Potlikker and pork as metaphor, the story of 'LA Mexicano'

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Bill Esparza reveals the inspiration behind “LA Mexicano,” and Simran Sethi sends us a report and Korean makjeok recipe from Camp Bacon. John T. Edge explores race, identity and class through the lens of Southern food in “The Potlikker Papers,” and Jonathan Gold waxes poetic about Hainan chicken rice at Side Chick. Plus: The significance of the US win at the Bocuse d’Or, and Laura Avery shops for Genoese basil at the market.

Photo by Rhyne Cureton

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Host:

Evan Kleiman

Producers:

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