousands of home
cooks who share their traditional dishes with friends and neighbors, bakeries,
markets, farmers and food producers that bring to the state a multitude of
Asian flavors and culinary traditions.
Bring Asian cooking into your own kitchen through the more than 160 recipes in Asian Flavors: Changing the Tastes of
Minnesota since 1875, now in bookstores and on amazon.com.
Buy online: Asian Flavors: Changing the Tastes of Minnesota since 1875
