Gene editing, condiments, chai as compassion, corn as fuel
Good Food
KCRW
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Lauren Crossland-Marr explains how the gene editing technology CRISPR is impacting our food chain. Scholar and editor Darra Goldstein detonates the flavor bombs of preserved condiments. Kevin Wilson, aka the CEO of Chai, describes how a simple cup of tea can bring solace amid our mad world. Food and ag journalist Tom Philpott debunks the pro-ethanol POV. LA Times restaurant critic Bill Addison visits Yess, a new Japanese restaurant in the Arts District. At the farmer's market, chef Deau Arpapornnopparat shops for Holy Basil, his Atwater Village Thai restaurant.
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| 0:14.0 | From KCRW I'm Evan Klimin and you're listening to good food. |
| 0:20.0 | Maybe you've heard about the gene editing technology CRISPR. |
| 0:25.0 | This massive biotech breakthrough which has emerged in the last decade has mainly been touted for the ways it will let scientists edit the human genome, hopefully to cure genetic |
| 0:35.5 | diseases or perhaps more worryingly to create designer babies. But CRISPR is also |
| 0:41.9 | being used in another area, the world of food. |
| 0:45.0 | Cultural anthropologist Dr. Lauren Crossland Marr hosts a new five-part podcast, A CRISPRBITE. |
| 0:52.0 | She takes listeners into labs as... part podcast, A Crisper Bight. |
| 0:52.7 | She takes listeners into labs |
| 0:54.7 | as researchers tinker with the genes |
| 0:57.4 | in what we eat and drink. |
| 0:59.3 | What exactly are they trying to achieve |
| 1:01.6 | and what is at stake. |
| 1:03.8 | Hi, Lauren. |
| 1:05.2 | Hi, it's so nice to be here. |
| 1:07.6 | This is just so fascinating that you've chosen this |
| 1:10.8 | as a way to do an incredible deep dive. I'm wondering if it's inspiring or |
| 1:16.8 | horrifying. Well I hope by the end of the conversation it's both. |
| 1:21.8 | Yeah. it's both. What exactly is CRISPR? |
| 1:27.0 | I've sometimes heard it called DNA scissors, |
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