I stood onstage, blinded by lights, looking into blackness, which made every place the same. Though my general recall of the period is precise, my memory of specific shows is faint. My decade is the seventies, with several years extending on either side. After the shows, however, I experienced long hours of elation or misery depending on how the show went, because doing comedy alone onstage is the ego's last stand. Enjoyment while performing was rare-enjoyment would have been an indulgent loss of focus that comedy cannot afford. My most persistent memory of stand-up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the mouth speaking the line, the body delivering the gesture, while the mind looks back, observing, analyzing, judging, worrying, and then deciding when and what to say next. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four were spent in wild success. I did stand-up comedy for eighteen years.
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Sieng brought her food traditions to the U.S., shopping at Asian markets across Chicago and cooking for the wider Cambodian community as well as her own family - including Sang, who eventually found her way into professional kitchens and Chicago’s largest restaurant group. In “ A Daughter’s Culinary Ode to Her Mother Brings Traditional Khmer Food to Chicago,” Eater Chicago report Naomi Waxman dives into the family’s history, including their painful memories of the Cambodian genocide and settling in Chicago, home to more than 3,000 Cambodians and Cambodian Americans. The winning story profiles Khmai Fine Dining, a Cambodian restaurant on Chicago’s North Side, and the emotional journey that brought chef Mona Sang and her mother Sarom Sieng to start it. On Friday, Eater Chicago received the Peter Lisagor Award for Best Food or Restaurant Coverage from the Chicago Headline Club, the country’s largest chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. 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