Shin Ramyun with cheese. Photo credit: Quincy Surasmith
This is the second part of our comfort food episode. In the previous episode, we focused on the ways food traditions get passed down through families, communities, and cookbooks, and the way they adapt over time. Today, we look at how simple foods, convenience foods, and even fast food restaurants can become part of our cherished memories and culture.
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indo mie, indo you zine by Amy Wibowo. Art from BubbleSort
Learn more Amy Wibowo’s work at BubbleSort! Her zine, indo mie, indo you can be found on her site.
Art by Shing Yin Khor for Catapult
Read Noah Cho’s piece I’ll Fight Anyone Who Says You Shouldn’t Put Cheese on Your Ramyun on his column at Catapult.
And the Roy Choi recipe Noah referenced in the episode can be found on The New York Times.
Art from Foodbeast
You can read Virali Dave’s piece Why Do Indian Americans Love Taco Bell? on Foodbeast.
what's your cultural background, and what is the pinnacle of comfort food for you?
— Soleil Ho (@hooleil) October 7, 2020Check out Soleil Ho’s twitter thread on comfort food to see all the responses she got. You can find Soleil Ho’s current writing on The San Francisco Chronicle.
Music from this episode included:
Alice Tong - Home to Me
The Blazing Rays of the Sun - Closer. You can find the artists’ current music with the band Fevertalk.
Das Racist - Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell
Chris Iijima, Nobuko Miyamoto, and Charlie Chin - Imperialism is Just Another Word For Hunger
023 - Changing Places, New Spaces (from Mid Pacific)
Books & Boba - from the Potluck Podcast Collective
Asians in Baseball - from the Potluck Podcast Collective
022 - Whose Chinatown? (from A Better Life?)
021 - I Want To Stay Here, Just Not Forever (from A Better Life?)
020 - Searching For Solace (from A Better Life?)
019 - Country Music for a Baan Nok Boy
018 - Fifth Anniversary
017 - Until it Happened To Us
015 - Comfort Food, part 1
014 - Kala Bagai
013 - That's Just The Way The Ball Bounces
012 - Letters for Black Lives
011 - Helpers in the Time of Coronavirus
010 - What We Inherit: Marie Kondo and the Security of Stuff
009 - Facial Hair
008 - Dawn Mabalon Is In The Heart
007 - Claudia Kishi
006 - Filipino American Podcasts
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