Edwyn Charles " Eddie " Huang (born March 1, 1982) is a chef, restaurant owner, writer, food personality, producer, and American lawyer. He has a BaoHaus, a Gua-Bao restaurant in the East Village of Manhattan. He previously hosted Huang's World for Viceland. Huang's autobiography, Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir, was later adapted into a television series of the same name, broadcast on ABC.
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Eddie Huang was born in Washington, D.C., to Jessica and Louis Huang, who are immigrants from Taiwan. The two of them are waishengren from Taiwan, their father's and mother's ancestral houses are in Hunan and Shandong in Mainland China, respectively. Huang grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, but later moved to Orlando, Florida, where his father runs a group of successful steak and seafood restaurants, including "Atlantic Bay Seafood and Grill" and "Cattleman's Ranch Steakhouse". He values ​​African-American culture, especially hip-hop, at a young age. He also often fought, was arrested twice for alleged assault while growing up.
Ms. Huang attended the University of Pittsburgh and Rollins College, graduating with a B.A. in English and Film from Rollins in 2004. In Rollins, she also won Barbara Lawrence Alfond English Award and Zora Neale Hurston Award, and editor of Sports and Humor for the school newspaper, The Sandspur. In 2008, Huang earned a JD from Cardozo Law School at Yeshiva University. At Cardozo, Huang worked at the Innocent Project, serving as President of the Minority Law Student Association and as Vice President of the Asia Pacific Law Student Association, and also winning the New York City Bar Association Minority Association in 2006.
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Careers
Huang's first job as an attorney worked in corporate law at Chadbourne & Parke in New York City. He worked as a summer associate in 2006 and 2007, then hired as an associate at the Corporate Department in 2008. Within a year, due to the 2007-08 financial crisis, Huang was dismissed, and started working as a comic and marijuana dealer dealer.
Designer clothes
From 2006 to 2009, Huang runs a streetwear company called "Hoodman Clothing," originally named "Bergdorf Hoodman." At Hoodman, Huang created a clothing design with Art Director Ning Juang, a graphic designer he met in Taiwan.
Chef and restaurant owner
Huang is also interested in food as he matures watching his mother cook at home. He also studied cooking techniques from various chefs with different cultural backgrounds and cooking styles working in his father's restaurant. He studied management and how to be a good expeditor: a restaurant employee who manages information and order communications between the back and front of the restaurant, ensuring that the food is prepared in the correct order as efficiently and quickly as possible and served to customers in the highest quality condition. Working as an expeditor is a skill he learned from his father. In 2011 Huang was named Chow 13 which is a list of influential people in the food served annually by Chow.com.
Restaurants
In December 2009, Huang opened BaoHaus, a Taiwanese bakery, on Lower Lower Side of Manhattan. In July 2011, he relocated his first store to 238 East 14th Street in the East Village with an expanded menu.
Another restaurant, Xiao Ye, was less successful and closed after bad reviews and controversy over Four Loko's sales. Sam Sifton, reviewer for the New York Times gave the restaurant a zero (out of four) stars, and wrote that "if Huang spends even a third of his cooking time writing a funny blog post and making Twitter updates, posting hip-hop videos and responding to friends, Internet friends, rivals, critics and customers, Xiao Ye may be one of the more exciting restaurants to open in New York City in recent months. "
Author
Huang created a blog called
Double Cup Love: On the Family, Food, and Heartwarming Trail in China published in 2016.
Television
Huang held the Cheap Bite on the Cook Channel at the end of 2011 and also appeared in several episodes Unique Food before leaving the Cooking Channel for Viceland, where he hosted a recurring segment, Also called Fresh Off the Boat , which was later developed into an hour-long show and changed to Huang's World.
Fresh from the Boat
In 2014, ABC ordered a television series based on his book, also called Fresh Off the Boat , starring Randall Park and Constance Wu, with Hudson Yang playing Eddie. The show debuted with two preview episodes on February 4, 2015, and aired in prime time slots on February 10, 2015.
Huang is vocal in his critique of the show's development process, writing a long essay about his worries that his vision for the show was compromised. Huang says that he is not watching the show, because he thinks that the storyline after the pilot episode is not what he wrote in his memoir.
Controversy
In 2012, Huang was named TED Fellow 2013. He then requested that his TED fellowship be revoked for not attending any conferences, pursuant to a partnership agreement. He went on to compare TED with "Scientology summer camp".
Huang drew criticism in May 2015 for comments he made about black women during an interview on Real Time With Bill Maher . He said, "I feel like Asians have been so castrated in America that we are basically treated like black women." Then he got involved in a Twitter exchange on his @MrEddieHuang account with @BlackGirlDanger where he defended his comment, called "misogynoir". Huang then tweeted "do we date you wildin Lol" and offer to ask her out on a date.
Huang has also drawn criticism for African-American cultural appropriation. Huang has stated: "I have devoted myself to talking about people who have their own culture that they create, that they come with, and educate people about the basic values ​​in culture." However, The New York Times refers to Huang as a "mixed collection of postmodern cultures." Some claim that Huang showed "language and misogynist attitude", non-conventional English speech and dress , and experience with police showing "adoption of hip hop-influenced person".
Work and publication
- Huang, Eddie. Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir . New York: Spiegel & amp; Grau, 2013; ISBN 978-0-679-64488-0
- Huang, Eddie. Love Double Cup: On the Family Path, Food, and Broken Hearts in China . New York: Spiegel & amp; Grau, [2016]
- The World of Huang (Viceland) 2016
See also
- American Chinese in New York City
- American Taiwanese
References
External links
- Fresh Off The Boat (Huang blog)
- Eddie Huang on IMDb
- Eddie Huang on Twitter
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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