Jon Kung In Conversation With Lyndsay C. Green
The Author Series Committee is honored to welcome Detroit-based chef Jon Kung, who published his first cookbook in 2023. Kung Food: Chinese American Recipes from a Third-Culture Kitchen is an exciting and unexpected collection of 100 recipes that re-examines Chinese American food. Jon will be joined by Detroit Free Press restaurant and dining critic Lyndsay C. Green, winner of the 2023 James Beard Journalism Award for Emerging Voice and a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
This is an in-person event. Tickets are not required, and seating will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis. After the conversation, copies of Jon's cookbook will be available for sale from Source Booksellers.
Questions? Email msummers@detroitpubliclibrary.org for help!
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About Jon: Jon Kung is the popular Chinese American chef, content creator and podcast host, who has amassed an online following of more than 2 million people for his unique style of third culture cooking, blending cultural traditions, flavors and ingredients that are meaningful and personal to him. After graduating from Eastern Michigan University with a bachelor’s degree in theater arts and creative writing and earning a law degree from University of Detroit Mercy, Jon changed career paths to focus on cooking. He worked in some of the top Detroit kitchens before launching his own successful pop-up Kung Food Market Studio. When the pandemic forced him to shut down his pop-up, he turned to social media, where he created instructional yet entertaining cooking videos exploring the vast Chinese diaspora and applying culinary techniques of traditional Chinese cooking (stir-frying, braising, creating broths, using a cleaver) onto global flavors and ingredients. In addition to developing recipes, Jon hosts the podcast 1 For The Table with his close friend, legendary makeup mogul and extraordinary drag queen Kim Chi. Kung Food: Chinese American Recipes from a Third Culture Kitchen is Jon’s debut cookbook.
About Lyndsay: Lyndsay C. Green is the dining and restaurant critic at the Detroit Free Press. In her role, she covers the gamut of metro Detroit’s food industry. Appointed in 2021, Green became the newspaper’s first Black restaurant critic, bringing an unprecedented perspective to local dining criticism. In Detroit, a predominantly Black city, Green has become a voice for diners whose cultural experiences have seldom been celebrated and whose stories have largely remained untold.
For her work in 2022, Green became a Pulitzer Prize finalist and earned a James Beard Award for Emerging Voice in Journalism. Green was named on the Future of Food 50 list by Cherry Bombe magazine and her essay, “Accidentally Anonymous,” is featured in the 2023 edition of “The Best American Food Writing” anthology series, curated by Mark Bittman, edited by Silvia Killingsworth and published by Mariner Books, a HarperCollins imprint.
Outside of the newsroom, Green is a food sovereignty advocate, who wants to empower everyone to grow their own food. She’s a founding board member of Crane Street Garden, a new urban farm aiming to provide fresh food to residents of Detroit’s east side; a supporter of Keep Growing Detroit, a nonprofit organization striving to transform Detroit into a food-sovereign city; and a volunteer at urban farms across the city of Detroit. At her own homestead, Green cultivates a variety of herbs, fruits, vegetables and eventually, honey from a hive she plans to install.
Green’s published articles can be found on freep.com. “The Green House Journal,” where she shares entries on her days in the garden, is published on lyndsaycgreen.com. Follow Green on Twitter and Instagram @LadyLuff.
| Date | Sunday, March 24, 2024 |
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| Time | 2:00pm - 4:00pm |
| Location | Main |
| Age Group | Adults |
| Category | Author Events, Food/Cooking |