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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!
Intuitive eating wasn't always a monetized concept - it's just how people ate. (If you don't have to clock in at work, you can eat whenever you want.)
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A vegan who ate raw meat as a baby now finds joy in parsley.
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Ornaments of the earliest Upper Paleolithic: New insights from the Levant
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"Mercury in retrograde" is finally explained. Julia is an astrologer with a sense of humor about it, and a lover of exquisite foods such as coconut shrimp. Tiki: still acceptable?
Music: The Song of Delilah by Tak Shindo
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Food Science, Technology and Nutrition
Encyclopedia of Food Sciences and Nutrition
West Africa's influence on global cuisine: it's there if you look for it.
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Expat vs immigrant, explaining Trump to foreigners, what are we doing on social media - no, really, what are we doing. Plus being a vegan in Iceland, and the joys and sorrows of broccoli!
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Lunch counters vs delis vs sandwich shops - is it all semantics? Sometimes. But not when we're talking about the 1960s. (And, no, tuna melts were not created by accident.)
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Canned tamales and the mysteries of Reese Witherspoon (ham parties?) with journalist and cookbook author Paula Forbes. And hey: just how WASPy are community cookbooks?
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Secretly good German coffee, filthy British pamphleteers of 17th century England, and the port of Mocha with Your Korean Dad, Nick Cho.
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The World of Caffeine: The Science and Culture of the World's Most Popular Drug
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"Native American food" is incredibly diverse. Loretta Barrett Oden, chef and member of Citizen Potawatomi Nation, has studied the foodways of North and South America - which has proven useful as she creates a pan-Oklahoma (39 Nations!) menu for the new First Americans Museum. Her thoughts on fry bread are ... nuanced.
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Journal of American Indian Education
Government of the Northwest Territories
What is "childhood"? When was it invented? The same time as candy canes?
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