Pie is not a drag, coffee for all, dry-aged fish

Good Food

KCRW

Society & Culture

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

If RuPaul, Rose Nylund and Julia Child had a baby, she'd be Bertha Mason, a Midwestern pie-baking drag queen with a killer sour cream and raisin pie recipe. Shanita Nicholas and Amanda-Jane Thomas put their legal careers in the rearview mirror to open a coffee spot in Inglewood to inspire community. “Fresh is boring,” according to fishmonger Liwei Liao, who operates the only market dry-aging fish in the country at The Joint along Ventura Boulevard. Neither rain nor hail can stop chefs from frequenting the Wednesday Santa Monica Farmers Market.

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0:00.0	I'm eating already.
0:02.0	Nobody has made any pie yet yet I'm still eating.
0:05.0	I would love to eat, but I'm afraid of smearing the lipstick and the makeup because I put it on with a trowel.
0:10.0	From KCRW, I'm Evan Kliman. You're listening to good food and today we start out baking with Bertha.
0:21.0	I am from the great state of Minnesota out there. Oh yeah where it snows and I come from a town
0:27.3	called Gopher Prairie Minnesota. It's a lot like a Norman Rockwell painting except we have a target and a crystal meth problem.
0:35.5	Anyway, I want to encourage you all to drink more
0:39.2	because the more you drink, the funnier I get,
0:41.9	and the pie will taste so much better okay?
0:44.8	Imagine if RuPaul and Rose Island had a baby and then threw in a dash of Julia Child
0:51.2	you'd get Bertha a Midwestern Pie Baking Drag Queen who lives by the motto,
0:56.3	Feel Bitter, Ad Butter, feel better.
0:59.7	Bertha is the comedic creation of the Chicago transplant Michael Bowen.
1:04.6	When he performs as Bertha, it's not typically in bars or nightclubs.
1:09.2	Instead, he leads baking with Bertha private performances that usually happen in homes or churches for small groups of eight or so people.
1:17.5	They are equal parts baking class and comedy set.
1:21.5	Hi Michael.
1:23.0	Hello Evan.
1:24.0	I had so much fun at your class a few days ago.
1:28.0	I'm so glad you attended.
1:30.0	It was a wonderful time and I am so glad that you got a chance to see what baking with Bertha is and experience it in the flesh.
1:39.0	Yeah, now I'm curious about Michael.
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