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Meant To Be Eaten

Meant To Be Eaten

108 episodes

Meant to be Eaten looks at cross-cultural exchange in food and contemporary media. What determines “authenticity”? What, if anything, gets lost in translation when cooking foods from another’s culture? First-generation Chinese host, Coral Lee, looks at how American culture figures forth in less-than mainstream ways, in less-than expected places.

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Gastromica's New Feed On HRN

Published: June 16, 2022, 12:50 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 23 seconds

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What to Read Now: Melissa Fuster's Caribenos at the Table

Published: Nov. 28, 2021, 5:26 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 14 seconds

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Stephen Velasquez on Art and Activism

Published: Nov. 21, 2021, 9:29 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 17 seconds

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Sucharita Kanjilal on Tomatoes and Taste-making in Indian Recipes

Published: Nov. 14, 2021, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 29 seconds

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Aya H. Kimura on Pickling: Histories of Tsukemono

Published: Nov. 7, 2021, 9:19 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 27 seconds

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Benjamin Schrager on Risk, Regulation, and Raw Chicken in Japan

Published: Oct. 31, 2021, 10:37 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 45 seconds

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Raul Matta and Padma Panchapakesan on Dining Out: Changing Values of Good Taste

Published: Oct. 24, 2021, 4:55 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 28 seconds

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Gastronomica: The Next Issue

Published: June 20, 2021, 7 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 22 seconds

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Chicken Politics

Published: June 13, 2021, 7 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 37 seconds

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When the Rainbows Bring the Crawfish

Published: June 8, 2021, 2:12 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 22 seconds

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Japanese Immigrants Pantry

Published: May 23, 2021, 8:28 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 37 seconds

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What to Read Now

Published: May 17, 2021, 1:17 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 10 seconds

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Race in American Food Television

Published: May 10, 2021, 4:03 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 23 seconds

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Well Rooted: A Gastronomica Interview with Chef Rob Connoley

Published: May 3, 2021, 12:56 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 38 seconds

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Ketchup as a Vegetable: Condiments and the Politics of School Lunch in Reagans America

Published: Feb. 21, 2021, 8:48 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 27 seconds

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Lunch Interrupted! COVID-19 and Japans School Meals

Published: Feb. 14, 2021, 9:18 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 58 seconds

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Rumor, Chinese Diets, and COVID-19: Questions and Answers about Chinese Food and Eating Habits

Published: Feb. 7, 2021, 8:51 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 3 seconds

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Paqueteros and Paqueteras: Humanizing a Dehumanized Food System

Published: Jan. 31, 2021, 9:01 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 4 seconds

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Feeding the City, Pandemic and Beyond

Published: Jan. 24, 2021, 9:11 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 16 seconds

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Around the World in 50 Restaurants: The Curious Irony of Hyperlocal Food

Published: Jan. 17, 2021, 9 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 17 seconds

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Decoding Miracle Food Cures for COVID-19

Published: Nov. 29, 2020, 8:33 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 17 seconds

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Salmon on the Table

Published: Nov. 22, 2020, 3:11 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 33 seconds

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The Food and COVID-19 NYC Archive: Mapping the Pandemics Effect on Food in Real Time

Published: Nov. 15, 2020, 11:43 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 33 seconds

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Taste as Governor: Soy Sauce in Late Choson and Colonial Korea

Published: Nov. 8, 2020, 9:15 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 48 seconds

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Mexicans in Chicago

Published: Nov. 1, 2020, 8:02 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 29 seconds

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Lockdown Destitution: Delhi, March 2020

Published: Oct. 25, 2020, 6:55 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 43 seconds

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A Grocery Store Employee's Experience on the COVID Front Lines

Published: Sept. 20, 2020, 7:55 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 3 seconds

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The Stockpile and the Letdown

Published: Sept. 13, 2020, 7:55 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 32 seconds

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I Miss the Grocery Store the Most

Published: Aug. 23, 2020, 7:57 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 21 seconds

