Day: June 16, 2021

TikTok food videos aim to combat unhealthy myth about ethnic cuisine

Growing up “as a brown kid in the West,” Jon Kung always felt like he was apologizing for the foods he ate, but the issue really became prominent for him in 2019 when white restaurateurs opened a “clean” Chinese food establishment in New York. At the time, owner and Manhattan nutritionist Arielle Haspel faced backlash for marketing the