"Sideways" turns 20, Iranian wine, Arizona water

Good Food

KCRW

Society & Culture

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

On the 20th anniversary of Sideways, Hitching Post owner Frank Ostini reflects on changes in the Santa Ynez Valley. Filmmaker Jason Wise joins Vahe Keushguerian in a conversation about making wine from Iranian grapes for the first time in half a century. Maanvi Singh reports on corporations buying up water rights, often in drought-stricken areas, and selling them to other communities, sometimes hundreds of miles away. Growing up in Northern California with a Kenyan mother and Nigerian father, Kiano Moju celebrates her family's AfriCali cuisine. At the farmers market, chef Dan Barber visits with Alex Weiser who is growing a new allium — garleek.

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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Evan Klimin and you're listening to good food.
0:05.5	Do not sabotage me. If you want to be a fucking lightweight,
0:08.5	then that's your call, but do not sabotage me.
0:10.9	Oh, eye, I, Captain, you got it.
0:13.0	And if they want to drink Merleau, we're drinking Merleau.
0:15.0	No, if anybody orders Merleau, I'm leaving.
0:16.8	I am not drinking any fucking Merleau.
0:19.0	Okay, okay, relax, Miles.
0:22.0	Jesus, no more low.
0:24.0	Did you bring your Xanax?
0:27.0	Sideways, a buddy road trip movie with notes of sophistication and self-doubt
0:32.0	celebrates its 20th anniversary. notes of
0:33.4	sophistication and self-doubt celebrate its 20th anniversary this year.
0:35.7	The characters of Miles and Jack
0:38.3	tool around the Santinez Valley and a wine-colored sob
0:41.7	before Jack's character played by Thomas Hayden Church
0:45.2	is slated to get married. On this week's in the weeds, Frank O'Stini, the
0:51.2	chef and owner behind the hitching post too where much of the film takes place,
0:55.6	looks back at the two decades of this legendary California wine region,
1:00.0	and how Director Alexander Payne's movie changed everything.
1:05.0	I'm Frank Austini.
1:06.2	I'm Chef Weinmaker of the Hitching Post restaurant
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