UCLA receiver Thomas Duarte proud of biracial heritagePosted in Articles, Campus Life, Media Archive, United States on 2013-12-02 18:34Z by Steven |
UCLA receiver Thomas Duarte proud of biracial heritage
Los Angeles Daily News
2013-11-25
Jack Wang, Staff Reporter
The smell hits him three or four blocks away.
Thomas Duarte is coming back from a run around his Orange County neighborhood, and the day is hot enough that the windows of his house have been cracked open.
What that smell actually was, though, depended on the day.
“We always had tamales around,” said the UCLA receiver. “That was probably my favorite. Coming around wintertime, that’s pretty much what I think about when it comes to food around the house.”
Ordinary by itself, but consider some of the other Duarte household favorites: teriyaki chicken, fried rice, sushi. The platter tends to be diverse when you’re the son of a Mexican-American father and a Japanese-American mother.
When Duarte was about five years old, his father Tim brought home a whole, freshly caught albacore that a friend had just fished from the pier. As he cut thin slices on the kitchen counter, Thomas approached eagerly. He ate a piece and loved it.
“If that’s not in the blood, I don’t know what is,” Tim said…
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