Jenny Lau
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Jenny Lau

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Jenny Lau is a British Chinese writer, community organiser and food activist. She founded Celestial Peach in 2018 as a multidisciplinary platform to tell and connect stories about the Chinese diaspora. She has sice built a grassroots East and South East Asian community through her food events and activism, and has been featured in media such as Gastro Obscura, It's Nice That and Monocle. She has twice been listed as one of Code Hospitality's 100 Most Influential Women in Hospitality and was nominated for People's Choice Person of the Year at the Be Inclusive Hospitality Spotlight Awards in 2022. Her food and culure articles have been published in Vittles and South China Morning Post, and her chapter on 'The Community Centre' was published in LONDON FEEDS ITSELF, the food writing anthology - currently on its second edition - that Jonathan Nunn edited, alongside voices such as Claudia Roden, Ruby Tandoh and Jeremy Corbyn. She has done talks for the British Library Food Season, lectured at SOAS Food Studies department, panels and events with BFI, MilkTeaFilms and Southbank Centre, as well as a writing collaboration with the Horniman Museum. She lives in London.
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