All You Can Eat: Funky Foods We Aren’t Supposed to Love, But Do

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🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Durian is a pungent, rank smelling fruit common in Singapore that is hard to harvest and cut open. And yet, it’s inspired scores of devotees, including food writer Jennifer Wong, who writes, “For those of us who hail durian as our king of fruits, the smell elicits an undeniable longing — for both the fruit itself and the cultural remembrance it represents.” Whether it’s stinky tofu, roasted grasshoppers or chicken feet, many cultures embrace foods that might come off as unappetizing at first sniff. So, how do some seemingly unusual ingredients become delicacies? In our latest All You Can Eat segment with KQED Food Editor Luke Tsai, we dive into funky foods that we aren’t supposed to love – but do so unabashedly. Guests: Luke Tsai, food editor, KQED Arts & Culture Javier Cabral, Editor, L.A. Taco - independent local news and culture site, and Associate producer for the Taco Chronicles on Netflix Jennifer Wong, author of the article "A Bay Area Love Letter to Durian," published on KQED Arts and Culture Monica Martinez, Founder and CEO,Don Bugito - a San Francisco company that makes protein snacks from edible insects Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:11.0	Durian is pungent and San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:14.1	Durian is pungent and beloved.
1:19.8	Common in Singapore, it's hard to harvest and to cut open, but for food writer Jennifer Wong,
1:26.8	the smell elicits an undeniable longing for both the fruit itself and the cultural remembrance it represents. Whether it's stinky tofu, roasted grasshoppers, or chicken feet, many cultures embrace foods
1:32.6	that might be startling to people from the outside.
1:35.7	So how do these seemingly unusual ingredients become delicacies?
1:39.6	That's what we'll be talking about with KQED Food Editor to Luke's side.
1:42.9	That's right, it's time for another
1:44.7	edition of All You Can Eat, our regular series on the Barriers Food Cultures. We're talking unusual
1:49.9	foods after this news.
1:59.6	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. Allow me to extol the virtues of wheat locoche,
2:06.8	corn fungus that looks kind of like eyeballs and that's been eaten by the indigenous peoples of what is now Mexico for a long time.
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