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behind the foods we love.
Hosted by independent journalist and food anthropologist, Katherine Spiers (LA Times, LA Weekly, KCET, Eater, How to Eat L.A.). Guests include Anthony Bourdain, Georgia Hardstark, Jacques Pepin, Llewellyn Clarke, Sarah Kuhn, Claudette Zepeda, Jon Garbus, Danny Trejo, Flula Borg and many other compelling people who eat food!
Do we really think Cary Grant invented a salad?
Kung Food: Chinese American Recipes from a Third-Culture Kitchen
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Chicken & Waffles with Carl Tart
American Chinese Food with Edgar Momplaisir
Ruth Wakefield & the Chocolate Chip Cookie
Personal Foodways with Chris Scott
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Music: José Feliciano - California Dreamin'
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Myths and truths about one of the South's more food-focused cities.
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Music: Symphony No. 3 in C Minor - III. Juba. Allegro - Florence Price
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National Park Service, House Beautiful
"To Make the Whole World Homelike:" Gender, Space, and America's Tea Room Movement
You can make restaurant-quality pho at home. You just gotta believe in yourself, and also fuel up on dozens of sesame balls.
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Music: Wassup Pham - Sabzi
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The resident food stylist at America's Test Kitchen on the history of boxes of chocolate ... and where she might find Lupin.
Food Gifts: 150 Irresistible Recipes for Crafting Personalized Presents
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Music: Place Vendôme - Mathieu Lamboley
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A dish I had absolutely never heard of before.
Related Episode: Diversity in Native American Food with Loretta Barrett Oden
Corn Dance: Inspired First American Cuisine
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Music: Une Noix - Charles Trenet
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Do I drink it? Yes. Am I a sovereign citizen? Depends on my mood.
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Music: Freedom! '90 - George Michael
Sources (I over-researched this one. I may or may not have used info from every source here, but I figured I'd include them all to be safe.):
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/17/garden/salmonella-outbreak-is-traced.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5443421/
https://www.fda.gov/media/140394/download
https://www.nourishwithkristin.com/blog/raw-milk-history
https://foodpolicyforthought.com/2014/05/06/the-history-of-raw-milk-and-pasteurization/
https://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/as/as-612-w.pdf
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/10/25/onions-salmonella-recall/
https://www.tiktok.com/@paulsaladinomd2/video/7151475682936245550?q=raw%20milk&t=1697747104293
https://www.tiktok.com/@healthanie/video/7271751825215343914?q=raw%20milk&t=1697747104293
https://www.tiktok.com/@sammyllacey/video/7239126493102738734?q=raw%20milk&t=1697747104293 lies
https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1026&context=healthmatrix
https://www.latimes.com/business/la-xpm-2011-aug-04-la-fi-milk-raid-20110804-story.html
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/04/30/raw-deal
https://www.cheeseprofessor.com/blog/buffalo-milk-and-cheese-in-america
https://www.mariasbulacansweets.com/product-page/carabao-s-milk-limited-availability
https://www.givesendgo.com/G3NZH
https://getrawmilk.com/content/amos-miller-food-club-charges
https://www.thefp.com/p/raw-milk/comments#comment-11807602
https://www.fda.gov/media/140394/download
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/16/dining/food-marketing-ozempic-era.html
Soul rolls and other culinary smash ups; should legacy publications stay in their lane; activists who are not empaths.
Related episode: Meat raffles and Snickers salads with Ben Mandelker
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Music: Can You Help Me - Jesse Johnson
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Kitsch versus camp and the politics of quiche.
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Coconut shrimp with Julia Loken
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Music: Quiche Lorraine - The B-52s
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Crows. You gotta hand it to them.
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Music: I Love My Dog - Cat Stevens
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A dream job and many dream fried chicken recipes.
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Music: Salt - Ava Max
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"Identification of the Yellow Skin Gene Reveals a Hybrid Origin of the Domestic Chicken"
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