24 Nov The Toast of Hong Kong
We were thrilled to be invited to speak at TEDxHongKong's recent forum "Edible Ideas". Little Adventures' team members Janice Leung Hayes and director/founder Daisann McLane dug deep into their idea box and came up with two terrific and very complimentary takes on the way that particular foods move in and out of different cultures and around the world. (Amazingly, Janice and Daisann didn't coordinate their talks--we are just tuned into the same channel. That's one of the things that makes our team such a fun and fascinating bunch of folks to work with!) Janice's talk followed the trail of the familiar Chinese egg roll around Asia and the world in all of its global manifestations--from the Australian fast food fave, the chiko roll, to the Philippine lumpia, the Vietnamese rice paper roll, and many others. Daisann's talk moved in the opposite direction: she looked at the way that Western industrial food like...