Podcast appearances and mentions of myles karp

Myles Karp once ate a mango so good it made him cry. An American journalist and consultant now based in Costa Rica, Karp talks about roaming the Central American jungles in search of a superior banana, and the many other exotic fruits that one is unlikely to find in your local supermarket. https://www.myleskarp.com/

There are around 300,000 Thai Americans but almost 5,000 Thai restaurants in the United States. To understand how Thai restaurants became so ubiquitous in the US, we dive into the history of how Thai cuisine arrived in the US before Thai immigrants started to arrive in large numbers, and how Thai Americans capitalized on the popularity of their food to find their niche in the US economy. I'm joined in this episode by Associate Professor of Asian and Asian American Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Dr. Mark Padoongpatt, author of Flavors of Empire: Food and the Making of Thai America. Our theme song is Frogs Legs Rag, composed by James Scott and performed by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons. Image Credit: “Thai chef Salapirom Phanita, from Pattaya Marriot hotel catering, prepares food in the forward-deployed amphibious dock landing ship USS Tortuga's (LSD 46) galley during a cooking exchange with U.S. Navy chefs as a part of exercise Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Thailand 2013. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Amanda S. Kitchner/Released).” Please consider a donation to the Thai Community Development Center. Additional Sources: “How Thai food took over America,” by Francis Lam, The Splendid Table, January 10, 2019. “The Surprising Reason that There Are So Many Thai Restaurants in America,” by Myles Karp, Vice, March 29, 2018. “Jet Tila on the Evolution of Thai Food in America,” by Gowri Chandra, Food and Wine, April 27, 2018. “Thai Food, Constructed and Deconstructed,” by Raegen Pietrucha, UNLV News Center, September 19, 2019. “The Decades-Long Evolution of Thai Cuisine in Los Angeles,” by Jean Trinhm KCET, December 12, 2018. “Thai Cusine's Right Time and Place,” by Mimi Sheraton, New York Times, May 20, 1981. “Pad Thai Diplomacy,” by Savannah Wallace, Medium, August 9, 2020. “You Call This Thai Food? The Robotic Taster Will Be the Judge,” by Thomas Fuller, New York Times, September 28, 2014. “The Oddly Autocratic Roots of Pad Thai,” by Alex Mayyasi, Atlas Obscura, November 7, 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part two of our genre-specific series. LUMINA’s Poetry Editor, Anna Binkovitz, and sam sax, discuss poetry craft, the intersections of community and creation, and what it means to embody the heritage of Judaism while eschewing a Zionist framework. Also discussed: sweaty basements, tiaras, and pigs.  Theme music by Myles Karp. 

In our curated poetry content episode, Assistant Poetry Editor Brynn Bogert invites three Sarah Lawrence graduate poets to share current work and to discuss the various facets of their pieces in casual post-reading interviews. We hear from Shuang Ang, Emma Stewart, and Lucy Walker. Throughout these poems, a sense of permeability and duality weaves itself into three very different narratives. These poems explore borderlands; thresholds; tent flaps, and the impermanence of petals and pearls. They travel the spaces between what is true, what is allowed, and what is lurking just beneath or behind what our eyes can register. Theme music for the podcast was composed by musical artist and producer, Myles Karp.

Firefly is excited to launch our spring genre-specific series. This episode is brought to you by Casey Haymes, LUMINA’s Nonfiction Editor. Last month, Casey brought to the studio three Sarah Lawrence MFA writers with distinct voices, whose pieces all happen to orbit a unifying question: what does it mean to be at home? While these essays explore a range of styles and themes, each one engages in contemplation of what it means to be at home; whether that home is defined as a body, a city, a society, or a religion. Through their musings, we begin to get a sense for what it means inhabit the spaces where we find ourselves, and to find ourselves changed by that space. This episode features the work of Brynn Bogert, Amanda Claire Buckley, and Vanessa Friedman. Theme music for the podcast was composed by musical artist and producer, Myles Karp. 

Talking craft with Fred Lit Yu and his thoughts on the genre of Wu Xia, martial arts, Yin Yang blades, and baseball strategy. Lit Yu writes fiction in the Asian Fantasy Martial Arts epic genre. He is a filmmaker, chef, Feng Shui practitioner, martial artist, and for over a decade was a risk manager in a bank. He graduated from New York University majoring in film and television, and has directed a number of documentaries and short films while working in the financial services industry. Yu’s first publication, The Legend of Snow Wolf, was published by China Books in 2012, followed by a cookbook in 2017, Haute Tea Cuisine, representing his innovations in extracting artisan teas in French sauces. A martial arts instructional book on his knife system, Yin Yang Blades, was released in May 2018. Yu is currently a full-time writer and lives in New York City. Website: https://www.flityu.com Theme music for the podcast was composed by musical artist, producer, and songwriter Myles Karp.  

Today, in this episode, we’re casting a light to voices across worlds, and to all the worlds in between. We have poetry and prose which capture the places created by the voices inside of the different lives we lead: the world of childhood perspective in the face of a catastrophic flood, featuring Jack Human. The world we hold inside ourselves in the face of family and community, and the places we take refuge and rebellion – including the fridge. We also have worlds inside walls, and the creatures that wiggle through them. And, finally, we have a question about this world: who do we write stories for? A feminist perspective on the MFA workshop. Contributors include: “The Holy Flood” by Vanessa Stone. “Ode to Joy,” “No,” “Matriphagy” by Shu Yang “In Search for Audience: Can a South-Asian Writer Speak To The World?” by Meher Manda “Nobody said anything about the pig” by Rhea DhanBhoora Theme music composed by musical artist and producer, Myles Karp.

This Wednesday we're taking a little break and introducing you to our friends, See Something Say Something! It's a podcast about being Muslim in America hosted by Ahmed Ali Akbar. This is the second episode in a three-part series called Meat, Mangoes, and Memory. In this episode, they explore why some people are willing to pay nearly $9 a pop for a taste of home. They talk to food writer Myles Karp about the complications Indian mangos have faced entering the US, from political bans to regulation to the plain old ravages of time and rot. Then, Ahmed calls up his cousin Medeeha who spent her summer in New Jersey as the middle woman for an international mango trade organized on WhatsApp. Plus: listeners and friends of the show share their relationship to the fruit.Listen to the rest of the series here! Read Myles' works on mangoes here.Follow Ahmed @radbrowndadsFollow the show on Twitter (@seesomething), Facebook (facebook.com/seesomethingpodcast), and Instagram (instagram.com/buzzfeedseesomething).Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mangoes are one of the world’s most treasured fruit, but for Indian and Pakistani immigrants, it’s nearly impossible to get the beloved Alphonso and Chaunsa varietals in America. In this episode, we explore why some people are willing to pay nearly $9 a pop for a taste of home. We talk to food writer Myles Karp about the complications Indian mangos have faced entering the US, from political bans to regulation to the plain old ravages of time and rot. Then, Ahmed calls up his cousin Medeeha who spent her summer in New Jersey as the middle woman for an international mango trade organized on WhatsApp. Plus: listeners and friends of the show share their relationship to the fruit. Read Myles' works on mangoes here: https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/gyw4zb/alphonso-best-mangoes-india-us Follow Ahmed @radbrowndads Follow the show on Twitter (@seesomething), Facebook (facebook.com/seesomethingpodcast), and Instagram (instagram.com/buzzfeedseesomething). Email us at saysomething@buzzfeed.com Our music is by The Kominas, follow them @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices