Kusuma Rao's guest appearances

Kusuma Rao

The Racist Sandwich Podcast

Ijeoma Oluo

Samin Nosrat

Yasmin Khan

Julia Turshen

Francis Lam

Hari Kondabolu

Virgie Tovar

Hannah Howard

Carmen Maria Machado

MALIK YAKINI

Devita Davison

Alexander Chee

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Amy Lam

Johnny Walker

OwlTail

Zahir and Soleil are back! In our intro, we discuss the food media's new obsession with poke, Anthony Bourdain in Vietnam, and chaat. After that, Portland chef Kusuma Rao of Ruchikala talks to us about the pop-up life, growing up Indian in Tucson, dudebros and the sexualization of food, and identifying as "miscellaneous brown.

E3: Pop-ups, Dudebros, and Indian-Mexican Fusion (with Kusuma Rao)