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COVID-19 and Challenges of Urban Informality in Delhi, India

Published: Aug. 16, 2020, 4:47 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 52 seconds

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South Africa under lockdown

Published: Aug. 9, 2020, 4:40 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 5 seconds

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The Sickness Unto Hospitality

Published: Aug. 2, 2020, 7:51 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 10 seconds

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Alicia Kennedy on the value of white acceptance

Published: June 28, 2020, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 16 seconds

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Heifer International on how agriculture can provide a path out of poverty

Published: June 14, 2020, 6:41 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 16 seconds

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Andrew Genung on the importance of word choice and what we can learn from H.K.'s reopenings

Published: June 7, 2020, 6:58 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 13 seconds

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Esther Kim on Afro-Asian solidarity, Eddie Huang, and how a fistful of rice fuelled a democracy

Published: May 31, 2020, 8:07 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 46 seconds

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Lori Flores on farmworkers' rights amid and beyond the pandemic

Published: May 17, 2020, 8:03 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 2 seconds

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Julia Bainbridge and Malcolm Harris on the antidote to loneliness

Published: May 10, 2020, 8:15 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 23 seconds

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Chhaya Kolavalli on why the local food movement is so white

Published: April 5, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes

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Eric Rath on what ancient sushi forms can teach us about sustainability

Published: March 29, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 45 seconds

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Azri Amram on the Jewish-Palestinian conflict, and food tourism as a bridge

Published: March 22, 2020, 6:49 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 26 seconds

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Rose Wellman on the popularity of Jell-O in Tehran, and its challenge to Islamic piety and Iranian citizenship

Published: March 15, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 30 seconds

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Krishnendu Ray on street foodmobility and diversity out in the open

Published: March 8, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 49 seconds

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Laurie Bertram on Iceland's most reluctantly defended tradition

Published: March 1, 2020, 8 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 41 seconds

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Rebecca de Souza on why food pantries fail to solve hunger

Published: Feb. 23, 2020, 9:04 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 19 seconds

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Jeff Abella on fostering a sustainble agroeconomy in Cameroon

Published: Feb. 9, 2020, 8:41 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 44 seconds

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Carol Pak on building America's first craft makgeolli company

Published: Feb. 2, 2020, 8:39 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 20 seconds

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Amy Trubek on how restaurant culture needs to change

Published: Jan. 19, 2020, 8 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 15 seconds

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Daniel Bender on saving food... from what?

Published: Dec. 1, 2019, 8:52 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 18 seconds

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Amanda Hesser on food media's effects on "taste"

Published: Nov. 17, 2019, 8:57 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 34 seconds

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Sybil Kapoor on innate and learned "taste"

Published: Nov. 10, 2019, 8:43 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 47 seconds

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Mukta Das on "heritage-making" in a divided country

Published: Nov. 3, 2019, 8:44 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 53 seconds

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Kristin and Mark Kimball on the 1% feeding the 99%

Published: Oct. 27, 2019, 7 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 16 seconds

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Korsha Wilson on what inclusivity in the food world would look like

Published: Oct. 6, 2019, 7:48 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 10 seconds

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Robin Sloan on sourdough and tech bros

Published: Sept. 29, 2019, 7:52 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 41 seconds

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Sonia Chopra on ethnicity as flexible

Published: Sept. 22, 2019, 7:54 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes

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Jen Monroe on why we should care about bees

Published: Sept. 15, 2019, 4:56 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 30 seconds

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Elizabeth Minchilli on the intersection of architecture, dining, and taste

Published: Aug. 11, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 20 seconds

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Francesca Vaghi and Brandi Miller on defining "good" food

Published: Aug. 4, 2019, 7 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 6 seconds

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John T. Edge on the cultural narrative of food, gatekeepers, and unreliable narrators

Published: July 28, 2019, 6:54 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 50 seconds

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Leslie Bow on how Asians navigated the racially segregated south

Published: July 14, 2019, 7:06 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 37 seconds

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Dave Haeselin on the inauthenticity of food, our selves, and communication in the digital age

Published: July 7, 2019, 7 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 48 seconds

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Katie Rue on opening a Korean-American cocktail bar

Published: June 23, 2019, 7:05 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 6 seconds

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Jack Tchen on the history of Chinatown and yellow peril

Published: June 16, 2019, 6:48 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 3 seconds

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Maggie Gray, Sarah Horton, Vanesa Ribas, and Angela Stuesse on the contested and changing roles of immigrant farmworkers in the U.S.

