Eddie Huang

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Eddie Huang, 2013 in NYC

Eddie Charles Huang (born March 1, 1982 in Washington, DC ) is an American writer , chef , restaurateur , food personality, producer and lawyer .

He is a co-owner of BaoHaus, a Gua Bao restaurant in the East Village of Lower Manhattan . Huang previously hosted Huang's World for Viceland. His autobiography, Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir, was later translated into the television series Fresh Off the Boat of the same name , which is broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC).

Adolescent years and training

Huang was born in Washington, DC, to Jessica and Louis Huang, who were immigrants and former Waishengren from Taiwan . The father's ancestors came from Hunan and his mother of Shandong from the Chinese mainland .

Huang grew up in Washington DC, Silver Spring, MD, and North Virginia, but then moved to Orlando, Florida , where his father ran a successful group of steak and seafood restaurants, including the Atlantic Bay Seafood and Grill and the Cattleman's Ranch Steakhouse ". Valued African American culture , especially hip-hop at a young age , he was frequently involved in fights and was arrested twice for assault during his youth . Huang first visited the Dr. Phillips High School, then the University of Pittsburgh and Rollins College in Winter Park , Florida, where he graduated with a BA in English and Film in 2004 .

At Rollins, he also won the Barbara Lawrence Alfond English Award and the Zora Neale Hurston Award, and was the sports and humor editor for the school newspaper The Sandspur . In 2008, Huang received his Juris Doctor degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at the private Jewish Yeshiva University in New York City . At the Cardozo School of Law, Huang worked on the Innocence Project , was President of the Minority Law Students Association and Vice President of the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, and won the New York City Bar Association Minority Fellowship in 2006.

Career

Huang's first tenure was at Chadbourne & Parke law firm in New York City, where he served as a corporate lawyer . From 2006 to 2007 he only worked in the summer months before he was hired in 2008 as an employee in the firm's corporate department. However, he was fired within just one year as a result of the 2007 Great Depression and began working as a stand-up comedian and marijuana dealer.

Clothing designer

From 2006 to 2009, Huang ran a streetwear company called Hoodman Clothing, which was originally called Bergdorf Hoodman. At Hoodman, Huang created clothing designs with art director Ning Juang, a graphic designer he met in Taiwan.

Chef and restaurateur

Since Huang, who had watched his mother cook at home in his youth, also had an interest in preparing food, he himself learned the cooking techniques from the chefs with different cultural backgrounds and cooking styles who worked in his father's restaurants. Here he learned management and how to become a good advertiser (English. Expediteur): a restaurant employee who controls the communication of information and orders between the back and front of the restaurant and ensures that the food is served as efficiently and quickly as possible prepared in the correct order and presented to the customer under the highest quality conditions. Working as an expeditor was a skill he learned from his father. In 2011, Huang was named Chow 13, a list of influential people in the food industry presented annually by the CBS Food interactive website, Chow.com.

Restaurants

In December 2009, Huang opened a BaoHaus, a Taiwanese gua bao (German: pork belly or lotus leaf bun) in the Lower East Side of Lower Manhattan. In July 2011, he moved his first store to 14th Street (Manhattan) in the East Village (Manhattan) and expanded his menu.

Another restaurant, Xiao Ye, was less successful and closed after poor reviews and controversy over the sale of the alcoholic drink Four Loko. New York Times reviewer Sam Sifton gave the restaurant zero (out of four) stars, writing that "if Mr. Huang spent a third of the time cooking instead of writing funny blog posts and crooked Twitter updates, hip." Posting hop videos and responding to internet friends, rivals, critics and customers, Xiao Ye could be one of the more interesting restaurants to open in New York City in the past few months " .

author

Huang first created the blog Fresh Off the Boat and later published his first book entitled Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir with the publisher Random House under the same name. Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir was published in early 2013 and received positive reviews from American book publishers Publishers Weekly and the New York Times. His second book, Double Cup Love: On the Trail of Family, Food, and Broken Hearts in China , was published in 2016.

