Voicemails: What Filipino Food Means

07/25/18 • 8 min

Does this count as a bonus episode? This is a re-airing of a short episode I produced a while back for Racist Sandwich, a podcast about food, race, class, and gender.

I promise this show won't be just about food, but I'd to give you all an idea of what kinds of formats I'm interested in. Yes, you'll hear one-on-one interviews, but I'd also love to experiment with your stories and your voices. This is fairly short, but making this episode was special to me.

Music by Blue Dot Sessions. Logo by Niccolo Pizarro. Get in touch on Twitter, or send an email to [email protected].

(Photo credit: Halil Marx07 / CC BY 3.0)

Does this count as a bonus episode? This is a re-airing of a short episode I produced a while back for Racist Sandwich, a podcast about food, race, class, and gender.

Music by Blue Dot Sessions. Logo by Niccolo Pizarro. Get in touch on Twitter, or send an email to [email protected].

(Photo credit: Halil Marx07 / CC BY 3.0)

Previous Episode

It's Beautiful To Be Us (with Sarahlynn Pablo)

On Balikbayan's first(!) episode, we're joined by Sarahlynn Pablo, a writer and poet in Chicago who co-founded Filipino Kitchen and ran a Filipino food and arts festival in Chicago called Kultura for four years.

We talk about growing up between the Chicago suburbs and the Philippines, what it was like to start Filipino Kitchen, whether Filipino food really is unhealthy, and how a blog comment on her lugaw changed her life. Then, we go through a "Filipino Lightning Round" where we hash out critically important topics like karaoke, ube, and how good her Tagalog is.

Music by RV Mendoza and Blue Dot Sessions. Logo by Niccolo Pizarro.

Follow the show on Twitter @balikbayanshow, and send me an email at [email protected]. Thanks for listening!

Next Episode

Tell Me About Your Nickname

I'd like to produce an episode about nicknames! You can do that by either recording a voice memo and emailing it [email protected], or you can call me and leave a voicemail, at (971) 800-1389.

Tell me your formal name, where you're calling from, your nickname, and how you got that nickname. Bonus points for any other stories about your nickname that have stuck with you over the years.