Food Without Borders

Haiti-born Nicky Marcelin is the chef and founder of Epicurious Safari, a food experience company that curates intimate culinary events rooted in the African Diaspora. Tune in to hear Nicky tell her story of being an immigrant in the food industry.

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Puerto Rican activist Michelle Carrera founded Chilis on Wheels in 2014 when she couldn’t find a soup kitchen in NYC that served vegan meals. The non-profit has grown from her small kitchen to over ten chapters of volunteers across the US, including Puerto Rico and Hawaii, sharing warm meals, clothing, toiletries and workshops with people in need. Michelle talks about making veganism accessible & liberating for everyone, unschooling her son, sharing their home with two chickens, doing food relief work after Hurricane Maria, and founding Casa Vegana de la Comunidad, a vegan community center and microsanctuary in San Juan.

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Born and raised in NYC, Amy Quichiz is the founder of Veggie Mijas, a national collective for women and non-binary people of color that's rooted in the intersection of race, gender identity, class, sexuality and veganism. Amy talks about the pervasive whiteness in mainstream feminism & veganism, making her family's Peruvian & Colombian dishes plant-based, and building community based on radical liberation for all.

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Iraqi-born Reem Rahin Hassani, co-founder of Numi Organic Tea, talks about starting an organic fair trade company with her brother that supports labor equity in the tea industry. She's joined by Jane Franch, Numi's director of strategic sourcing and sustainability.

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Chef Saul Montiel of Cantina Rooftop came to NYC from Atotonilco el Grande, a small town in Central Mexico, at age 15 and worked from dishwasher to executive chef. He preserves Mexican history through its cuisine and pushes back on decades of US commercialization of Mexican food.

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Caracas-born chef Adriani Urbina left Venezuela to study culinary arts in France, Spain, and NYC where she started a restaurant and hospitality group and became a 3X champion of Food Network's Chopped. On today's episode, we'll discuss Chef Urbina's heritage and culinary achievements as well as her activism in women's righs and the Venezuelan crusis.

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In our first episode of Season 5, we’re joined by Saigon-born Henry Trieu, chef and founder of Falansai. Henry came to the US as a refugee and worked in restaurants spanning French, Chinese, & Vietnamese cuisine before opening Falansai in Bushwick, where he makes globally-influenced Vietnamese street food under a name that carries its own special meaning.

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Raised in East New York, 22-year-old Francesca Chaney grew up in an apartheid food desert with limited access to affordable plant-based foods. Connecting the ties between food, holistic wellness and economic equity is the driving mission behind her restaurant, Sol Sips, a vegan eatery in the heart of Bushwick, Brooklyn. It’s an evolving community-centered space where dishes inspired by Francesca’s Caribbean, Midwestern and Southern roots provide nourishment both in and outside of the restaurant through sliding-scale brunch, upcoming collaborations with local farms, and free ongoing cooking classes for people from Bushwick to East Flatbush.

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On today's episode, we are joined by the founders of Spice Tree Organics, Doaa Elkady and Freda Nokaly, both Egyptian-American Muslim women who left careers in journalism & engineering (respectively) to start a business together blending the spices they grew up cooking with. Through their ethically sourced and small-batch organic spice blends, they impart flavor and share their cultural heritage. Join us for a candid conversation about being female, Egyptian, and Muslim food entrepreneurs in a post-Trump era.

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Ysanet Batista is the founder of Woke Foods, a food justice worker-owned cooperative that uses plant based food and farming as a tool of empowerment for people in her community to heal from trauma, engage in community activism and decolonize their diets. A queer Black-Dominican woman raised between Harlem, Florida and the Dominican Republic who proudly started her business while still on food stamps, Ysanet engages with economic need and systemic inequity, doing work that unpacks historical racial tensions, teaches holism through herbs & plants, and uses her platform to speak out against racial economic injustice on behalf of fellow small business owners of color in New York City.

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