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🗓️ 11 February 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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With a modest Kickstarter campaign, Jenny Nguyen decided to flip the script on the traditional sports bar, opening a watering hole dedicated to supporting women’s athletics. Avish Naran puts a twist on traditional sports bar fare with an Italian-American and Indian mashup at Pijja Palace. Beny Ashburn and Teo Hunter of Crowns & Hops team up with Allagash to curate beer with purpose. Mara Herbkersman and Emily Bielagus are poised to bring the lesbian bar back to LA with Ruby Fruit. Sunyoon Choi and Eric Watkins document the meals and menial tasks of domestic life in Korean American Cooking Comics. Finally, independent producer Gideon Brower uncovers the quirky tale of edible underwear.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Evan Klineen, and you're listening to good food. |
| 0:05.8 | Are you ready for some football? |
| 0:09.0 | More like, are you ready for some bar food? |
| 0:12.2 | Wings, pints, and large screen TVs, |
| 0:15.0 | gathering with like-minded fans |
| 0:18.0 | to cheer on our favorite team. |
| 0:19.0 | Well, it's a national pastime. |
| 0:21.0 | And as sports bars fill up for Super Bowl Sunday, we wanted to reach out to |
| 0:26.3 | Jenny Wynne. With a modest kick-starter campaign, she flipped the script on the traditional watering hole dedicated to athletics. |
| 0:35.1 | The walls of her Portland, Oregon bar are covered in posters of female athletes, |
| 0:40.0 | flags, scarves, and of course large screen TVs to watch the game. |
| 0:45.0 | She joins us to explain why she decided to open the sports bra. |
| 0:50.0 | Hi, Jenny. |
| 0:52.0 | Hello, how are you? |
| 0:54.0 | So when did you conceive of the idea to open a sports bar devoted to female athletes and women's |
| 1:01.3 | sports? |
| 1:02.3 | How successful was this Kickstarter campaign that you did? |
| 1:07.5 | Yeah, so I think that there is kind of a universal experience among women's sports fans where it's always been this very commonplace feeling of not being able to watch women's sports outside of an arena where you purchased a ticket, |
| 1:25.2 | you know, to go see a live game or outside of, you know, social media or following it on your computer, on your phone. |
| 1:32.0 | So my friends and I, we constantly would go out to bars and restaurants |
| 1:36.5 | to go find these games, and it was always an inconvenience, |
| 1:40.0 | anywhere from an inconvenience to impossible, really there were times where everybody was there for a big game it was a men's sports game and they wouldn't change a channel because everybody was watching something else but you know there was always times where we'd go in |
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