Danielle Chang
Danielle Chang (b. December 20, 1971) is the owner and founder of LUCKYRICE agency responsible for the eponymous LUCKYRICE Asian Food Feasts..[1]
She is the author of Lucky Rice: Stories and Recipes from Night Markets, Feasts and Family Tables (c) 2016, from Clarkson Potter a devision of Penguin Random House.[2] She was previously the CEO of fashion brand Vivienne Tam and a managing director of the French creative agency Assouline. She was also the founding publisher of the magazine Simplycity, and worked briefly at the Dietch Gallery as well as at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Other businesses she has founded include Xiao Bao Chinese, a Chinese language and cultural learning school for young children in partnership with the Museum of the Chinese in America (MOCA), and ArtWalk Art Tours of SoHo.
She began her career at The New York Times. After grad school, she was a Professor of Contemporary Art History at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). In the mid 1990s, she curated exhibitions by emerging artists and was a Director of the Andrea Rosen and Jeffrey Deitch galleries.
She has two daughters and lives in New York City.
Early Life[edit]
Danielle was born in Taipei before her family moved to Houston, TX where they lived briefly before settling in Palo Alto, CA. She moved to New York City in 1990 where she has lived since.
She attended Columbia University as an undergraduate at Barnard College, and then earned her Masters Degree in Cultural Studies/Critical Theory and Analysis, matriculating in 1997.
According to The New York Times[3] :
Although her résumé hopscotches the globe and industries, she has no professional culinary experience. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, the oldest of three children, she moved around a lot with her family, first to Guam when she was 5, then to Los Angeles, Houston and eventually Los Altos Hills near Palo Alto, Calif. Her mother, Ching Ping Chang, an interior designer, still lives in the Bay Area. Her father, Jason C. S. Chang, lives in Shanghai, and as the chairman and chief executive of Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, ranks No. 868 on the Forbes billionaires list this year. She said her family is “very private.”
LUCKYRICE (Food Festival)[edit]
LUCKYRICE is Chang's national Asian food festival. Participating chefs and restaurants have included: David Chang, Anita Lo, Andy Ricker, Danny Bowien, Pichet Ong, Daniel Boulud, and Masaharu Morimoto.
Lucky Chow (TV Show)[edit]
LUCKY CHOW is a nationally syndicated television show produced by LUCKYRICE and CAAM (Center for Asian American Media); created and hosted by Danielle Chang. The show is distributed through PBS in the U.S. and National Geographic, internationally. The show follows Danielle as she travels through America to discover intersections of Asian culinary tradition and local American culture, whether it be through literal fusions of food traditions, authentic manifestations of traditional Asian cuisine, or some new form of appreciating food culture that blends the consumer cultures of Asian and American experiences.
References[edit]
- ↑ Chang, Bee-shyuan (April 16, 2013). "Rallying Around a Bowl of Rice". The New York Times.
- ↑ "Perfect Rice Lucky Rice Cookbook".
- ↑ "Danielle Chang of Lucky Rice". The New York Times.
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