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 130 – Dance Dance Revelations: Filipinos and Hip Hop Dance with J. Lorenzo Perillo (Social Distance Series)
Episode 129 – Digging up the Truth: The Celine Archive with Celine Parreñas Shimizu (Social Distance Series)
Episode 128 – A Stoner’s Parable: TFAL Talks “Call Out” Culture (Social Distance Series)
Episode 127: TFAL Live – Do The Hustle
Episode 126 – LINGUA FRANCA: A conversation with filmmaker Isabel Sandoval (Social Distance Series)
Episode 125 – When Nature Calls: TFAL Goes to the Great Outdoors (Social Distance Series)
Episode 124 – A Feminist’s Journey Through Pregnancy with Angela Garbes (Social Distance Series)
Episode 123 – Culture Shock: How Filipino Americans deal with Americana (Social Distance Series)
Episode 122 – Hold the Line: Standing Up for Press Freedom with Maria Ressa (Social Distance Series)
Episode 121 – Urban Gardening and Restorative Justice with Richard Garcia of Alma Backyard Farms (Social Distance Series)
Episode 120 – Fil Am Allyship in the Black Lives Matter Movement (Social Distance Series)
Episode 119 – The Social Distance Series: Mental Health in times of Quarantine with Alyssa Lia Mancao
Episode 118 – The Social Distance Series: Pilipino Graduations
Episode 117 – The Social Distance Series: Hilaw Pa 4.0
Episode 116 – The Social Distance Series: TFAL talks ECQ in Metro Manila with Isabelle Lacson
Episode 115 – The Social Distance Series: Pilipino Cultural Nights
Episode 114 – The Social Distance Series: Raising Multiracial Children with Farzana Nayani
Episode 113 – The Social Distance Series: Burlesque with Mizon Garde and Di’ Lovely
Episode 112 – The Social Distance Series: Live with Nurse Practitioner Therese Golingay Donnelly
Episode 111 – The Social Distance Series: Live with Eugene Cordero & Mitch Narito
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