Television (TV)

At the end of 2011, Huang presented Cheap Bite (German: cheap bite) on the American pay-TV Cooking Channel and appeared in several episodes of the TV series Unique Eats . After leaving Cooking Channel, he moved to Viceland, a television channel owned by multinational brand Vice Media. Under the theme that has now become known as Fresh Off the Boat , he moderated a recurring segment that was later expanded into a one-hour show and renamed Huang's World .

Fresh off the boat

In 2014, ABC ordered a television series based on his book , also called Fresh Off the Boat. The main roles were cast with Randall Park and Constance Wu , with child actor Hudson Yang playing the character of Eddie Huang. The show debuted with two preview episodes each on February 4, 2015 and premiered in prime time on February 10, 2015.

Huang was frank in his criticism of the show's development process and wrote a lengthy essay worried that his vision on the show was compromised. He went on to say that he wouldn't watch the show because he thinks that the plot after the pilot episode is not what he wrote in his memoir.

Movie

In August 2019, it was announced that Huang would be directing and writing the script for Boogie , a planned film. The main roles are to be cast with Taylor Takahashi, Pamelyn Chee, Jorge Lendeborg Jr. , Mike Moh , Dave East, Perry Yung, Alexa Mareka and Taylour Paige, with the production of the film by Focus Features , an American film production and distribution company .

controversy

In 2012, Huang was named a 2013 TED Fellow. However, his TED scholarship was later withdrawn because, according to the scholarship agreement, he had not attended every event at the conference, whereupon Huang compared TED to a "Scientology summer camp."

In May 2015, Huang was criticized for his comments on black women in an interview on the talk show Real Time with Bill Maher . He said, "I have a feeling that Asian men are becoming so emasculated in America that we are basically being treated like black women" . He later shared his Twitter account @MrEddieHuang with @BlackGirlDanger, where he defended his comments, which were called "Misogynoir" ( misogyny ).

Huang also drew criticism for his appropriation of African American culture. Huang had declared: "I have dealt with talking about people who have their own cultures that they have created with which they came over to inform people about the fundamental values of the culture" .

Yet the New York Times described Huang as "a walking mixtape of postmodern cultural appropriation". Some claim that Huang has "misogynist language and attitudes", unconventional English language and clothing, and police experience that suggest "assuming a hip-hop-influenced person."

Literature (selection)

  • Eddie Huang: Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir. Spiegel & Grau, New York 2013, ISBN 0-679-64489-X .
  • Eddie Huang: Double Cup Love: On the Trail of Family, Food, and Broken Hearts in China. Spiegel & Grau, New York 2016, ISBN 0-812-99546-5 .
  • Albert Prodigy Johnson, Kathy Iandoli, Eddie Huang: Commissary Kitchen: My Infamous Prison Cookbook. Infamous Books, 2016, ISBN 0-997-14623-0 .
  • Eddie Huang: Single Asiatic Male Seeks Ride or Die Chick. Amazon Original Stories, 2018.

