Before we end 2023, we’re sharing a special bonus episode for you from our friends at Gravy, a narrative podcast produced by Southern Foodways Alliance and distributed by APT Podcast Studios. Named the “Publication of the Year” by the James Beard Foundation, the series showcases a South that is constantly evolving, using food as a means to dig into lesser-known corners of the region, to complicate stereotypes, to document new dynamics, and to give voice to the unsung folk who grow, cook, and serve our daily meals.
In the bonus episode we’re sharing, “Filipino Balikbayan is Homecoming in a Box,” Gravy explores the histories, politics, and cultures underlying the balikbayan box—a large box filled with everything from tubes of toothpaste to cassette tapes to cans of Spam—that Filipino immigrants in the United States customarily send home to family in the Philippines. There is an entire industry in Filipino communities across the United States dedicated to the logistics of shipping these boxes, which have been popular since the Philippines established the Balikbayan Program in the 1970s. We hope you enjoy it!
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Episode 170 – Celebrating Philippine Independence Day
Episode 169 – Love letters to Lola | TFAL talks CRESCENCIANA: A Memoir In Words And Illustrations with Kenneth Tan
Episode 168 – TFAL Goes to Chicago: Entrepreneurship, NFTs, and Sneakers with Francis Almeda and Jeff Masangcay
Episode 167 – TFAL Goes to Chicago: Arts, Politics, and Community with Ginger Leopoldo and Mark Calaguas
Episode 166 – TFAL Goes to Chicago: Traveling to Chi-Town
Episode 165 – The 2022 Philippine Presidential Election
Episode 164 – Belligerence Has Arrived! TFAL gets real with Melissa Beck from Real World NOLA Homecoming
Episode 163 – Who’s le beouf? TFAL talks food criticism with Annabelle Tometich
Episode 162 – Estatue, Filipino America? A Memorial-able Discussion about Filipino American Monuments
Episode 161 – The Complicated History of SPAM with Gabrielle Berbey
Episode 160: TFAL talks The Girl Who Sees with Pattie Umali
Episode 159 – The Secret’s Out: Secretly Filipino
Episode 158 – Baybayin atbp. with Kristian Kabuay
Episode 157 – A Few of TFAL’s Favorite Things – Small Businesses to Support this Holiday Season
Episode 156 – Freethought, Faith, and Politics with Filipino Freethinkers
Episode 155 – Filipi-mnemonics: Remembering the Tagalog with Geoffrey Ocampo
Episode 154 – Manifest Technique: Talking Filipino Americans and Hip Hop with Mark Villegas (Social Distance Series)
Episode 153 – Kulintang Kultura: A Conversation with Theo Gonzalves and Mary Talusan Lacanlale
Episode 152 – A Life Well Designed: The Legacy of Pinky Santos and the Influence of Filipino Art on the Lived Environment
Episode 151 – Filipino American Heritage…er History Month
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