Hi, it's Evan, and it's our final show of 2025. It's our tradition to gather our favorite

segments of the year and put them in one year-end episode. Think of it as a finale of sorts. I always

love this show because it shows off the range that our little food show has. These segments cover

history, migration, and politics.

We have global stories and local stories, family stories, too.

And it's all filtered through the lens of food.

If I had to pick one theme for all these interviews, it's resilience.

I hope you enjoy them as much as we did. Here we go.

From KCRW, I'm Evan Klyman and this is Good Food. There are many casualties of war, the immediate

and personal, but other losses go unnoticed until later.

As culture is decimated amid global violence, food and culinary traditions can be the last remnants when everything else is left behind.

Michael Shake looks to those preserving their heritage after experiencing so much loss

in our modern world. His new book is The Last

Sweet Bite. Hi, Michael. Hi, thanks for having me. From the minute that our team read the intro,

oh, we were there. What a book. Wow, thank you. That means a lot of you coming from you guys.

Extraordinary. You quote historian Ansel Mahotra. Partition is not yet a thing of the past.

Would you share the story of your family specifically as it relates to your father's side?

So one of the roots of this book lies in the partition of India and Pakistan.

For the longest time as a child, I really wondered why my father hadn't taught us,

Cindy, his native language.

Growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, we went to a lot of parties as a little kid,

and my dad speaks multiple languages, and I always thought he had these magic powers, and I kind of

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