Bread, zero waste cooking, Korean fine dining
Good Food
KCRW
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Who owns Taco Tuesday? Gustavo Arellano weighs in on the legal skirmish around the phrase. Using slices, pieces, and crumbs, baker Rick Easton treats bread as an ingredient. Sisters Margaret and Irene Li crack the code for using wilted, nearly expired, and only-needed-a-tablespoon ingredients. Krista Burton makes a cross-country pilgrimage to visit the last lesbian bars in the US. LA Times restaurant critic Bill Addison sets his sights on a newish spot that brings Korean fine dining to Los Angeles. Meredith Pangrace delves into Midwest pies and their origins in a new cookbook.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Evan Klyman, and you're listening to good food. |
| 0:06.0 | Who owns the phrase, Taco Tuesday? |
| 0:12.0 | A lawsuit filed by a fast food be a month against a |
| 0:15.9 | mid-size of Wyoming-based chain aimed to settle that matter. The legal skirmish |
| 0:21.5 | looked like it was going to get messier than a wet burrito at the bottom of a high schooler's backpack. |
| 0:27.0 | Then in mid July, the company that had owned the Taco Tuesday trademark for 34 years suddenly announced it would end its fight to defend |
| 0:36.6 | the phrase. |
| 0:37.7 | What happened? |
| 0:38.9 | And what does that mean for those of us who love tacos, Tuesdays, and Taco Tuesday. |
| 0:44.8 | We decided to ask Los Angeles Times columnist |
| 0:47.8 | and KCRW contributor to Orange County Line, Gustavo Ariano. |
| 0:53.4 | Hi Gustavo. |
| 0:54.8 | Ola Ivan. |
| 0:56.7 | Let's start with a little history. |
| 0:58.1 | Tell us about the company that owned the Taco |
| 1:04.0 | Tuesday trademark. So it's this chain |
| 1:04.6 | Taco Johns which is based in Wyoming |
| 1:07.6 | that's actually one of the biggest |
| 1:09.6 | Mexican fast food chains in the country. It has over 400 locations. The food is |
| 1:15.0 | that's less than Taco Bell, but it's not disgusting. I mean, I think their |
| 1:21.0 | greatest contribution to mankind is that they consider tater-tots to be part of the Mexican food universe and so if you put some nacho cheese on them they're actually pretty good. |
| 1:39.0 | Wyoming, it just seems like such an odd duck for a company trademarking Taco Tuesday, although I guess Taco Tuesday, I don't know, is it kind of a white thing anyway? |
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