Lima Bean Manju and the History of Japanese-American Food

Join JASC Legacy Center Summer Intern Teddy Wu for this short instructional cooking video for Lima Bean Manju. Through the lens of this sweet treat, he explores the history of Japanese American cuisine, the fusion and friction between two cultures, and food's role in preserving and proliferating a community's way of life in the face of postwar resettlement and assimilation.
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This project was completed as part of the JASC Legacy Center's 2022 Summer Internship program, with funding from the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, under the Japanese American Confinement Sites grant program.
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