When Covid-19 was labeled the “China Virus” anti-Asian sentiment rose. This brought me back to childhood; growing up in a small Ontario town, perhaps even more than my appearance or language, was the food I ate that set me apart. With food as a vehicle to discuss culture, identity, and otherness, this chapter explores the connection between food and identity; it enters the theme of anti-discriminatory education from the perspective that storying our food experiences not only deepens self-awareness but also, when those stories are shared and heard, is capable of deepening our awareness of each other. I intend to start this conversation with my own narrative as a visible ethnic minority to immigrant parents who owned a Chinese-Canadian restaurant. While what I ate at home clashed with what I was learning about at school, it was by having the restaurant as a site for learning that I came to see how food marks us. In approaching this, the food histories of my parents will be featured. I will outline two very different approaches to how food was used to define their lived experiences and will argue that, between both extremes, my understanding of the impact food has on identity sharpened enabling me to shape mine. Whether profane or profound, this chapter seeks to present an interdisciplinary discussion emphasizing that our food histories are untapped resources that carry significant pedagogical heft and thus, with implications for anti-discriminatory education, warrant further inquiry.