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By choosing I Accept , you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. Danny Chau Associate Editor. Share this profile Profile Rss. By Danny Chau July Danny Chau was ill-prepared for that first explosion of spice, but the second pepper was already going down, too late to stop.
Then he was writhing on the floor in pain, eyes swelling and nose running. Medium-height, bespectacled, and Vietnamese-American, Chau looks more like a food critic than a stereotypical sports writer. But Chau is not just a talented basketball writer; he writes about food with an evocative style.
Chau has never shied away from an intriguing story and relishes different ways of attacking them. That love of beauty is at the core of his passion for basketball.
They watched weekend triple-headers on the basic channels in the garage where their father would fix electronics. Duy used to collect basketball cards, Upper Deck and Topps, and put them into books. He remembers Danny flipping through the books and reading the stat lines for every player. Nor does he have a need to place every action and reaction in an overarching narrative.
But seeking out new experiences that no one else has written about? One of his most vivid memories of eating with his family is his father nibbling on a single Thai chili at every dinner. Chau graduated from sampling a little bit of mashed Thai chili in a saucer of soy sauce as a four-year-old to eating anything his parents did by age eight, and eventually to ghost peppers, one of the hottest peppers in the world. That need for heat comes from a deep love of food passed on from his parents.
At six, on a trip to Germany with his family, Chau realized that food was his passion. While there, he sampled all sorts of strange delicacies, including the meat from his favorite animal at the time, the kangaroo. And when given the chance to do it, he took it.
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