45: Behind the Scenes with Sarah and Lukas

05/07/19 • 63 min

In a special episode to wind down Season 2, host Sarah Duignan and sound producer Lukas Wojcicki are doing a super fun behind the scenes episode! We put out a call for questions on social media last week, and tried to answer most of your questions about our process of starting the show, some of the learning curves and ways in which our own understandings of food have changed since we first launched the podcast in July 2018. We also highlight some of our personal favourite episodes, and drop some hints about what to expect in season 3!

AnthroDish will be on a break for May, with regular Season 3 interviews starting up again June 4th. Until then, we might have a couple of surprise mini-episodes coming your way!

Thanks for listening as always, and be sure to drop us a line on social media, we always love hearing from this wonderful food community!

AnthroDish will be on a break for May, with regular Season 3 interviews starting up again June 4th. Until then, we might have a couple of surprise mini-episodes coming your way!

Thanks for listening as always, and be sure to drop us a line on social media, we always love hearing from this wonderful food community!

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44: Latinx Navigations of Diet, Health, and Illness in Chicago with Dr. Lilian Milanes

My guest this week is Dr. Lilian Milanes, an assistant professor of Anthropology at William Paterson University in New Jersey. As a Floridian Cuban-American, she received her B.S. in anthropology from the University of Central Florida and earned her PhD in anthropology at the University of Kentucky. As a medical anthropologist, Dr. Milanes focuses on the various contexts of health inequities in the US, especially surrounding Latinx communities. Her dissertation research emphasized health narratives of Chicago Latinx in their experiences with diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol. As a product of various mentoring villages, she is passionate about supporting undergraduate research opportunities and community engaged research.

I was first introduced to Dr. Milanes work at the AAA meetings this past November in San Jose, and was completely struck by her research, as she was speaking on some of the difficult negotiations and dietary shifts experienced by Latinx communities with respect to chronic health conditions. We speak today on some of the themes she brought up in her AAA talk. We unpack how Latinx communities can get homogenized in health strategies and guidelines, and how communities and researchers are working to create more contextual and culturally specific dialogues to help improve access to healthcare. Dr. Milanes is someone I admire a lot, and it was so wonderful being able to speak with her and learn more about her work.

Check out the full episode in the player above, or on any major podcast platform!

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Humboldt Park Ethnographies/Reading Recommendations

Felix Padilla (1988) "Puerto Rican Chicago"
Gina Perez (2004) "The Near Northwest Side Story Migration, Displacement, and Puerto Rican Families”
Marilyn M. Thomas-Houston (2004) "'Stony the Road' to Change: Black Mississippians and the Culture of Social Relations"
Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas (2005) "National Performances: The Politics of Class, Race, and Space in Puerto Rican Chicago"
Merida M. Rua (2008) "A Grounded Identidad: Making New Lives in Chicago's Puerto Rican Neighborhoods"
Lilia Fernandez (2014)"Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago"
Jonathan Rosa (2019) "Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad"

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46: From Food Industry to Food Hero with K80 Jones

I am incredibly excited to kick start our THIRD season today, complete with a brand new theme song by Lukas Wojcicki!

SO with that all being said, let me introduce this week’s guest: K80 Jones of one of MY favourite shows, Food Heroes Podcast! K80 and I established a friendship over social media pretty early on when I started AnthroDish, and we’ve been each other’s cheerleaders ever since. It’s always incredibly cool to establish a connection with someone so far away and then have it turn into a real, tangible conversation around food, something we’re both very passionate about!

For those of you who do not know K80, she is an innovator and self-proclaimed food geek with over a decade of experience in the food industry. She created new product categories while working as a Food Technologist in the Organic and Natural food industry. Her concern for the future of food led to the creation of the Food Heroes Podcast.

Today on AnthroDish, we’re exploring K80’s passion for positive conversation around food systems and sustainability. We explore her past in the food industry and how that’s helped to fuel her show and the themes she tackles on it. We also have a really cool chat about what it’s like hosting and creating food podcasts, so if you’ve ever had questions for K80 or I about what it’s like creating these shows or some of our thought processes while we interview, stay tuned for that too! Many thanks to K80, it’s such a pleasure to connect with fellow podcasters around the topic of food, and I really enjoyed getting to know the woman behind the show more!

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