All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 August Jess Ho's 'unflinching' hospitality memoir is a Cantonese-Australian Kitchen Confidential Jess Ho's 'unflinching' hospitality memoir is a Cantonese-Australian Kitchen Confidential 15/08/2022 | 4 MINS This article by Cecilia Leong-Salobir Honorary Research Fellow at Lombok Institute of Technology was originally published in The Conversation on 15 August. Raised by Wolves is like Anthony BourdainΓÇÖs Kitchen Confidential, if it were told by a second-generation Cantonese Australian from Hong Kong, whose work in the food industry spans 15 years. Jess Ho combines a compelling, unflinching critique of the Melbourne food scene with memories of an abusive childhood. This brilliantly written memoir discusses exploitative labour in the restaurant and bar industries, culinary appropriation ΓÇô and enduring racism, sexism, alcohol abuse, depression, grief and loss. Ho threads Chinese culture into the fabric of the book, reflecting how deeply itΓÇÖs woven into who they are. ΓÇ£Culturally, spite was one pillar of being Chinese,ΓÇ¥ they quip at on
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Raised by Wolves is like Anthony BourdainΓÇÖs Kitchen Confidential, if it were told by a second-generation Cantonese Australian from Hong Kong, whose work in the food industry spans 15 years.
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Jess Ho combines a compelling, unflinching critique of the Melbourne food scene with memories of an abusive childhood.
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This brilliantly written memoir discusses exploitative labour in the restaurant and bar industries, culinary appropriation ΓÇô and enduring racism, sexism, alcohol abuse, depression, grief and loss.
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Ho threads Chinese culture into the fabric of the book, reflecting how deeply itΓÇÖs woven into who they are.
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ΓÇ£Culturally, spite was one pillar of being Chinese,ΓÇ¥ they quip at on
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