Seed saving, dosirak, school lunch, the art of the midday meal at work

Good Food

KCRW

Society & Culture

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Kristyn Leach and a network of farmers work to preserve cultural heritage through seed saving. LA Times restaurant critic Bill Addison visits Perilla in Echo Park for Korean banchan and dosirak. Photographer Lucy Schaeffer captures the nostalgia and personal memories behind school lunch. Peter Miller pens an ode to the midday meal. Politics professor Aaron Bobrow-Strain looks at the history of white bread in America and how it became so popular and industrialized. Wax Paper in LA pays homage to NPR personalities with their sandwiches, and co-owner Peter Lemos explains what goes into an “Ira Glass.”

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0:00.0	From K
0:02.0	KCRW, I'm Evan Kliman and you're listening to good food.
0:07.0	What can be more powerful than a seed? The energy force is undeniable.
0:17.0	Watching a tiny basil seed, for example, give forth that bouquet of sturdy stems with fragrant leaves seems almost like a magic trick.
0:26.0	But Kristen Leach is interested in seeds with other superpowers.
0:31.0	Through her work at Kohung in Sebastopol, California and through her work at Coeung in
0:32.5	Sebastopol, California, and through her organization
0:35.8	Second Generation seeds, she's showing that seeds
0:39.5	can preserve culture, connect generations,
0:42.0	and build community.
0:44.2	Hi, Kristen.
0:45.7	Hi, Evan, thank you for that very nice introduction.
0:49.0	Oh, we are, we're like seed crazed, we love seeds.
0:55.6	Can you tell us about second generation seeds,
0:58.6	what the mission is and what connects you
1:01.6	and the other growers who are part of this collective?
1:04.4	Yeah, of course. Second generation seeds were like a seed line.
1:10.0	We had started within Kitazawa Seed Company, which was like the oldest Asian-owned Seed Company in the US.
1:17.0	And when they sold their company, we branched off and started our own entity.
1:22.0	And so we have a network of farmers all of whom belong to either Asian or Arab
1:29.6	communities like Southwest Asian North North African communities,
1:33.0	and we're just all really excited to kind of like
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