Multicultural Food Festival Serves Up Chadwick Diversity


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"A lot of memories and experiences are linked to food, so I thought food could be utilized as a tool to make people interested in something and care about itand to see some of the good parts and why these things are valuably, and why we should be bringing them up and protecting them," says Caleb Kim, a senior at Los Angeles' Chadwick School and the man behind the school's first-ever multicultural food festival.

The April 14 event at the K-12 school featured student-led booths representing American Southern, Black, Bosnian, Chinese, Indian, Italian, Japanese, Jewish, Korean, Latin American Middle Eastern, Spanish, and Southeast Asian cultures, per a press release.

"I realized that if we're shining a light on an issue, and people don't find it relevant or valuable, they won't care," Kim tells CBS Los Angeles.

"I began thinking of a way to bring a positive perspective on a lot of our cultural sides and perspectives," he adds.

"For me, that's food."

The multicultural food festival is the brainchild of the school's Student Diversity Council, which Kim co-founded.

The festival raises money for Chadwick's diversity initiatives, including after-school programs for at- Read the Entire Article


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