Cookie Artist Teaches Edible Lessons In Asian-American History
Jasmine Cho makes cookie portraits of people like Takao Ozawa, who was denied U.S. citizenship on the basis of race in a landmark case. Her goal: to make social justice lessons more palatable.
Jasmine Cho knows the power of a good cookie. "Cookies," she says, "can make anything more palatable." Including conversations about race and social justice in America.
A baker based in Pittsburgh, Cho creates intricate, hand-drawn cookie portraits of Asian-American figures as a way to increase representation and raise awareness of Asian-American history and identity.
Figures represented in sugar and icing include people like Takao Ozawa, a Japanese-American whose petition for U.S. citizenship was denied on the basis of race in a, a pioneering historian of the Japanese-American experience who coined the term "Asian-American."
