From KCRW, I'm Evan Kliman and you're listening to good food.

If you're like me, there's a good chance you're still full

from Thursdays Thanksgiving feast.

So today in the show, I picked out some of my favorite segments to fill your mind rather than your belly.

Segments about our relationship to the natural world and to each other. The holiday season is a time of hospitality.

This time of year the role of host and guests are amplified and extend beyond the act of feeding someone.

So I've been thinking about my conversation with activist and essayist, Priya Basel.

In her book Be My Guest, Priya explores the meaning of generosity through the lens of food and

beyond.

Hi Priya.

Hi, Evan.

So this notion of give and take and how hospitality runs into other aspects of our emotional life is really fascinating. Can we start with the word itself?

It's etymology and what's wrapped up in that?

I was so intrigued to find out about the roots of hospitality when I was researching for this book.

So one thing is that the word is it shares a root with the word hostility. They both come from the Indo-European word gosti, which meant

host, guest and stranger simultaneously. And I thought that this kind of trio of words was so powerful and so interesting

because it seems to me that those are the three roles through which we move consciously or

unconsciously throughout our lives.

It's really fascinating and also you talk about hospitality as beginning at

birth where we are creatures that need everything done for us and that you

talk about raising children as ultimate hospitable act and how maturity equals growing up. Can you talk a bit about that?

Yeah, it was a sort of transition that I felt myself going through in relation to my mother.

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