Essayist and writer Andrew Lam has been mapping these two worlds for many years. His first book Perfume Dreams won him a Pen American award and his essays on NPR won him a national audience. His latest book East Eats West -- Writing in Two Hemispheres, explores how the food cultures of these two worlds merge around him and within him.
Lam left Vietnam with his family during the fall of Saigon in April 1975. He attended the University of California, Berkeley where he majored in biochemistry. He soon abandoned plans for medical school and entered a creative writing program at San Francisco State University. While still in school he began writing for Pacific News Service and in 1993 won the Outstanding Young Journalist Award from the Society of Professional Journalists.[2]
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