825: Celebrating 30 Years: Live from Seattle

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

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Arts, Food

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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We're on the road celebrating our 30th Anniversary and this week, we bring you an eventful night in Seattle in partnership with KUOW. First up, Valerie Segrest, cofounder of Tahoma Peak Solutions, and Jeremy Thunderbird, owner of Native Soul Cuisine, about the diversity of indigenous food, carrying on traditional recipes, and food sovereignty. Then, Tan Vinh, host of KUOW's Seattle Eats podcast, and Melissa Miranda, chef-owner of Musang and Kilig, talk about the rich Asian community food scene and then, Yasuaki Saito, owner of Saint Bread bakery, a semifinalist for the James Beard award for the best bakery in the country, and Janet Becerra, chef and founder of Pancita, and a semifinalist this year for Best Chef: Northwest, talk about how their local eateries reflect and serve their communities.

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May 9, 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.
0:41.8	Amazon offers employees up to £8,000 for education and training. Like Juliet. She's now a trained technician.
0:50.0	And to her, the sound of machinery in need of repair,
0:56.9	reminds her of how far she's come.
1:01.1	In two years, she's landed her dream job,
1:03.3	providing her with valuable skills.
1:07.4	That's up to £8,000 for education and training at Amazon.
1:09.6	Eligibility conditions apply. Hi, Frances Lamb Lamb and this is the splendid table from APM.
1:14.6	As we're touring the country this year for our 30th anniversary, I was especially excited to get back to Seattle.
1:29.6	We were there actually three years ago, and then we talked mostly to folks who worked at
1:34.2	incredible nonprofits, who work in job training, food security, and helping entrepreneurs.
1:39.5	So this time, we're psyched to dig more into the actual food of this incredibly battleful place.
1:45.6	And probably the first food that anyone thinks of when they think of Seattle is salmon.
1:50.5	I mean, the flying salmon at Pike Place Market have a great PR team, but far before that,
1:56.2	salmon had been key to the ecosystem and, in a lot of ways, to the culture of the indigenous people who lived here
2:02.6	well before there was a Seattle or a United States. Joining us first on stage at Town Hall, Seattle,
2:09.0	were two guests to talk about what indigenous or native food is and what it means. Valerie Seagrest
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