The Award-Winning Flavors of Oaxaca with Bricia Lopez

Your Mama’s Kitchen

Higher Ground

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Restauranteur and cookbook author Bricia Lopez takes us back to where her career in food really began -- the kitchen of the renowned, LA-based Oaxacan restaurant Guelaguetza, which her father opened in the 90's. Bricia and her siblings grew up washing dishes, bussing tables and helping their parents foster a sense of community for the Oaxacan diaspora in Los Angeles; something Bricia continues to do as one of the co-owners of the restaurant today. This conversation was recorded when record-breaking wildfires scorched LA earlier this year -- Bricia talks about how she was able to help through calling on her community. Plus, we hear how to make her mama's classic Huevo en Frijoles.

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1:10.5	I dream of being a Pepsi CEO or I don't know why. I don't know where that dream came from. It's very specific. I don't know if I saw it on a TV somewhere. Maybe it was the first time I saw like a woman in like a suit. I don't know maybe she was drinking. I always think of like a being a hiring,
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1:47.9	I think at the end of there, that's...
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1:53.3	And I just found my calling and what I do.
2:05.1	Hello, hello, and welcome back to your mama's kitchen.
2:10.9	This is the place where we explore how the kitchens that we grew up in as kids shape who we become as adults.
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