Khushbu Shah: Call It Fusion With Intention

Food with Mark Bittman

Sweetness and Light

Nutrition, Arts, Food, Culture, Cooking, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.9 • 947 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The prolific food writer and cook talks to Mark and Kate about having one foot in two cultures; the auntie whisperer network – or, how Indians in America learned to make do without some of their beloved staples, and how they learned to make do with what was readily available; and why and how the term "fusion" got a dirty rep.

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0:00.0	Hello all and welcome to Food. I'm Kate Bitman and I'm so glad to be here with you.
0:08.0	As always if you want to reach us you can do so at food.atmarkbitman.com and you can find us online at bitman
0:14.8	project.com. This week Mark wrote about the wrap-up of his three-month trip.
0:20.3	He and Kathleen ended it in, of all places, Casablanca, which Mark was very happy about.
0:27.0	Because if you have to end a far-flung trip, is there a more poetic place to do it?
0:33.4	No.
0:34.4	We also debuted a new alliance with the publication Modern Farmer,
0:38.8	a nonprofit that seeks to engage its readers
0:41.5	in taking real-world action at the intersection of food, agriculture,
0:46.3	and society in North America.
0:48.4	We started this alliance on Thursday when we posted an excellent piece by Seed Dreams, originally on modern farmer, about how seeds
0:56.3	are the new contraband in US prisons, a way for prisoners to take their livelihoods into
1:01.7	their own hands, you might say.
1:04.0	Also, plenty more recipes were published, getting us up to more than 800 in our database.
1:09.0	Remember that select recipes are available to all?
1:12.0	Every single recipe is available to paid members.
1:15.3	If you'd like to join us,
1:16.7	use code annual one month when you sign up
1:19.4	and your first month is on us.
1:21.7	Bitman project.com. We'll get back to that conversation in a minute, but first I want to talk about
1:37.9	something that lots of people ask me about when it comes to global cuisines.
1:41.6	There is something magical about eating a
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