The Girl Who Ate China | Clarissa Wei | TEDxTempleCityHS

Описание: Meet the girl who traveled across the Pacific ocean to “eat China” in hopes to taste the flavors unique in each region of the country. However, during her journey she faces a harsher reality: the destruction of Asian food chains due to industrialization and climate change. In her exciting yet sombering talk, Clarissa Wei reminds us of the detrimental effect of climate change on agriculture.

Clarissa Wei is an American freelance journalist of Taiwanese descent. She has been to 17 out of 34 provincial-level administrative units in China including Taiwan and Tibet. Wei has written stories for VICE, Eater, NPR, Mashable, LA Weekly, Town and Country, Los Angeles Times, Village Voice, BBC, CNN, CBS, First We Feast, Food Network, Time Out Los Angeles, Serious Eats, Bold Italic, KCET, Brit + Co, USA Today, Discover Los Angeles. She contributed to Fodor's Los Angeles and wrote the food and beverage sections for Louis Vuitton's Taipei guidebook. You may have seen her on Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, CBS Los Angeles, or on CCTV talking Chinese food.
Wei used to lead food tours in Los Angeles. She was a former food columnist for KCET. Once she gave a speech to NASA about Chinese food. When she was in college, she was a regular food blogger for the Village Voice and a USA Today Collegiate Correspondent. She is currently writing a column for East West Bank on all the regional Chi

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