Cultural appropriation in breakfast burritos

Hosted by Evan Kleiman Jul. 29, 2017 Food & Drink

If you’re white and you want to make food from a culture that is not your own, you might want to think twice. Gustavo Arellano joins us to discuss what happened when Kali Wilgus and Liz Connelly started doing just that in Portland, Oregon.

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Host:

Evan Kleiman

Producers:

Laryl Garcia, Abbie Fentress Swanson, Camellia Tse, Joseph Stone

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