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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Extra Spicy episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Extra Spicy for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Extra Spicy episode by adding your comments to the episode page.
Can Free Fridges Avoid “Poverty Porn”?
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08/17/20 • 44 min
Gabriela Alemán and Ashley Rahimi Syed, who’ve helped bring a fridge stocked with fresh food to the Mission, talk about protecting the dignity of those they serve, and mitigating the “performative” aspect of some of the giving.
Read a transcript of our conversation with Gabriela and Ashley, and send us your questions about food, life and everything you're obsessed with at sfchronicle.com/spicy. | Get full Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod
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Pickle Jar Time Machine
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06/22/20 • 36 min
Pickle profferer and master fermenter Kelly McVicker geeks out about pickles: how time is an essential ingredient, and how an increased interest in the craft during the coronavirus pandemic is a sign that people are rethinking the place of pickles in our food system. | Get full Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod
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The Pandemic Pivot: Restaurant to Grocery
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07/20/20 • 41 min
Anthony Strong, the chef and owner of San Francisco's Prairie, talks about his restaurant’s quick pivot to a general store at the onset of the pandemic. Hang on to the end to hear some nonsense about Hot Pot Panic, Soleil Ho's new favorite computer game made by a Bay Area local.
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How JustUs Kitchen Feeds the Movement
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07/13/20 • 37 min
Bay Area chef and community organizer Jocelyn Jackson is the founder of JustUs Kitchen, a project that provides healing food experiences for Black women and femmes. Jackson, also the co-founder of the People’s Kitchen Collective, talks about what it means to create liberated spaces, the ancient history of mutual aid, and how we can sustain the political moment. | Get full Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod
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Extra Spicy Season 2
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01/16/21 • 2 min
A new season of Extra Spicy is coming soon! Join hosts Soleil Ho and Justin Phillips as they attempt to decipher the bizarro happenings of the food world alongside a mix of fascinating folks. They dismantle diet culture and angry chefs, cover the restaurant apocalypse and pandemic pivots, and dish out advice you didn't know you needed. Extra Spicy will stimulate your mind and your appetite.
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05/23/22 • 32 min
At Starbucks locations across the country, workers are unionizing. Dozens of stores have joined the union, and many more are scheduled to vote soon. One of those is in Mill Valley, California, where high school junior Ella Clark is leading the efforts to organize. Ella joins host Soleil Ho to talk about holding Starbucks accountable to its values, then UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education chair Ken Jacobs explains why the wave of Starbucks unionization is spreading — and why it’s unlikely to end anytime soon.
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Extra Spicy Season 3 Is Coming Soon!
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02/21/22 • 0 min
Soleil Ho, podcast host and restaurant critic for The San Francisco Chronicle, is back with a fresh, new season of The Chronicle’s food and culture podcast, Extra Spicy. They’ll be diving into topics like the intersection of mental health and cooking, the dream of sustainable shrimp farming, how local food workers are unionizing their workplaces and what makes a great restaurant chair. Season 3 launches March 2022.
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04/19/21 • 35 min
Tipped workers, like servers and bartenders, can be paid as low as $2.13 per hour in some states. Soleil Ho and Justin Phillips trace the origin of America’s tipping culture back to slavery, and how minimum wage politics mostly impact Black and female livelihoods. Plus: how the fight to raise the federal pay floor goes beyond the restaurant industry.
Send us your questions about food, life and everything you’re obsessed with at sfchronicle.com/spicy. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod
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Introducing Fixing Our City
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06/10/22 • 1 min
New Chronicle podcast: Host Laura Wenus and producer Cintia Lopez are on a quest to find out why one of the wealthiest and best-educated cities in America, one where most people belong to the same political party and subscribe to the same basic values, has so many intractable problems. And more importantly: Can they be fixed? Join us as we find out, one San Francisco story at a time. Coming June 21 from the San Francisco Chronicle’s SFNext project. Follow Fixing Our City on your favorite app.
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Padma Lakshmi: Redefining “American Food”
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06/22/20 • 39 min
The writer and television personality talks about her new show, Taste the Nation. Lakshmi, an award-winning author who previously hosted “Top Chef,” talks about using her show to broaden the definition of “American food” — as an antidote to xenophobia and ahistoric notions of who “Americans” are. | Get full Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod
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FAQ
How many episodes does Extra Spicy have?
Extra Spicy currently has 74 episodes available.
What topics does Extra Spicy cover?
The podcast is about Society & Culture, Podcasts, Arts and Food.
What is the most popular episode on Extra Spicy?
The episode title 'Three-Michelin-Starred: A Fine Dining Legacy, Burned Down' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Extra Spicy?
The average episode length on Extra Spicy is 33 minutes.
How often are episodes of Extra Spicy released?
Episodes of Extra Spicy are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Extra Spicy?
The first episode of Extra Spicy was released on Jun 5, 2020.
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