What grandma's sponge cake taught me about being Asian in America.
She was going through Costco-sized bottles of olive oil, flats of eggs. She suddenly had an opinion on cake flour and extra-virgin olive oil . I’d never seen her bake this much in her life, let alone use the oven for anything other than storage.
She was working at a jean factory in the Lower East Side, getting paid 10 cents per pair, and one day sewed a needle right through her thumb. And so her mom, my Popo, got her a dog to cheer her up.I think it was when I turned 15 when my parents and I realized how different we were. We fought a lot. It felt like, overnight, we had ceased to share a common language or understanding of our world. And in hindsight, it’s true: We have had very different experiences as Asians in America.
I haven’t seen my grandma don her apron in a while. There's something simultaneously relieving and heartbreaking about it: our matriarch finally sitting while she eats, letting one of us cut the sponge cake for dessert, taking a sliver for herself.
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