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I want to tell you about another podcast I love for my old friends Amy S Choi and Rebecca

Laird.

You may remember them from our San Giving episode when they shared their experiences growing up in immigrant homes

and what it meant specifically for the Thanksgiving holiday. Well, the Mashup Americans is your guide

to the hyphen America world we all live in.

Amy and Rebecca talk culture, identity, race,

and what makes us who we are.

This season, they're giving you the ultimate guide to a mash-up life,

talking to dignitaries like Randall Park, Lisa Ling, Chani Nicholas,

and Rain Wilson about essential ways to create a rich, vibrant, cross-cultural life, and the future

we all want to live in. I can't recommend it enough.

Listen to mash up Americans wherever you get your podcasts.

I'm Francis Lamb and this is the splendid table from APM. You know, we romanticize food a lot. We reminisce about meals we've had like their major milestones and some of us make how much we like to eat like our whole personality.

But when you're just living your life, sometimes food is a huge deal and it needs to be,

and sometimes it's no big deal, and sometimes that's what it needs to be and sometimes it's no big deal and sometimes that's what it needs to be.

On today's show we have two wonderful food writers who tell us about how their

outlook on food changed because of a moment or a dish that just demanded it.

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