The series has been shown at the Smithsonian and was nominated for an IACP digital media award.
In 2020 she partnered with the James Beard Foundation on an Instagram campaign to #savechineserestaurants.
Many family-owned eateries and shops saw their businesses drop 40 to 80 percent.
This staggering loss has proved to be exceedingly difficult to recover from for many AAPI-owned businesses.
Conducting these interviews and hearing the heartbreaking stories of what theyd been experiencing deeply moved me, Young says.
However, it became clear soon enough that other Asian-owned communities and businesses faced similar burdens as well.
An award-winning cookbook author, culinary historian, and filmmaker, Grace has been a fierce advocate for Chinatown, never more so than in her video series Coronavirus: Chinatown Stories. The series has been shown at the Smithsonian and was nominated for an IACP digital media award. In 2020 she partnered with the James Beard Foundation on an Instagram campaign to #savechineserestaurants. Building on that campaign she is now partnering with the James Beard Foundation and Poster House museum on the #LoveAAPI social media campaign to fight anti-Asian hate. In 2022, Grace has been recognized as Humanitarian of the Year by the James Beard Foundation for her work to save America’s Chinatowns amid AAPI hate during the pandemic.
So many of the legacy restaurants that weve lost are our last link to immigrant cooking from generations past.
We need to do everything in our power to preserve and protect [these neighborhoods and businesses].
If we dont show our support by eating and shopping regularly, we will lose them, says Young.
(Moreover, they note that hate crimes and bias incidents are largely under-reported.)
Plus, the NYPD reported a361 percent increase in anti-Asian hate crimes in 2021compared to the previous year.
Tell your friends and followers to do the same, she shares.
K. Discount, one of her favorite NYC Chinatown mom and pop stores, Young says.
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