Minnesota Rice: Twin Cities Chefs Team Up To Combat Racism
By Cinnamon Janzer | FoodAndWine.Com Troy Warren for CNT Asian American chefs are sharing their stories the best way they know how—through food. A year of rising anti-Asian violence came to a head in March when a white man went on a shooting spree across three Atlanta-area spas, ultimately counting six Asian-American women among his victims. "It was something that sent a shock wave through our community," says chef Christina Nguyen of Hai Hai and Hola Arepa. Like the "Minnesota nice" culture that encourages a polite, reserved, and mild-mannered approach to social interactions—especially potentially heated ones—many Asian Americans are similarly conditioned. "For a…