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Evan Kleiman

Los Angeles, Santa Monica, United States
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  • Meat is left sizzling on the grill as ICE raids taqueros and street vendors in LA County

    1 week ago | kcrw.com | Evan Kleiman

    Over the last two weeks, as videos of ICE agents tackling people at bus stops or handcuffing fruit vendors on street corners spread across the internet, the food landscape in Los Angeles has been terrorized by fear. Families are too frightened to leave their house for groceries. Taqueros are scared to go to work. Restaurant and bakery owners are prepping employees on what to do if ICE shows up at their workplace. Los Angeles has always been a city of immigrants. We wear it like a badge of honor.

  • From St. Lucia to New Orleans: Nina Compton shares her chef's journey through recipes

    1 week ago | kcrw.com | Evan Kleiman

    An individual's culinary point of view can be focused or expansive depending on where their footsteps have taken them and how food weaves through their journey. Nina Compton's culinary curiosity led her to places outside her home island of St. Lucia but the award-winning chef used each move as a way to become more technically skilled while imbuing herself in the food cultures around her. She's the chef and co- owner of several New Orleans restaurants.

  • Hawa Hassan revisits her migration from Somalia as she visits war-torn countries

    1 week ago | kcrw.com | Evan Kleiman

    For those around the world displaced by war, food is a way to preserve culture and heritage. Hawa Hassan understands this as she was torn from her life in Mogadishu, Somalia and sent by her mother to live with family friends in Seattle. Hawa visited Good Food five years ago to discuss her earlier book, In Bibi's Kitchen, which features grandmothers from eight eastern African countries welcoming you into their kitchens.

  • Patrick Chandler Brown is reclaiming ancestral land and empowering other farmers

    1 week ago | kcrw.com | Evan Kleiman

    Patrick Chandler Brown is not your typical farmer. He operates Brown Family Farms in Henderson, North Carolina, near the Virginia border. He's been named the state's Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Patrick cultivates 200 acres of industrial hemp as well as vegetables, wheat, soybeans, corn, and hardwood, all on land where his great grandfather, Byron, an enslaved man, worked as a sharecropper once he was freed.

  • ICE raids on taqueros, Creole cooking, the food of displacement

    1 week ago | kcrw.com | Evan Kleiman

    Memo Torres reports on how immigration raids are impacting local food businesses. Hawa Hassan, who escaped civil war in Mogadishu, shares stories of displacement in eight other regions of the world. Nina Compton makes a case for New Orleans and the Caribbean sharing a similar "self of being." Journalist Christina Cooke visits Patrick Brown on his farm in North Carolina, where he is reclaiming his family's history and land.

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