Best of 2022: Black Food Fridays, bananas, rye, Scottish bakes

Good Food

KCRW

Society & Culture

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week, the Good Food team revisits their favorite segments of the year. KJ Kearney, founder of Black Food Fridays, works to recognize the contributions of his ancestors every week. Anthropologist Deepa Reddy explains banana diversity in India which makes the fruit ubiquitous and vital to the country’s culture. Food scholar Darra Goldstein describes the evolution of Russian cuisine despite scarcity and isolation. To understand his cultural history and deepen his culinary passion, Austin-born Rick Martinez moved to Mexico and visited 32 states. Coinneach MacLeod spent much of his time during the pandemic baking. Soon, he became a TikTok star. At Bé Ù, Uyên Lê serves Vietnamese comfort and street food while promoting equity and sustainability.

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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Evan Klyman and you're listening to good food.
0:05.4	Merry Christmas everyone.
0:07.6	It's our final show of the year and per tradition we are celebrating by looking back.
0:13.6	Every December, the Good Food team puts our heads together
0:16.3	and selects our favorite interviews of the year.
0:19.3	I hate to call it a Best Of show because there are many favorites that don't make it in but for us these next segments were some of the highlights
0:29.5	Black Food Fact
0:30.5	Did you know that Disney's Princess Tiana from the Princess and the Frog, she actually drew inspiration from a real life person.
0:37.0	And that real life person was Leah Chase, the legendary chef in New Orleans.
0:41.0	She was known as the Queen of Creole Cuisine and she was a big
0:44.3	advocate for African American art and of course Creole cooking and when Disney
0:48.9	animators were looking for inspiration they stumbled upon her story and met with Leah Chase and the
0:54.5	rest was history.
0:57.0	How do we make change without being overt about it? That's been the question rattling around
1:05.0	KJ Kearney's brain these last few years. His answer? Black Food Fridays. In April 2020, he launched the initiative as a way to support Black owned restaurants.
1:17.0	Since then, his cheeky, hilarious, and informative videos have found a hungry audience.
1:23.2	Black Food Fridays has more than 100,000 followers on Instagram
1:27.3	and 155 followers on Tik-Tok.
1:30.5	And earlier this year, Kearney was nominated for a James Beard Award.
1:35.0	We asked him to join us to discuss the power of social media advocacy in our tech-driven world.
1:42.0	Hi KJ. in our tech-driven world.
1:44.8	Hi KJ.
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