October 2, 2024: 200 debates about intersectional food

The Fabulous 413

What do kimchi tacos, loco moco, and currywurst all have in common?

They’re all delicious points of intersectionality, or you might call them "Third Culture Foods".

Today on the Fabulous 413, we’ll explore a new cookbook that highlights one of those communities that overlapped and developed its own cuisine in this fashion. Sabor Judio: the Jewish Mexican Cookbook is a new release from Restless Books and we’ll chat with co-Author Ilan Stavans about the tasty ways cultures can influence each other’s dishes, and the many recetas and stories he and his co-author Margaret E. Boyle gathered from members of "La comunidad". And taste a couple of the recipes from it that we made!

Plus we got to hang out with all the cool kids in Amherst for the VP debate last night. We’ll go through some of the most memorable folx and moments from the battle of the second in commands, and how the people of Amherst watching with us reacted to them.

And our local dictionary in Springfield is just a little bit bigger now, with 200 new words being added to it’s lexicographical girth this week. Resident wordster Emily Brewster, senior editor at Merriam Webster takes us on a tour through what additions now get a chance to grace its pages, paper and digital.