I am a cultural appropriator. I think I’m a white person from Colorado. I talk like one in the peculiarly flat, uninflected accent of the westernmost mid-west. I make white cultural references to things like Steve Gutenberg and Fiona Apple, and I developed a friend group comprised almost exclusively of white, middle-class people of similar educational backgrounds. I was born in Golden, CO, in the early seventies, and because the examples of my own race presented to me in the ruling culture were to a one humiliating and ridiculous, I hated that others saw me as Chinese.

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As a postmodern jack-of-all-trades, restaurateur, author, and food personality Eddie Huang has never shied away from being an onscreen presence. He’s been on several food-related TV shows over the last decade on MTV, Viceland, and The Cooking Channel.  His 2013 memoir, “Fresh Off the Boat,” was also made into an ABC sitcom that concluded earlier this year.

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Huang has never been behind the camera, however, until now.

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