In Search of "Real" Food [Rebroadcast]
Wonder Cabinet
Wonder Cabinet Productions
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
What makes food "authentic"? Do we need to feel close to where it's made? Know the complete history of where it comes from? Be able to diagram the chemistry of how it dances along our taste buds? How can we quantify the romance between eaters and the food they love?
In this hour, we talk about what it means to truly love what you eat and drink — and we ask why it matters.
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| 0:00.0 | It's to the best of our knowledge from PRX. |
| 0:04.0 | What is real food? |
| 0:07.0 | And how far would you go to find it? |
| 0:09.0 | I sold my house, I quit my job, and I embarked on this journey across six continents |
| 0:15.0 | to go to the deep origins where our foods are born. |
| 0:18.0 | I want to reclaim what's mine. I'm Anne Strange Champs, and today we're |
| 0:22.9 | talking about authenticity in cooking and eating what it means and why it matters. In our family, |
| 0:30.0 | the highest compliment anything could get was that it tasted like Iran. How have you found your |
| 0:36.5 | identity in African American, Jewish, gay culture through food? |
| 0:41.3 | I'm a little, as we call my grandmother, Grammy. |
| 0:44.3 | So I'm a little Grammy, I'm a little bubby. |
| 0:47.3 | I'm a little queen mother of the house. |
| 0:50.3 | I'm all of those pieces. |
| 0:52.3 | Today we go looking for deep flavors, personal identity, and love in food. |
| 1:00.4 | It's to the best of our knowledge from PRX. |
| 1:03.6 | I'm Anne Strain Champs. |
| 1:05.6 | Walk through the largest supermarket chain in America. |
| 1:08.9 | 20 different kinds of potato chips. |
| 1:13.4 | 153 flavors of ice cream, |
| 1:20.0 | an acre of cold cereal. Why do we have so many choices? Or do we? |
| 1:26.0 | Good morning. How was doing today. |
| 1:31.3 | At Walmart, I went through all the dairies. |
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