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La salud mental es un problema apremiante en el mundo de la cocina, una industria conocida por el ambiente de alto estrés y presión. Hablamos con una chef que enfrenta este asunto de manera muy personal. La Chef Jezabel Careaga es la fundadora de Fuerza for Humans, donde ofrece recursos de salud mental, tanto como espacios para diálogo y comunidad, para trabajadores de hostelería. También es diseñadora, emprendedora, y fundadora de Jezabel’s Café, una panadería en Philadelphia que se especializa en la cocina del noroeste de Argentina. ¡Esperamos visitarla en cuanto sea posible!

Mental health is a pressing problem in the world of food, an industry known for its stressful and high-pressure environments. We speak with a chef who is tackling this issue in a very personal way. Chef Jezabel Careaga is the founder of the organization Fuerza for Humans, which offers mental health resources, spaces for dialogue, and community for hospitality workers. She’s also a designer, an entrepreneur, and founder of Jezabel’s Café, a bakery in Philadelphia that specializes in Northwestern Argentinian cuisine. We hope to visit in person as soon as it’s possible again!

Photo Courtesy ofJezabel's Cafe.

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“Ya No Estoy Aquí” es la película que México eligió como su representación a los premios Oscar de La Academia. El director es Fernando Frías, un buen amigo de Buenlimón Radio. La peli muestra la contra cultura de los kolombianos en Monterrey. Ha sido un gran placer para nosotros hablar con Fernando sobre su proceso.

"Ya No Estoy Aquí” – “I’m No Longer Here” – is the film chosen to represent Mexico in the Oscars this year. The director is Fernando Frías, a good friend of Buenlimón Radio. The film explores the counter-culture of the "Kolombianos" in Monterrey. It was a great pleasure for us to speak with Fernando this week about his process.

Photo Courtesy of Fernando Frías

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Irwin Sánchez es un chef y educador de orígen indígena perteneciente a los nahuas en México. Lleva muchos años en Nueva York enseñando los rituales de su comida y de su idioma natal. La pandemia acabó con parte de su familia en México y con su trabajo en Nueva York. Diego y Mariana lo visitan en su nuevo restaurante pop up en Queens, NY. El restaurante se llama Tlaxcal Kitchen, localizado en Jackson Heights y ahí Irwin incorpora la espiritualidad en su cocina, tanto como los ingredientes y técnicas tradicionales nahuas, como su lucha contra la discriminación social y cultural que enfrenta la gente indígena en México.

Irwin Sánchez is a chef and educator of Nahua origin, one of the indigenous groups of Mexico. He's spent many years in New York teaching the traditions of his food and native language. During the pandemic, he's lost members of his family in Mexico, as well as his work in New York. Diego and Mariana visit him at his new pop-up restaurant, Tlaxcal Kitchen, in Queens. Here, Irwin incorporates Nahua spirituality and traditional ingredients and techniques into his cooking, as well as his resistance to the social and cultural discrimination that indigenous people face in Mexico and the United States.

Tlaxcal Kitchen c/o Cevicheria El Rey
85-16 Roosevelt Ave
Jackson Heights, NY

Producido por Anna Oakes

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As some parts of the U.S. are re opening in the Covid world, Mariana and Diego's homecountry, Colombia, is still under strict quarantine. One of the largest in the world! Their friend and musician Juan Andrés Ospina worte a song about this never ending sheltered life. A song that went viral. Just like his first hit about how Spanish language oddly changes across different regions of the continent. Turn the volume up, enjoy the good tunes and celebrate Hispanic Heritage month with us!

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The accomplished California chef Andrés Pantoja is giving 2,000 free meals a night to the same Boys and Girls Club he grew up with. Pantoja traded his job preparing food for big tech entrepreneurs in Palo Alto for this heart warming endeavour. Mariana and Diego had the pleasure of asking him about it... in Spanglish!

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As the coronavirus pandemic swept around the world, multiple reports emerged about infected people losing their sense of taste and smell. And since these two senses are crucial for people in the food world, Mariana and Diego reached out to a few of their colleagues and friends in the New York's food industry to know how it feels, what exactly happens. They also talk to a good friend that has lived without both senses for more than two years!

Photo Courtesy of Mariana Velasquez

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Access to food, food security and farmers' livelihoods have been a critical matter for many people across the world, but especially during the quarantine caused by COVID-19. In the United States, large agricultural organizations are dumping cheese, milk and meat, mainly due to an unprecedented lack of demand from restaurants.

Mariana and Diego visit the now socially-distanced Union Square Market to find out how this is affecting New York State's local farmers that bring natural, organic food to Manhattan every week.

This is the first episode of a season entirely produced from home during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Photo by Mariana Velasquez

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Almost all of the foie gras produced in the United States comes from two duck farms in Sullivan County, where about 400 workers, mostly immigrants from Mexico and Central America, rely on it for their livelihood. Inspired by a New York Times Article, Diego and Mariana headed upstate to hear the stories of these workers whose lives are about to change.

Photo courtesy of Diego Patiño.

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An on site episode deep in the kitchen of the legendary Gotham Bar and Grill in Mahattan. The exciting evolution of this classic institution with a new head chef- Chilean Born Victoria Blamey who has a mostly female kitchen. Diego and Mariana spoke with them.

Instagram handles - @victoriablamey @j.essamine @nadiaivonlagos @melemilly @maggie_paradis

Photo Courtesy of Evan Sung.

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Its sweet, tempting and slow melting... Chocolate is the world’s favourite treat and Mariana and Diego explore it in this episode with the couple behind a new space dedicated to the perfection of chocolate making. A Korean food stylist (just like Mariana) and her other half, a Dominican chocolatier, united in love, are creating Vesta, a marvelous place in Montclair, NJ tempting enough for all. Chocolate lovers, unite!

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