Esculent

Esculent

By Elizabeth McQueenSociety & CultureArtsHistoryFood
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Esculent episodes

  • Cantaloupe Seeds and Colonialism with Chef Minh Phan

    A pinch of this and a pinch of that captures my conversation with Chef and Artist Minh Phan. We discuss her methods of fermentation all the way to rethinking efficiency in her anti-colonialist mindset. 

    Tasting: Los Angeles River Wine Company, Palomino, 2022

    Spam Jingle thanks to Janine Sun Rogers
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    LA Times Article: This Michelin-starred chef wants to feed people. So she closed her restaurants

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    Host: Elizabeth McQueen

    Producer: Stace Baran
    Theme by Ronan Delisle
    Audio Support from Jenevieve Bohmann

    38 min
  • Heat of the Hearth with Chef Martin Draluck

    Our inaugural episode features a tasting and conversation with Chef Martin Draluck of the Black Pot Supper Club, with a tasting of the inaugural whiskey from Uncle Nearest, the first black-owned whiskey distillery in the U.S.. It honors Nathan 'Nearest' Green, a formative distiller enslaved to Dan Call. Join us as our host Elizabeth McQueen talks with Chef Martin Draluck about the hearth in early American cooking techniques, performing for the camera in Netflix's High on the Hog, and what it means to reconstruct enslaved culinary histories.

    Tasting: Uncle Nearest 1856

    High on the Hog, Season 1 Episode 3: Our Founding Fathers

    Black Pot Supper Club

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    Host: Elizabeth McQueen

    Producer: Stace Baran
    Theme by Ronan Delisle
    Audio Support from Jenevieve Bohmann

    This podcast is supported by the UC Davis Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, Thinking Food at the Intersections.

    24 min

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A food podcast that explores how humans have defined what is, and isn’t, edible. Stay connected on…