824: The Splendid Tour- Celebrating 30 Years: Live from Los Angeles

The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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We're back on the road to celebrate our 30th Anniversary! This week, we’re headed to Los Angeles, in partnership with LAist, to talk about the world-influencing food scene in LA and the community that brings it together. First, we dig into how LA dining influenced the country and the world with KCRW's very own Evan Kleiman, Host of Good Food, and Gab Chabrán, Associate Editor of Food and Culture at LAist. Then we talk community and the restaurants that foster those connections with chef-owners Uyên Lê, who makes delicious Vietnamese comfort food at her take-out, Bé Ù, Keith Corbin, executive chef and co-owner of Alta Adams, and bestselling author of his memoir, California Soul and Elvia and Alex Garcia, the James Beard nominated chef-owners of Evil Cooks, one of L.A.’s most lauded taqueria pop-ups now transformed into a full restaurant.

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April 11, 2025 (originally aired)

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0:00.0	The Splendid Table is supported by the 2025 James Beard Awards, presented by Capital One.
0:05.4	Over the years on our show, we've had the pleasure of talking with many James Beard Award winners and nominees.
0:11.1	From chefs to cookbook authors, to food journalists, to advocates and community leaders,
0:16.5	every James Beard Award winner has a unique path to their delectable cuisine,
0:25.1	one-of-a-kind restaurants, and captivating stories they bring to the culinary industry.
0:32.0	To learn more, visit the 2025 James Beard Awards hub at jamesbeard.org slash awards. And be sure to watch the James Beard Awards from Chicago on June 16th at 5.30 p.m. Eastern, live on Eater.
0:39.8	Picture a hash brown. Yep, there it is. Right there. Would you look at that? A golden oval
0:49.4	of crispy deliciousness. From where? Well, you already know. Breakfast, done properly. Serve them till 11 a.m.
1:02.4	I'm Francis Lamb and this is The Splendid Table from APM.
1:18.2	I honestly feel that dining in L.A. is to see the promise of America.
1:23.6	This incredible place where people come with impossible dreams and infinite grit.
1:28.2	You see their hard work. You see their creativity. The bounty of the Southern California land, and of course, the awesome mix of people and cultures that make up our country.
1:34.7	We got to do a live show in L.A. a few weeks ago as part of our tour of shows in celebration
1:39.4	of our 30th anniversary, and we're delighted to bring it to you today. For our first segment, our guests
1:45.8	were Evan Klyman and Gob Gibran. Gob is the associate editor of food and culture at LAist,
1:52.1	and is constantly scouring the city in search of amazing foods and the stories of the people
1:56.9	behind them. He was a James Peart Award finalist last year for this work, and Evan
2:01.4	Klyman is, well, Evan's a legend, a lotted chef and restaurateur, six-time cookbook author,
2:08.1	and the iconic host of LA's very own public radio show, Good Food, which also is turning
2:14.5	30 this year. Evan told me that before we got on stage, but said,
2:18.1	we're just not bragging about it.
2:21.8	Which is so funny to me because, you know,
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