Published: June 9, 2019, 7 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 56 seconds

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Merry White on Japan's long-standing coffee culture

Published: June 2, 2019, 7 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 3 seconds

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Chris Cheung on Lucky Cricket, Lucky Lee's, and other unlucky openings

Published: May 19, 2019, 7 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 34 seconds

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Gaik Cheng Khoo on eating together

Published: May 12, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 23 seconds

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Takeyuki Tsuda on Japanese-American immigrants and defending "Americanness"

Published: May 5, 2019, 7 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 13 seconds

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Sarita See on the lasting effects of colonialism, and how to critique diasporic art

Published: April 14, 2019, 7 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 59 seconds

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Mark Padoongpatt on the rise of Asian-dominated suburban neighborhoods

Published: April 7, 2019, 7 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 56 seconds

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Michael Kideckel on "folk" and Matthew Mickler's "White Trash" cookbook

Published: March 31, 2019, 7 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 24 seconds

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Andrew Tam on Singaporean hawker centersfrom nuisance to "culinary heritage"

Published: March 24, 2019, 5:50 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 21 seconds

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Kate Young on food and fiction

Published: March 17, 2019, 7:31 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 30 seconds

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Allen Weiss on the French gastronomic meal as "immaterial heritage"

Published: March 3, 2019, 8 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 41 seconds

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Alan Warde on the sociology of dining out

Published: Feb. 24, 2019, 8 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 36 seconds

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Matt Garcia, E. Melanie Dupuis, and Don Mitchell on nourishment, territory, and belonging as afforded by food

Published: Feb. 17, 2019, 8 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 15 seconds

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Paul Freedman on the ten restaurants that changed American dining

Published: Feb. 10, 2019, 8 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 24 seconds

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Michelle Bloom on food and cinema's role in preserving cultural memory

Published: Feb. 3, 2019, 8 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 51 seconds

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Megan Elias on cookbooks and TV's influence on gender expectations

Published: Jan. 27, 2019, 8 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 50 seconds

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Jennifer LeMesurier on MSG, xenophobia, and mainstream rhetoric

Published: Jan. 20, 2019, 11:24 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 19 seconds

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Meredith Leigh on the ethics of meat consumption

Published: Nov. 25, 2018, 8 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 44 seconds

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Kimberly Chou and Kimberly Jenkins on food's role in fashioning the self

Published: Nov. 18, 2018, 5:41 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 5 seconds

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Chris Ying and Melinna Shannon-DiPietro on "You and I Eat the Same"

Published: Nov. 11, 2018, 8:04 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 21 seconds

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Suzy Spence and Irina Mihalache on feminism and food in museum spaces

Published: Oct. 28, 2018, 3:42 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 36 seconds

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Rachel Laudan on culinary Luddism and the inaccessbility of slow food

Published: Oct. 21, 2018, 8:07 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 12 seconds

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Natalie Doonan on the fiction of "wild" cuisine

Published: Oct. 14, 2018, 7:28 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 38 seconds

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Sarah Fouts on loncheras in NOLA

Published: Oct. 7, 2018, 7:22 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 16 seconds

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Mallory O'Donnell on foraging and food access

Published: Sept. 30, 2018, 8:05 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 33 seconds

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Suzanne Cope on immigrant labor and "American" cuisine

Published: Sept. 16, 2018, 8:46 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 17 seconds

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Nancy Hachisu on appropriation, cultural hierarchies, and authenticity

Published: Sept. 9, 2018, 8:04 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes

