All You Can Eat: Ringing in the Lunar New Year with Asian-American Desserts

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🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In many Asian families, the highest compliment you can offer a dessert is, “it’s not too sweet!” Bringing in flavor profiles from Asian cultures like pandan leaves, black sesame, and ube, bakers around the Bay are reimagining Asian- American dessert offerings. There’s choux pastry covered in almond crunch and filled with durian cream or a thumbprint cookie with an umeboshi plum center. On the next edition of All You Can Eat with KQED food editor Luke Tsai, we’ll talk to bakers and cookbook authors about Asian-American desserts and the role they play in Lunar New Year celebrations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.2	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal, and all you can eat our regular segment with KQED food editor Luke Sy is back today.
0:52.0	As we get ready for a lunar new year, we're talking with a set
0:55.2	of Asian American bakers and cookbook authors who are reimagining the traditional desserts of their
1:01.1	cultures. Pastery filled with durian cream, a thumbprint cookie with an Umaboshi plum center, a Danish
1:07.9	filled with sesame and Yuzu. These are treats that you're unlikely to find in
1:12.0	Asia, nor are you likely to find them outside Filipino, Vietnamese, and Chinese American
1:16.8	kitchens and imaginations. I'm already ravenous for all these things. Join me in Extreme Hunger
1:22.7	after this news.
1:34.1	Welcome to Forum.
1:39.5	I'm Alexis Madrigal, and welcome to the latest edition of our collaboration with the KQED food team, All You Can Eat.
1:41.8	As usual, we're joined by KQED Food Editor, Luke, welcome, Luke.
1:46.9	Hi, Alexis. Thanks so much.
1:48.6	So we've got Lunar New Year coming up, time for celebration, some sweets. We wanted to check
1:53.6	in with a crew of bakers and cookbook authors who are creating a distinctly Asian-American set of
1:59.5	foods, steeped in Bay Area culinary customs, as well as our particular cultural mix.
2:05.4	They are the new wave.
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