Pakistani mangoes and the man who sells them

Good Food

KCRW

Society & Culture

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

How one man's fruity side hustle became a cash cow

There are many ways to look at the Louvre but writer Elaine Sciolino invites us to view the largest museum in the world through the lens of food
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Since stress for farmers is deeply intertwined with the land, social worker Kaila Anderson developed a tool to treat depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues among farmers
Omar Vaid didn't set out to be one of Southern California's most prolific mango dealers — he had greatness thrust upon him
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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Evan Klyman and this is good food. The Louvre in Paris is the biggest and most
0:11.6	visited museum in the world. It has 400 rooms. According to writer and journalist Elaine
0:18.3	Cholino, it would require 18,000 steps to walk through all of them.
0:24.0	Of course, you should see the Mona Lisa and Venus de Milo, but in Adventures in the Louvre,
0:29.2	how to fall in love with the world's greatest museum, she invites us to see the museum through my
0:34.2	favorite lens, food. Hi, it's so great to have you on the show. Oh, I am delighted to
0:41.2	meet you via phone, but someday we'll meet in person. I would love that. So I want to talk about the Louvre.
0:49.3	It can be very intimidating. Nothing about it is casual. You have to plan ahead. It's crowded. There is
0:56.7	immense pressure to do it right or to see the Mona Lisa. So give us your pitch for the Louvre.
1:04.4	What does the museum mean to you? And as visitors, how should we tackle our first or second or even 10th visit?
1:14.3	Well, there are two types of visitors.
1:16.4	The visitors who have not seen the Mona Lisa and the visitors who have the freedom to do everything else.
1:22.0	And if you haven't seen the Mona Lisa and you have to see her, you've got to be geared for battle.
1:26.9	I'm an ex-war correspondent,
1:29.2	even though I wrote this book on the Louvre. And so you've got to make sure that you
1:35.1	never go to the Louvre with an empty stomach or with a full bladder. You go with comfortable
1:41.1	shoes. You go in a certain time of day because you've got to check this
1:45.8	off your list and then have the freedom to see the rest of the museum. But then once you've
1:51.4	seen her and you've gotten her out of the way, you can look at the Louvre, slice and dice it
1:55.5	any way you want. And one of the best ways to see the Louvre is through the prism of food because everybody's got to
2:01.8	eat and even if you're not an art expert you can relate to food yeah i in museums i i always look for
2:10.2	food and tableware it kind of grounds me and makes me feel like i have something in common with the
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