Meant To Be Eaten

A conversation with Leslie Bow. Leslie Bow is the author of Partly Colored - a book that look at 1954 American literature, film, autobiography, ethnography, and pop culture, to investigate the ways in which “in-between” people and communities were treated in the South.

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A few years ago, Dave Haeselin, an English professor at the University of North Dakota, moonlighted as a sugar beet truck driver...and he learned one or two things about himself and the world around him. We discuss Culinary Luddism, and the (in)authenticity of food (industrial/""fake"" vs. organic/""real""), selves (what's a non-Midwesterner with a PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies doing driving a beet truck anyway?), and communication (why digital culture is ruining our ability to interface with each other).

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Katie Rue is the owner of Reception Bar - a self-proclaimed Korean-American bar in the Lower East Side. The cocktails feature not only Asian ingredients, but traditional combinations of ingredients found in Korean healing elixirs; the pink of the booths and glowy lighting, meanwhile, feel very '80s Miami. She’s here to talk with me about what it means to feel neither Korean, nor American, nor entirely Korean-Americans… and what unique, creative things arise from that tension of identity.

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Jack (John Kuo Wei) Tchen is a facilitator, teacher, historian, curator, re-organizer, and dumpster diver. He co-founded the Museum of Chinese in America in 1979-80 where he continues to serve as senior historian. He’s researched and written widely on Chinatowns and anti-Asian fears, on everyday intermingling and improvisations; and is currently grappling with issues like dispossession, climate change, and why it’s especially important for those in/around food to lead change…so, a little bit of everything this episode.

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A Conversation with Maggie Gray, Sarah Horton, Vanesa Ribas, and Angela Stuesse. A forum of four authors of books on food politics. Maggie Gray (Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic), Sarah Horton (They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields: Illness, Injury, and “Illegality” among U.S. Farmworkers), Vanesa Ribas (On the Line: Slaughterhouse Lives and the Making of the New South), and Angela Stuesse (Scratching Out a Living: Latinos, Race, and Work in the Deep South) discuss their respective approaches to analyzing immigrant workers’ contested and changing roles in the U.S. food system.

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Cafes offer up this unique third space - not home, nor work - for people to be private in a public space. Merry White, professor of Anthropology at Boston University, studies just this: cafes and cafe culture, but in Japan. Her book, Coffee Life in Japan, “part ethnography, part memoir”, traces Japan’s cafe’s society over the past century and a half.

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A conversation with Chris Cheung. Google today’s guest, and immediately pops up the article titled, “Chris Cheung respects tradition, by breaking it,” - a clickbaity headline that’s buzzy, but incomplete and not quite correct… much like our topic at hand today. Chris Cheung is chef-owner of East Wind Snack Shop; we discuss the (un)lucky openings as of late.

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Gaik Cheng Khoo's (author of Eating Together) research exists at the intersection of food and race, culture, and identity. In this episode, we discuss what it means to be ""modern Malaysian"", the South Korean hansik globalization campaign, and frozen durian foodways. She is a professor at the University of Nottingham, in Malaysia.

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Takeyuki Tsuda (Gaku) has been researching the ethnic minority status of Japanese Americans across generations, and the extent to which they remain connected to their ethnic heritage. How do Japanese-Americans’ differ across countries, let alone generations? Having been in America as long as (if not longer than) other immigrants, why are Asian-Americans still constantly defending their ‘Americanness’? We discuss the ways in which generations of Japanese-Americans respond to these pressures.

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Sarita See is author of The Decolonized Eye and The Filipino Primitive, Media and Cultural Studies professor at UC Riverside, and founder of the online exhibition space, Center for Art and Thought. We discuss the complicated history of colonization in the Phillipines (and lasting effects on the diaspora), Edward Said's orientalism, Karl Marx's primitive accumulation, the importance of curation in a digital (trash) age, and how to criticize Asian diasporic art as a member of the Asian diaspora.

And yes - this all ties back to food.

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