If we can introduce kids to a more diverse set of cuisines at an early age, they will grow up thinking

about food in a much more inclusive manner, not thinking of non-Western foods or foods they didn't grow up with as other, as weird.

They will grow up with these foods much more normalized in their minds.

And, you know, my hope is that being a more open and empathetic eater equals being a more

open and empathetic person.

Welcome to Didn't I Just Feed You, a podcast for Busy Home Cucks.

Hey, I'm Megan.

And I'm Stacy.

So you guys, today, in a way, kind of unexpectedly, too, we are continuing a conversation

that we started back in March.

So if you haven't listened to our episode, how do we introduce my kids to new flavors?

Go to our show notes, either on our website or in the player, however you're playing this episode now, and there will be a link there.

But we basically had a listener ask us about how to introduce her kids to new

cuisines. And she had a couple of concerns about it. One was, you know, she wanted to be mindful of

cultural appropriation. She also wanted it to be affordable. She didn't feel like she had the time or the

budget to go to all different global

markets and get all kinds of ingredients that she wouldn't know how to use up.

And June on Did I Just Feed You is all about kids in the kitchen. Not just cooking with kids,

although there's some of that, but we're going to explore flavors with them.

We're going to think about pulling them into other aspects of kitchen and food life beyond cooking, too.

Yeah. So it was like we started this conversation, we're thinking about kids in the kitchen,

and then we got this chance to interview New York Times food reporter Priya Krishna about her new book,

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