ICE raids on taqueros, Creole cooking, the food of displacement

Good Food

KCRW

Society & Culture

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

From the latest on ICE raids in Los Angeles to the legacy of Creole cuisine:

Memo Torres reports on how immigration raids are impacting local food businesses
Hawa Hassan, who escaped civil war in Mogadishu, shares stories of displacement in eight other regions of the world
Nina Compton makes a case for New Orleans and the Caribbean sharing a similar "self of being"
Journalist Christina Cooke visits Patrick Brown on his farm in North Carolina, where he is reclaiming his family's history and land

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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Evan Klyman and this is good food.
0:05.3	Two weeks ago, you know, my life was pretty calm, you know, and we were working at LA Taco
0:12.2	to figure out what content to push out. I was visiting restaurants. I was visiting at
0:17.3	taco stands. And I have about five stories of an inspirational little restaurants,
0:22.0	great food that I was going to write about.
0:24.6	Now we can't keep up.
0:27.2	We're overwhelmed.
0:28.7	Emotions are high.
0:30.5	Everybody's on the edge.
0:32.8	Anxiety levels.
0:34.5	Emotions.
0:35.4	I mean, it's nuts.
0:36.6	I can't even put it into words. And now,
0:39.0	instead of writing about food, I'm writing about everything that's happening because of
0:43.2	ICE's raids in LA.
0:48.7	Usually, we turn to Memo Torres to talk about where to find the best possole or carnitas or to make sense of
0:56.5	LA's unrelenting obsession with Bedia. This week's conversation is different. Over the last two weeks
1:04.7	as videos of ICE agents tackling people at bus stops or handcuffing fruit vendors on street corners spread across the
1:12.7	internet. The food landscape in Los Angeles has been terrorized by fear. Families are scared to
1:21.1	leave their house for groceries. Taqueros are scared to go to work. Restaurant and bakery owners are prepping employees on what to do should ICE show up at their
1:32.2	workplace.
1:34.2	Los Angeles has always been a city of immigrants, and we wear it like a badge of honor.
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