It finally happened! We finally get to talk about everyone’s favorite party/potluck food: lumpia!! This episode we’re joined by Eleanor Mooney, co-founder of New York-based Verdant Lingerie and hapa Filipina.

We talk to Eleanor about growing up watching the titas roll lumpia at parties, each one having a slightly different recipe, and how growing up around this community of women shaped her career in service and lingerie.

Plus we talk about when it’s okay to be slightly illegal in job interviews, looking exactly like a parent but still somehow not enough, and her sister’s long con that somehow worked on us and will have her ruling us all.

In this live episode recorded at the Asian Art Museum on Bruce Lee Day, we talk with author Jeff Chang about his tremendous new book Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America.

Just ahead of what would’ve been Bruce’s 85th birthday (which is today!), we talk about his impact on Asian American representation in media, what he meant to generations of fans, and the intertwined rise of the AAPI identity that Jeff so beautifully weaves throughout the book. True to form, Freesia gushes, but this really is one of the best books she’s read in a very, very long time. We really cannot say enough good things about it.

Plus, we talk about one of Jeff’s childhood comfort dishes, which just so happens to be a Hawaiian version of our childhood comfort dish, his experience growing up in Hawaii, and the culture shock of leaving the island for California.

Big thanks to the Asian Art Museum for helping to make this happen and for a great book talk earlier in the day.

Whether you’re interested in Bruce Lee or the Asian American movement and identity, we can’t recommend this book enough.

We’re back with another live episode. This time we’re talking with Irene Yoo about her new cookbook Soju Party, a gorgeous collection of cocktail and food recipes that is blueprint for many a fun and delicious night.

Irene takes us through an epic night of drinking with her cousins in Seoul, gives us (mostly Freesia) tips on how to participate and keep up/bow out as an alcohol light-weight, and gives us the lowdown on both drinking etiquette and drinking games.

Plus we talk about Irene’s experience growing up with soju as an essential part of family gatherings and traditions, learning to cook for herself from the Food Network, and the difference between developing food and cocktail recipes in an extremely truncated timeline.

Pick up Soju Party wherever you get your books and plan your own epic night of feasting.