Welcome to Taste of Meaning! Hosts Charlie and Martin are joined by guest Kim Byrne, an educator and co-founder of "Together We Are Stronger," a non-profit, online apparel shop donating all sales to local organizations fighting against racism. Before the hosts spoke to Kim, they recapped having Yakitori over the weekend and how their experience went. Then they discussed how Charlie met Kim and learned of her activism against Asian Hate Crimes and racism. Kim joins the hosts and shares her background of being adopted as a Korean baby by an all-white family from New Jersey, and how she was able to have the opportunity to live in South Korea for over 7 years and learn more about her culture and roots now as an adult. We talked about her role as an educator and her responsibility to introduce her students to new backgrounds and learnings of different types of cultures. This conversation led to the start of her apparel shop and how her designs came from the signs she would make and utilize when protesting. After Kim leaves, the hosts expressed what take-aways they had from their interview and went into more depth around ethnic foods in American media and representation in education. Please enjoy this episode of the podcast!

Eat:

Kimchi - https://www.tablefortwoblog.com/how-to-make-homemade-kimchi/

Kimchi Jjigae - https://www.koreanbapsang.com/kimchi-jjigae-kimchi-stew/

Kimchijeon - https://www.koreanbapsang.com/kimchi-jeon-kimchi-pancake/

Kimchi Mandu - https://www.koreanbapsang.com/mandu-korean-dumplings/

Odeng - https://www.creatrip.com/en/blog/8855

Support:

Together We Are Stronger Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/togetherwearestronger/