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Michael Kideckel on the inaccessibility of "good" food, and power of branding

Published: Aug. 12, 2018, 5:46 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 46 seconds

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Nancy Yuen on the lack of Asian-Americans in media and Pixar's Bao

Published: Aug. 5, 2018, 7:32 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 57 seconds

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Aimee Brodeur on what our groceries reveal about us

Published: July 22, 2018, 5:10 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 27 seconds

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Rich Shih on koji and community

Published: July 15, 2018, 7:10 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 52 seconds

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Jenny Dorsey on the model minority myth

Published: July 8, 2018, 7:13 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 28 seconds

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Rupa Bhattacharya on how to consume food media

Published: July 1, 2018, 7:36 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 26 seconds

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Rosemary Liss on food as an artistic medium

Published: June 17, 2018, 7:24 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 30 seconds

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Lolis Eric Elie on resistance, re-appropriation, and reaffirmation

Published: June 3, 2018, 8:17 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 56 seconds

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Penny de los Santos on what food photography has taught her about humanity

Published: May 15, 2018, 9:13 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 21 seconds

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Thomas Parker on the history of "terroir"

Published: May 8, 2018, 11:51 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 7 seconds

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Josey Baker on bread's real cost, changing aesthetics, and capacity to serve a community

Published: April 17, 2018, 9:33 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 1 second

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Maria Zizka on ghostwriting numerous California cuisine cookbooks

Published: April 3, 2018, 9:41 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 20 seconds

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Dillon Edwards on the true price of a cup of coffee

Published: March 20, 2018, 9:09 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 39 seconds

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Members of I-Collective on the state of Indigenous cuisine

Published: March 6, 2018, 10:14 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 21 seconds

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Sarahlynn Pablo and Natalia Roxas on pushing past the stinky food narrative

Published: Feb. 27, 2018, 10:37 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 49 seconds

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Andrea Fazzari on new-school Tokyo cuisine

Published: Feb. 16, 2018, 8:03 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 14 seconds

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Jen Monroe on digital food and consumption, and food porn as a signifier

Published: Feb. 7, 2018, 3:16 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 42 seconds

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Pietro Quaglia on his millenial pink, accidentally Instagrammable restaurant

Published: Jan. 23, 2018, 10:28 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 9 seconds

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Rob Newton on being a southern chef inspired by Vietnamese cooking

Published: Jan. 18, 2018, 4:44 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 30 seconds

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Soleil Ho and Kimberly Chou on appropriation in media

Published: Dec. 6, 2017, 10:45 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 3 seconds

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Josh Grinker on being a white dude on the wok

Published: Nov. 21, 2017, 10:53 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 38 seconds

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Sarah Lohman on the eight flavors that changed the way we eat

Published: Nov. 14, 2017, 9:42 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 13 seconds

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Krishnendu Ray on the price of immigrant foods in America

Published: Nov. 7, 2017, 9:41 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 53 seconds

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Joshua Ku and Trigg Brown on Taiwan, America, Taiwan-Americana

Published: Oct. 31, 2017, 8:39 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 56 seconds

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Ben Van Leeuwen on ice cream, his Indonesian restaurant, and cooking without borders

Published: Oct. 24, 2017, 9:03 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 16 seconds

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Adedoyin Teriba and Fred Opie on the origins of soul food

Published: Oct. 17, 2017, 8:56 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 1 second

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Timothy Hsu and Zach Mangan on who owns tea

Published: Oct. 10, 2017, 9:13 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 18 seconds

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Dan Pashman on heritage, nostalgia, and navigating food tensions

Published: Oct. 3, 2017, 8:37 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 50 seconds

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JT Vuong on cooking another's cuisine

Published: Sept. 26, 2017, 8:49 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 25 seconds

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Jeremy Umansky on his koji-fueled Jewish deli

Published: Sept. 12, 2017, 8:54 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 8 seconds

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Trailer: Meant To Be Eaten

Published: Aug. 31, 2017, 9:36 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 32 seconds

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