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The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Food, Arts, Society & Culture

4.8 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

When L.A.’s Guelaguetza restaurant opened in the mid-’90s, mole and mezcal and all the other treasures of Oaxacan cuisine were a long way from the cachet they carry today. Co-owner Bricia Lopez joins Dave and Chris to talk about how her family helped put their culture on the map. Discussed: where Dave will retire, hunting wild boar in the 1930s, opening a Oaxacan restaurant in Koreatown, eating tlayudas at the Four Seasons, bringing your kids into the industry, Chris’s unwarranted tie-dye skepticism, making mole vs. making bolognese, smoke as a condiment, culinary bullshit detectors, roasting chiles and complaining, and Dave’s chipotle pepper misadventures. Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris Ying Guest: Bricia Lopez Associate Producer: Sasha Ashall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dan Chang Show, part of the Ringer podcast I work presented by Major
0:15.0	Dome of Media.
0:16.0	Thank you, A lot, Tango, as always.
0:18.6	We have today as our guest, Grisia Lopez, chef owner of Gala Giza in K town in Los Angeles.
0:25.8	She also has an amazing name, the website that hosts all of the products.
0:31.7	I love mule.com, author of Wohaka, Home Cooking from the Heart of Mexico.
0:37.6	She's also a podcast host with her sister Paula, podcast, his name's Super Mamas.
0:44.1	And we get into a whole host of things, Chris.
0:47.4	What do we talked about?
0:49.1	Mule.
0:50.1	He talked about mule.
0:51.1	And she also talked about things including, if I mispronounced everything including her name
0:55.3	and the name of the restaurant and mule itself, I apologize.
1:00.2	It makes me very reticent to even pronounce anything.
1:03.6	Because I hate.
1:05.4	Yeah, she did a lesson for us on how to pronounce all of things.
1:11.6	We were just like, Tim and students just quietly trying to repeat what she said.
1:16.8	Yes.
1:17.8	We joined us for an episode on the next thing you eat on Hulu.
1:23.2	But we'll get into that conversation.
1:25.8	It's a very funny one.
1:27.6	But I do know this.
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