Give Light - Night 1
Night 1 - Kung Pao Pastrami Latkes & the Cat in the Hat
THIS HANUKKAH, GIVE LIGHT.
This year, enjoy eight gifts of imagination from Reboot’s culture creators. We asked our community to share the music, art and ideas giving them light right now. Starting tonight, we will share those gifts with you, in hopes you will find your own light and pass it along.
From December 10-18, we will offer quick bits of content to read, watch and hear - along with recommendations of places that need your light.
A NEW KIND OF MIRACLE, KUNG PAO PASTRAMI LATKES
Karen Leibowitz & Anthony Myint WITH AVIVA MYINT
As parents, Mission Chinese founders Karen Leibowitz and Anthony Myint have worked to blend their different cultural backgrounds into their own new family traditions. There are many twists on latkes for Hanukkah, but few have the culinary genius of their Kung Pao Pastrami Latkes. The James Beard Award-winners, founders of the nonprofit Zero Foodprint and owners of Mission Chinese Food in San Francisco, chop up the one-of-a-kind Hanukkah recipe with their daughter Aviva and introduce their Give a Ton sustainability campaign.
Karen Leibowitz is an advocate, writer, and restaurateur seeking improvements to our food system. She is executive director of Zero Foodprint, a nonprofit which was named Humanitarian of the Year by the James Beard Foundation for its work on food-related climate solutions. She has also co-written two cookbooks: Mission Street Food (with Anthony Myint) and Atelier Crenn (with Dominique Crenn) and her journalism has appeared in The New York Times, Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, and other publications. As co-founder of several award-winning and pioneering restaurants (Mission Chinese Food, The Perennial, and Commonwealth), Karen was nominated for a James Beard Award for Outstanding Restaurateur in 2019. InStyle included Karen in their inaugural list of “50 Badass Women.”
Anthony Myint is a chef and activist mobilizing the restaurant industry toward healthy soil as a solution to the climate crisis. He is the co-founder of the restaurant Mission Chinese Food and the nonprofit Zero Foodprint, which was named 2020 Humanitarian of the Year by the James Beard Foundation. He is also the winner of the 2019 Basque Culinary World Prize for Zero Foodprint and its Restore California program, a collaboration with the state government engaging consumers in crowd-funding grants for farmers to convert their land to regenerative agriculture and help reverse global warming.
Aviva Myint is a third-grader who is passionate about food, stories, puzzles, craft projects, math, and axolotls. She is looking forward to Hanukkah and someday returning to in-person school.
And if you want to give some light…
Zero Foodprint
Zero Foodprint is a nonprofit organization dedicated to mobilizing the food world around agricultural climate solutions. Named "Humanitarian of the Year" by the James Beard Foundation, Zero Foodprint partners with restaurants and other food businesses to crowd-fund grants for carbon farming projects. Learn more about their Give a Ton campaign: www.zerofoodprint.org/featuredproject
A new light on the cat in the hat
Call Me Ishmael featuring a.j. jacobs
Logan Smalley and Steph Kent, founders of CallMeIshmael.com — a creative, participatory literary initiative that was an honoree for the National Book Foundation’s “Innovations In Reading Prize” in 2015, will share a reflection by writer A.J. Jacobs on children’s classic, The Cat In the Hat.
Logan Smalley and Stephanie Kent are the co-creators of Call Me Ishmael. Stephanie is a writer, media producer, and amateur boxer. Logan is an award-winning filmmaker and the founding director of TED-Ed. They live in New York City with their rescue dog, Matilda. They recently released an interactive book about books, The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book.
And if you want to give some light…
Please support your local indie bookstore this holiday season! Find one at bookshop.org.