Two culinary memoirs, an African nuptial ceremony, and a tortilla winner

Good Food

KCRW

Society & Culture

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In his new memoir, Chef Keith Corbin reflects on his childhood in Watts and awakening his palate in prison. Marion Nestle is best known for her groundbreaking work “Food Politics” but her path to get there was winding, as she shares in a new memoir. For Mazuba Kapambwe-Mizzi, when she was planning her wedding in her native country of Zambia, ichilanga mulilo was a part of the celebrations. Award-winning chefs Jody Williams and Rita Sodi have nurtured a legion of devoted diners in Greenwich Village and share their recipes in a new cookbook. Phil Rosenthal visits Philadelphia, Austin, Croatia, and Santiago in the sixth season of Netflix’s “Somebody Feed Phil.” Finally, La Princesita took home the gold at last weekend’s Tortilla Tournament. To commemorate their win, Good Food revisits a conversation with Monica Ramirez and Enrique Rodriguez.

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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Evan Kliman, and you're listening to good food.
0:07.0	I've lived my entire life wearing masks that will get me through the next day in projects in prison. That's what Fresh came in. In both those places
0:16.2	vulnerability was a liability. So I did what I
0:22.8	needed to do to survive. I cloaked myself in a predator's thread to avoid becoming prey. I
0:26.4	embodied fresh, not Keith. And the things that fresh did and the things that
0:31.1	Fresh was known for and the things that Fresh was known for and the things that Fresh was
0:34.2	comfortable with all those things Keith was fearful of. Keith always wanted a
0:39.8	family. Keith always wanted an education, but given the climate he lived in, he had to create this fresh character.
0:47.0	Keith had to put up these walls surrounding him, so that to hurt him, you'd have to go through Fresh first, and you didn't fuck with Fresh.
0:55.0	Fresh was with the violence.
0:59.0	Fresh was with the hustling.
1:01.0	Fresh was with disrespect. Fresh didn't give a shit about prison time. Fresh was all of that.
1:07.0	In a free place and time, I would happily have been Keith and seeing how far I would run with that.
1:14.0	Dominate that debate team in high school in college.
1:17.0	Be a history professor or maybe a big time litigator.
1:21.0	In either way, get really fucking good at golf but that's not the life I'd lived so when I made the decision to be done with all the gangsters
1:30.4	shit for real it wasn't like I could just give notice to Grape Street gangsters
1:33.0	give notice to Grape Street.
1:35.0	Gangsters don't retire.
1:37.0	They get retired.
1:38.0	Moved from the streets to ink on your body or tags on walls.
1:43.2	I needed a different plan.
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