2. Healing

The idea of functional food; stories of people looking to heal the body, spirit and global community one meal at a time.

3. Innovators

Three women chefs in the Pacific Northwest; the founder of Pared; Robert Wang, inventor of the Instant Pot; chef Lucas Sin, founder of Junzi Kitchen.

4. Hybrids

Park's Filipino-American barbecue; JJ Johnson's Afro-Asian rice bowls; Llama San's unique Peruvian-Japanese flavors known as Nikkei cuisine; chef James Syhabout.

5. Curators

The editors of Banana, a magazine that gives voice to contemporary AZN culture; an urban rice paddy in New York; the Chinese cooking blog Omnivore's Cookbook; the future of Asian cocktail culture.

6. Comfort

The importance of comfort food; making Chinese food at home with the help of cooking blogs such as The Woks of Life; young chefs reimagine Taiwanese and Indonesian classics.