The House Specials Podcast
1) Episode 6: Kindness, with Nicole Chan - Part 2 (Season Finale)
This is part 2 of a 2 part series. In part 1, we spoke with Nicole on the eve of her pilgrimage to Brazil - where she was going to spend a couple of months with her grandparents, to learn more about h...Show More
2) Episode 5: Resilience, with Yewande Komolafe
Yewande Komolafe is a food writer, recipe developer, food stylist, and soon-to-be cookbook author. For many years, she lived in the US as an undocumented immigrant and had to mute parts of her Nigeria...Show More
3) Episode 4: Passion, with Chitra Agrawal, Leetal Arazi and Sana Javeri Kadri
In this special panel discussion episode, we speak with three of the most passionate and hard-working women in the food biz: Chitra Agrawal of Brooklyn Delhi, Leetal Arazi of NY SHUK and Sana Javeri K...Show More
Episode 4: Passion, with Chitra Agrawal, Leetal Arazi and Sana Javeri Kadri
38:09 | Jan 6th, 2021
4) Episode 3: Ingenuity, with Daisy Orlana
We speak with Daisy Orlana, owner of the New York based Indonesian food pop-up Sayang. She discusses with us about the loneliness of navigating the US as an adult immigrant, and how that led her back ...Show More
5) Episode 2: Patience, with Nancy Pappas
For Nancy Pappas, a Korean adoptee who grew up with a classic Midwestern American upbringing, her Asian identity was not something she had always embraced. Over the past few years, Nancy has reckoned ...Show More
6) Episode 1: Kindness, with Nicole Chan - Part I
This is part 1 of a 2 part series. We meet Nicole Chan as she embarks on a "research trip" of sorts, temporarily relocating from New York to Brazil to live with her grandparents—to witness their ...Show More
7) We're Back! Season 2 of The House Specials
Mark your calendars. We're back next week with a brand new season of The House Specials. Every episode this season will be dedicated to one topic: immigrants. Throughout this season you’ll hear from h...Show More
8) Ep. 6: Dedication, with Hetty McKinnon (Season Finale)
In this season finale, we follow host Hetty McKinnon as she ventures to Chinatown to pick up ingredients to cook an iconic dish from her childhood—e-fu noodles—for the Lunar New Year. While cooking th...Show More
9) Ep. 5: Longing, with Ariel Barnes
While wandering through the aisles of a local supermarket, Ariel Barnes revisits her childhood memories of school lunch and the politics of the food we eat as children. She remembers the neatly packed...Show More
10) Ep. 4: Belonging, with Jeremy Leung and Ryan Wilson
This episode is part 2 of a 2 part series on tomato and egg, a classic homestyle dish that has come to represent so much for children of Chinese immigrants. Modern day nomad, Jeremy Leung, attempts to...Show More