Press Appearances

NBC, CNN,   The Economist Magazine, Vox, Eater, TASTE, Inverse, South China Morning Post, Consumer Reports, Washington Post, Guardian, Saveur

Public Scholarship

• “A Brief History of Dumplings.” TED-Ed Lessons. (June 21, 2022).
• Anne Ewbank and Miranda Brown. “The Oldest Cookbooks From Libraries Around the World.” Atlas Obscura (June 8, 2022). https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/oldest-cookbooks
• “The Medieval Influencer Who Convinced the World to Drink Tea – and Not Eat it.” Atlas Obscura (March 2, 2022). https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/eating-tea
• “The Wondrous Wordplay of Lunar New Year Food.” Atlas Obscura (January 31, 2022). https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/lunar-new-year-food
• “The Hidden, Magnificent History of Chop Suey.” Atlas Obscura (November 30, 2021). https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/chop-suey-history
• “Making Mr. Song’s Cheeses.” In The Recipes Project: Food, Magic, Art, Science, and Medicine. https://recipes.hypotheses.org/13911
• “Cheese” and “Ritual” in Sidney Cheung ed., Berkshire Encyclopedia of Chinese Cuisines (Forthcoming: Oxford University Press, 2022).

Public Blog

www.chinesefoodhistory.org

Podcast Interviews, Profiles, Television, and Videos

Helen Zaltzman, “Mouthful of Fortune.” The Allusionist: A Podcast about Language. February 8, 2024.  https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/fortune

Ancient Recipes with Sohla, Season 3, Episode 3, “Sohla Cooks Jianbing: China’s Ancient Street Food,” November 5, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjV5SNS8yDo

Ancient Recipes with Sohla, Season 3, Episode 9, “1,300-Year-Old Chinese Cookies Are Deliciously Complex,” December 10, 2023.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRUT8A_NoZg

Lisa Haywood, “Episode 19: The Chinese Curdverse,” Into the Curdverse (August 2023)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2iyJu9MvLbAlGDhP8IoIrF?si=25a70baabc684e1b 

Jenny Lau, “Miranda Brown Wants You to Eat Chinese Food Made By Mexicans.” Celestial Peach, May 8, 2023. https://www.celestialpeach.com/asian-slaw-alliance-1/miranda-brown

 Jeremy Cherfas, “Making Mr. Song’s Cheese,” Eat This Podcast, April 10, 2023. https://www.eatthispodcast.com/chinese-cheese/

Vox Creative, “Why sharing secret recipes is about more than making food,” Mar 9, 2021.

With Yi Ming Zhou. “Beyond Asian Memes: How Bubble Tea Became An Asian American Icon,” February 8, 2021.

Gerald Zhang-Schmidt, “Heatstories, Miranda Brown and the Riddle of Spice – and Dairy – in China.” February 15, 2020.

Public Talks 

• “Pieces of China: Miranda Brown on the Chinese Dumpling.” China Institute. January 7, 2021.
• “Chinese Food Around the World.” With Fuschia Dunlop, Yong Chen, and Emily Baum. Virtual Panel Hosted by the University of California, Irvine. October 19, 2020.
•  “Rumor, Chinese Diets, and Covid-19: Questions and Answers about Chinese Food and Eating Habits.” With Michelle King, Wendy Jia-Chen Fu, and Donald Santacaterina. Virtual Panel Hosted by University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, May 14, 2020.
• “Bubble Tea: A Taste of a Taiwanese Treat.” Public Lecture at the Ann Arbor Public Library for Taste of Taiwan Series, September 3, 2019.
• “Introduction” to In Search of General Tso: A Documentary Film about Chinese Food in America China, Ongoing Perspectives ~ CHOP, U-M Film Series co-sponsored by the Asia Library and the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. February 7, 2019.
• “TCM.” Presentation for the UM College of Pharmacy (organized by the Multicultural Pharmacy Student Organization). January 29, 2019.
• “Of Cheese and Curds.” Public Lecture at the Ann Arbor Public Library for the Ann Arbor Culinary Historians (Malletts Creek Branch Branch), January 20, 2019.