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Ube Industrial Complex
Ube Industrial Complex is a light-hearted, food-motivated show that explores culinary scenes and other pop cultural appetites from Filipinx American and Canadian points-of-view. Co-hosted across three cities by writers, scholars and food enthusiasts, Karen Tongson (L.A.), Adrian De Leon (NY), and James Zarsadiaz (SF), the show boasts both local perspectives, and a worldy sensibility across generations, migration routes, foodways, trends, tastes and desires.
Episodes
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Beyond the Veil
As Filipino American History Month draws to a close, we usher in Dia de los Muertos on November 1. Sadly, Adrian's mom, Joan De Leon, passed away from a long…
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"If everything is ube, then nothing is ube" - A Conversation with Top Chef Winner, Rhoda Magbitang
We are joined by Chef Rhoda Magbitang, the winner of Top Chef 23, who wowed the judges with her soulful, refined renditions of lugaw, tortang talong and…
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Everyone's a Critic
In episode 3, we welcome special guest Bettina Makalintal from Eater to talk about why food culture is so important to Filipinos in the diaspora. Moving beyond…
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Taste Back
In this episode, we each talk about our "Proustian madeleine" or the taste sensation that sends our memories flooding back, and sets us off "in search of…
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Purple
Welcome to Ube Industrial Complex, a food-motivated limited podcast series that explores culinary scenes and broader pop cultural appetites from a Filipino…