Web links

Commons : Eddie Huang  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eddie Charles Huang - United States Public Records, In: Familysearch
  2. ^ Attorney Directory - Edwyn C. Huang, New York State Unified Court System
  3. ↑ IAMA Eddie Huang (cook, author, host of Fresh Off the Boat) AMA. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  4. ^ Marti, Rachel: 'Fresh Off The Boat' And Serving Up Asian Culture. In: Weekend Edition. NPR, January 29, 2019; accessed September 27, 2019 .
  5. ^ Huang, Eddie: Fresh off the boat: a memoir. In: ISBN 0812983351 . Spiegel & Grau, 2013, accessed on September 27, 2019 .
  6. ^ Marx, Rebecca: Chatting With Baohaus' Eddie Huang About Crackhaus, Cheeto-Fried Chicken, and “Chefs Slapping Each Other on the Ass in the Press”. April 8, 2010, accessed September 27, 2019 .
  7. ↑ a b c d Dwight Garner: Books Of the Times Pork Buns Steamed in Bluster. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  8. ^ Ruby Cutolo: Off The Boat, But On The Grid: PW Talks With Eddie Huang. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Amanda Devlin: Eddie Huang Wiki: Wife, Net Worth, Restaurant, Family, Bio. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  10. ^ Dana Schuster: Eddie Huang is the new Anthony Bourdain. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  11. ↑ James Rickman: Eddie Huang and Jeezy On Racism, America and Bossing Up. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  12. ↑ a b c d Joshua David Stein: Chef Who Refuses to Be Defined by His Wok. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Big Omaha, Events: Eddie Huang: “I'm about getting paper, but I need a 'why'”. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  14. ↑ AllHipHop Staff: Hoodman Clothing: Politics as Usual. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Kitchen posts, in a kitchen there are firmly subdivided posts (departments), which are usually occupied by a chef de partie (head of the post). In addition to him, however, several clerks (journeyman) can work on this post. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Talking with Eddie Huang The bad-boy restauranteur takes a Bao. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Chow 13 honorees - a sneak peek. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  18. ^ David Turner: Rap Snacks: Inside the Hip-Hop Restaurant Boom, Three hip dining spots in New York celebrate hip-hop culture through food. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  19. ^ Greg Morabito: Eddie Huang Opening East Village Location of BaoHaus. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Sam Sifton: Xiao Ye. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  21. ↑ BASED FOB We Oriental like rugs and 5 spice. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  22. ^ Eddie Huang: Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir. Random / Spiegel & Grau, ISBN 978-0-679-64488-0 , 272 pages, accessed on September 27, 2019 (English).
  23. ↑ Jon Caramanica: A Bloom in TV's Asian-American Desert. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  24. ^ Eddie Huang: Double Cup Love, On the Trail of Family, Food, and Broken Hearts in China. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  25. ↑ Fabian Gorsler: Eddie Huang's Chinese New Year adidas Ultra Boost Brings Back 1.0 Primeknit. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  26. ↑ McDonald, Soraya Nadia, (February 4, 2015) "Meet Eddie Huang, the memoirist who inspired Fresh Off the Boat , In: The Washington Post
  27. ↑ Wesley Yang: Eddie Huang Against the World. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  28. ^ Eddie Huang: Network TV ate my life: Eddie Huang on watching his Memoir become a Sitcom. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  29. ^ Lesley Goldberg: Eddie Huang Gives 'Fresh Off the Boat' a "B"; Pushes for Domestic Violence Arc. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  30. ↑ Alex Jung: Eddie Huang Is Still Angry His ABC Sitcom Is an ABC Sitcom. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  31. ↑ Amanda N'Duka: 'Fresh off the Boat' Author Eddie Huang To Make Directorial Debut With 'Boogie' Film At Focus Features. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  32. ↑ Dino-Ray Ramos: Eddie Huang's 'Boogie' Rounds Out Cast With Mike Moh, Dave East, Perry Yung, Taylour Paige and Alexa Mareka. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  33. ^ Joshua Topolsky: Inside TED: the smartest bubble in the world, A week-long journey into a temporary utopia. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  34. ^ Paul Joseph Watson: TED Conference Exposed As Scientology-Style Cult. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  35. ^ "Eddie Huang Says TED Conferences Have Turned Into A" Scientology Cult ", Political Blind Spot, June 24, 2013
  36. ^ Arthur Chu: Eddie Huang self-destructs: Why the "Fresh Off the Boat" author's descent into misogyny is so depressing, I've compared him to Richard Pryor. But after his latest Twitter meltdown, even I have to say "you're on your own". Retrieved September 28, 2019 .
  37. ^ Jenevieve Ting: We Need to Talk About Eddie Huang's Misogyny. Retrieved September 28, 2019 .
  38. ↑ Arthur Chu / AlterNet: Dear Eddie Huang: You Don't Get to Tell Black People, or Other Asian People, How They Should Feel or Who They Should Be. Retrieved September 28, 2019 .
  39. ↑ Jake Woolf: Eddie Huang Talks "New BaoHaus" and Race vs. Culture “But before there was a memoir or radio shows denouncing what Huang describes as the cult-like”. Retrieved September 28, 2019 .
  40. ↑ Brian Hioe: Radical perspectives on Taiwan and the Asia Pacific. Retrieved September 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Huang, Eddie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huang, Eddie Charles (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer, chef, restaurateur, food personality, producer, and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC