The Food That Made Us immigrant food truck tour comes to Seattle

SEATTLE — The I Stand With Immigrants initiative celebrates its ninth once-a-year tour with a prevent in Seattle this weekend. 

As aspect of The Food That Built Us tour, the initiative has teamed up with celebrated cooks – which includes Joanne Chang, Tom Colicchio, Byron Gomez, Christine Ha and Hawa Hassan – to craft primary recipes for some of their beloved dishes, motivated by their personal immigrant heritage. 

The 5-city U.S. tour also features community immigrant-owned foods vehicles like Seattle’s Thai-U-Up, which serves spring rolls from a spouse-and-spouse-operate truck. 

Daniel Leon-Lewis, the initiative’s innovative director, mentioned his staff is thrilled to be back again on the street following a couple of decades of hiatus throughout the pandemic. 

“We are honoring the creative imagination, cultural expression and local community-making ability of foods via The Foodstuff That Manufactured Us Tour,” Leon-Lewis mentioned. 

Zaira Garcia mentioned being on the street all over again and meeting immigrants and their family members is a strong point of view. 

“We’re coming up on a decade of web hosting this, and we’re seriously out below celebrating the many contributions that immigrants make to our country,” Garcia claimed. “Whether that is by means of culture, through foodstuff, by new music – you can truly glimpse in so several instructions to see the value of immigrants and immigration to the United States.”

The Food That Produced Us Tour will be in Seattle’s Chinatown-Worldwide District on Saturday and will serve up free food stuff, “I stand with immigrants” shirts and tote bags at Hing Hay Park, 423 Maynard Ave. S. The party will run from midday to 6 p.m.