Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend!

A podcast for long-distance besties everywhere.

I'm Amina Tusso and I'm Anne Friedman.

What's up this week?

On today's agenda, we are talking about women who have shaped the way we eat in America.

I love this topic.

Our guest is Meuk Sen, who is one of my favorite food writers and profile crafters.

He is a James Beard Award winner, which is honestly a huge deal in the food world.

And he has taught food journalism at New York University since 2019.

We chatted today about his new book, Taste Bakers,

Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America,

which contains profiles of women chefs whose cookbooks

honestly, sadly, have long fallen out of print, most of them,

but whose influence is undeniable.

I love this book as a work of narrative storytelling,

as a work of reclaiming history, and the way that I felt I really got to know these women

over the course of these many pages.

I really, really recommend it for the food nerd in your life,

for the history buff in your life, and here I am with Meuk.

Meuk, welcome to the podcast.

Thank you for having me, and I'm so excited to be here.

I loved your book so much, truly.

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