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Date: 18 April 2007
From: instrcc This film is the first in a series of short films created about Eating Global Vancouver by students taught by Prof. Henry Yu of the History Department at the University of British Columbia, with help from award-winning filmmaker Karin Lee, and initially shown at the Asian Library at UBC as part of Asian Heritage Month in May 2006. Using restaurants as the focus for exploring the complex interactions of Vancouver and its migrant populations, this series uses food to examine how we come together as a global city. Green Lettuce, a restaurant run by an ethnic Chinese family from India, serves Chinese food in Vancouver as Chinese restaurants would in Bombay or Calcutta, attracting a loyal following of Indian immigrant customers who find a unique reminder of home. This film series grew out of one of our most popular classroom projects, in which students form groups and choose to research one of the myriad of restaurants that make Vancouver such a wonderful city for eating. Creating websites that feature intervi...   Tags: restaurants, restaurant, attracting, wonderful, classroom, migration, exploring, initially, customers, immigrant, filmmaker, following, research, heritage, projects, creating, websites, canadian, students, reminder - Related -
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