Food as Home and Heritage: Angela Hui and Anna Sulan Masing in Conversation

Writer and editor Angela Hui is joined in conversation by writer, poet and academic Anna Sulan Masing. Hui and Masing will discuss their respective writing and research, exploring heritage, home and belonging through stories about food.

Hui’s 2022 memoir TAKEAWAY documents her own family’s Chinese takeaway in rural Wales, recounting her childhood living and working there in the 1990s. The takeaway, and its dishes, embody Hui’s experiences of otherness, but also resilience, family, and relationships. Her upcoming projects include a wide-ranging series exploring Chinatowns in the UK.

Masing has developed numerous projects around food and creating communities: her upcoming book Chinese And Any Other Asian considers the multiple and varied experiences that make up East and South East Asian identity in Britain. Her work addresses identity, race and gender and looks to decolonise the cultural spaces we live in.

Taking place during Studio Voltaire’s Open House 2024, this event forms part of the public programmes for by Lap-See Lam.

About Angela Hui

Hui is an award-winning writer and editor. She was the former food and drink editor at Time Out and lifestyle reporter at HuffPost. Her work has been widely published in the BBC, gal-dem, Guardian, Financial Times, Independent, Lonely Planet, Metro, National Geographic Traveller, Refinery29, and Vice, among others. Her first non-fiction book TAKEAWAY: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter was BBC Radio 4's book of the week and The Guardian, i News and Waterstones book of the year.

About Anna Sulan Masing

Masing is an academic, writer, poet and podcaster. She writes about food, drink and the hospitality industry for publications globally, including the BBC, Guardian, and Vittles. Her podcast, Taste of Place, explores nostalgia and re-looking at the past through the story of pepper. Masing’s book Chinese and Any Other Asian: Exploring East and South East Asian Identity in Britain will be published in February 2025.

Access

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Image credit
1) Credit: Kenneth Lam. 2) Credit: Patricia Niven.

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