Black Food Fridays, remembering Diana Kennedy, vegan butchers

Good Food

KCRW

Society & Culture

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

KJ Kearney, founder of Black Food Fridays, works to recognize the contributions of his ancestors one day at a time. LA Times Food Editor Daniel Hernandez and chef Gabriela Camara remember Mexican food and culture icon Diana Kennedy. Spirits writer Camper English tells the tale of booze as a cure-all throughout history. Joe Egender and Maciel Bañales Luna open the first vegan butcher shop in Los Angeles. Finally, Sonoko Sakai shops for peppers for furikake at the farmers market.

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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Evan Kliman and you're listening to good food. Black Food Fact.
0:17.0	Did you know that Disney's Princess Tiana from the Princess and the Frog,
0:20.5	she actually drew inspiration from a real life person and that real life
0:24.3	person was Leah Chase the legendary chef in New Orleans. She was known as the Queen of Creole
0:29.4	cuisine and she was a big advocate for African American art and of course Creole cooking and when
0:34.8	Disney animators were looking for inspiration they stumbled upon her story and met with
0:39.7	Leah Chase and the rest was history.
0:49.0	How do we make change without being overt about it? That's been the question rattling around K.J. Kearney's brain these last few years. His answer?
0:56.2	Black Food Fridays. In April 2020 he launched the initiative as a way to support black-owned
1:02.4	restaurants.
1:03.4	Since then, his cheeky, hilarious, and informative videos have found a hungry audience.
1:09.6	Black Food Fridays has more than 100,000 followers on Instagram and 155 followers on Tik-Toc.
1:17.2	And earlier this year, Kearney was nominated for a James Beard Award.
1:21.4	We asked him to join us to discuss the power of social media advocacy
1:26.6	in our tech-driven world.
1:30.3	Hi KJ.
1:31.3	That was a beautiful intro. Thank you for having me.
1:34.7	It's our pleasure. Can you explain the goal with Black Food Fridays?
1:40.3	How long did you spend thinking about it before you put it into action?
1:44.0	Man, to answer the second part of the question, maybe 15 minutes,
1:49.0	like it took me 15 minutes to decide and then execute, you know, pull the trigger, get the email address
1:56.1	the whole nine, start the Instagram account.
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