KQED Series ‘Beyond the Menu’ Tells the Backstory of Food

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4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Hong Kong’s famed pineapple bun does not contain pineapples. Samosas can be found in many cultures outside of India. And the birria taco owes a lot to indigenous cultures who helped cultivate a love and devotion to chiles. These are some of the surprising food backstories that host Cecilia Phillips and the team behind KQED’s digital program “Beyond the Menu” explore in this new series. We’ll talk to Philips about where our favorite foods come from and hear from you. What dishes do you love that have an intriguing backstory? Guests: Cecilia Phillips, host, "Beyond the Menu" a KQED digital production focused on getting the backstory of some of our favorite dishes; coordinating producer and reporter, "Check, Please! Bay Area" Emmanuel Galvan, founder and owner, Bolita: Masa y Más L.L.C. - makes and sells artisanal masa and other products Hetal Vasavada, author, "Milk and Cardamom"; former contestant, MasterChef; Vasavada's work can also be found in Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, and other publications Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:24.6	There is so much history in the foods that we eat. Their ingredients
1:28.8	speak to the arcs of deep human time, all the hands that saved seeds to domesticate the crops
1:34.2	we love and eat. The dispersal of all those plants around the world testifies to the globalization
1:39.2	of human life on this planet, forced through colonization or chosen through migration. And the preparations that yield us,
1:45.8	the pineapple bun or samosas,
1:48.0	speak to the cross-cultural invention
1:50.1	that humans simply cannot help but engage in.
1:53.0	These are the stories we're telling this morning
1:55.3	as we introduce you to the new KQED video series
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