The multigenerational Korean kitchen, night fishing, cooking seafood

Good Food

KCRW

Society & Culture

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

It's Mother's Day weekend and we head to the sea

Sarah Ahn's viral food videos of her mom have captivated millions of viewers with their behind-the-scenes look at Korean cooking and multigenerational life
Environmental photographer Arati Kumar-Rao goes night fishing alongside dolphins on the Brahmaputra River
Tyler Harper dons a wetsuit, often during storms, and heads out into the turbulent surf to fish for striped bass in the secretive and dangerous sport known as "wetsuiting"
Ari Kolender of Found Oyster and Queen St. Raw Bar & Grill has tips for cooking fish and shellfish with confidence
The Santa Monica Farmers Market says goodbye to longtime vendor Kandarian Organic Farms

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0:00.0	I'm Adeline Brand, host of KCRW's Press Play.
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0:48.9	From KCRW, I'm Evan Klyman, and this is good food.
0:55.7	There is nothing like watching a home cook who has been cooking for her entire life do her thing in the kitchen.
1:02.4	That's just one of the pleasures of watching the woman who has become Uma or Korean mom to millions of social media users.
1:14.0	Daughter Sarah An has documented hundreds of cooking sessions with her mom, Nam Sun Un, and along the way, many have learned a cuisine and gotten to know
1:20.5	the multi-generational household. Their new book is Uma, a Korean mom's kitchen wisdom and 100 family recipes. Hi. Hi, Evan. Thank you so much for
1:30.6	having me. I am such a fan. I am on TikTok. And I don't love a lot of the cooking videos that go on
1:38.1	there. But from when I saw, the very first one that I saw of yours, I knew that something was very, very
1:44.1	different with
1:45.0	your entire approach. Your relationship with your mother is very tender, mega respectful,
1:51.9	and so intimate. And all of that manages to come through while the viewer can clearly see
2:00.3	what's happening in the pot. That is not easy to do.
2:04.1	Thank you for recognizing that. I would say our relationship is very close. And I always say
2:10.2	the theme of Honest Kitchen is the richness in the ordinary in capturing those fleeting but intimate
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