Meant To Be Eaten

Meant to be Eaten looks at cross-cultural exchange in food and contemporary media. What determines “authenticity”? What, if anything, gets lost in translation when cooking foods from another’s culture? First-generation Chinese host, Coral Lee, looks at how American culture figures forth in less-than mainstream ways, in less-than expected places.

Recent Episodes
  • Gastromica's New Feed On HRN
    Jun 16, 2022 – 00:16:23
  • What to Read Now: Melissa Fuster's Caribeños at the Table
    Nov 28, 2021 – 00:39:14
  • Stephen Velasquez on Art and Activism
    Nov 21, 2021 – 00:33:17
  • Sucharita Kanjilal on Tomatoes and Taste-making in Indian Recipes
    Nov 14, 2021 – 00:34:29
  • Aya H. Kimura on Pickling: Histories of Tsukemono
    Nov 7, 2021 – 00:44:27
  • Benjamin Schrager on Risk, Regulation, and Raw Chicken in Japan
    Oct 31, 2021 – 00:36:45
  • Raúl Matta and Padma Panchapakesan on Dining Out: Changing Values of Good Taste
    Oct 24, 2021 – 00:37:28
  • Gastronomica: The Next Issue
    Jun 20, 2021 – 00:52:22
  • Chicken Politics
    Jun 13, 2021 – 00:40:37
  • When the Rainbows Bring the Crawfish
    Jun 8, 2021 – 00:35:22
  • Japanese Immigrants’ Pantry
    May 23, 2021 – 00:35:37
  • What to Read Now
    May 17, 2021 – 00:28:10
  • Race in American Food Television
    May 10, 2021 – 00:35:23
  • Well Rooted: A Gastronomica Interview with Chef Rob Connoley
    May 3, 2021 – 00:48:38
  • Ketchup as a Vegetable: Condiments and the Politics of School Lunch in Reagan’s America
    Feb 21, 2021 – 00:38:27
  • Lunch Interrupted! COVID-19 and Japan’s School Meals
    Feb 14, 2021 – 00:30:58
  • Rumor, Chinese Diets, and COVID-19: Questions and Answers about Chinese Food and Eating Habits
    Feb 7, 2021 – 00:33:03
  • Paqueteros and Paqueteras: Humanizing a Dehumanized Food System
    Jan 31, 2021 – 00:44:04
  • Feeding the City, Pandemic and Beyond
    Jan 24, 2021 – 00:41:16
  • Around the World in 50 Restaurants: The Curious Irony of Hyperlocal Food
    Jan 17, 2021 – 00:34:17
  • Decoding Miracle Food Cures for COVID-19
    Nov 29, 2020 – 00:27:17
  • Salmon on the Table
    Nov 22, 2020 – 00:41:33
  • The Food and COVID-19 NYC Archive: Mapping the Pandemic’s Effect on Food in Real Time
    Nov 15, 2020 – 00:34:33
  • Taste as Governor: Soy Sauce in Late Chosŏn and Colonial Korea
    Nov 8, 2020 – 00:33:48
  • Mexicans in Chicago
    Nov 1, 2020 – 00:28:29
  • Lockdown Destitution: Delhi, March 2020
    Oct 25, 2020 – 00:37:43
  • A Grocery Store Employee's Experience on the COVID Front Lines
    Sep 20, 2020 – 00:43:03
  • The Stockpile and the Letdown
    Sep 13, 2020 – 00:30:32
  • I Miss the Grocery Store the Most
    Aug 23, 2020 – 00:36:21
  • COVID-19 and Challenges of Urban Informality in Delhi, India
    Aug 16, 2020 – 00:32:52
  • South Africa under lockdown
    Aug 9, 2020 – 00:32:05
  • The Sickness Unto Hospitality
    Aug 2, 2020 – 00:33:10
  • Alicia Kennedy on the value of white acceptance
    Jun 28, 2020 – 00:35:16
  • Heifer International on how agriculture can provide a path out of poverty
    Jun 14, 2020 – 00:48:16
  • Andrew Genung on the importance of word choice and what we can learn from H.K.'s reopenings
    Jun 7, 2020 – 00:34:13
  • Esther Kim on Afro-Asian solidarity, Eddie Huang, and how a fistful of rice fuelled a democracy
    May 31, 2020 – 00:24:46
  • Lori Flores on farmworkers' rights amid and beyond the pandemic
    May 17, 2020 – 00:40:02
  • Julia Bainbridge and Malcolm Harris on the antidote to loneliness
    May 10, 2020 – 00:43:23
  • Chhaya Kolavalli on why the local food movement is so white
    Apr 5, 2020 – 00:40:00
  • Eric Rath on what ancient sushi forms can teach us about sustainability
    Mar 29, 2020 – 00:36:45
  • Azri Amram on the Jewish-Palestinian conflict, and food tourism as a bridge
    Mar 22, 2020 – 00:47:26
  • Rose Wellman on the popularity of Jell-O in Tehran, and its challenge to Islamic piety and Iranian citizenship
    Mar 15, 2020 – 00:36:30
  • Krishnendu Ray on street food—mobility and diversity out in the open
    Mar 8, 2020 – 00:39:49
  • Laurie Bertram on Iceland's most reluctantly defended tradition
    Mar 1, 2020 – 00:39:41
  • Rebecca de Souza on why food pantries fail to solve hunger
    Feb 23, 2020 – 00:35:19
  • Jeff Abella on fostering a sustainble agroeconomy in Cameroon
    Feb 9, 2020 – 00:36:44
  • Carol Pak on building America's first craft makgeolli company
    Feb 2, 2020 – 00:42:20
  • Amy Trubek on how restaurant culture needs to change
    Jan 19, 2020 – 00:41:15
  • Daniel Bender on saving food... from what?
    Dec 1, 2019 – 00:38:18
  • Amanda Hesser on food media's effects on "taste"
    Nov 17, 2019 – 00:43:34
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