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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!
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Mochi doesn't just mean ice cream, y'all.
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Music: Turning Up by Arashi
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The History and Culture of Japanese Food
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A star of Crazy Rich Asians, who is from Singapore, talks about the truly international food scene she grew up with - why is it like that?
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Music: Fried Rice Paradise from "Wonder Boy"
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The Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore, 1941-45: A Social and Economic History
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Brazil, Hawai'i, disastrous marketing, and pineapple upside-down cake.
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Music: Pineapple Princess by Annette Funicello
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Beer, religion, and the British aristocrats who were actually Nazis.
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Music: Ain't Misbehavin' by Fats Waller
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People have always had very strong, and sometimes very weird, opinions about garlic.
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Music: You're A Grand Old Flag, Billy Murray
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World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
What we want when we want to go to dinner.
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Music: Can't Feel My Face by The Weeknd
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Breadlines: invented in the US.
Famine: always manmade, always political.
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Music: Brother Can You Spare a Dime by Al Jolson
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The Bread Line: An American Icon of Hard Times
Just what was James Lewis Kraft getting up to in his kitchen?
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Music: If I Had a Million Dollars by Barenaked Ladies
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By the Labour of Their Hands: The Story of Ontario Cheddar Cheese
One of the planet's favorite treats ... with a history that got quite weird in the '80s.
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Music: Twiggy Twiggy by Pizzicato Five
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