Episode list

Broken Bread

Transformation

Wed, May 15, 2019
Roy visits Homeboy Industries a non-profit that helps ex-felons and Dough Girl, a pizza shop in L.A. dedicated to helping young troubled teens.
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Access

Wed, May 22, 2019
Roy meets the individuals bringing healthy and affordable food options into South L.A. communities that lack access to fresh food. Roy also visits with vegan grocer Olympia Auset, whose startup Süprmarkt delivers healthy and affordable food to the doorsteps of her community. Finally, Roy visits Earle's Hot Dogs, a vegetarian hot dog cart that has grown over its 30-year history into a multi-location brick and mortar shop, now a staple of a community hungry for healthier options such as Vegan and Vegetarian hot dogs.
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Future

Wed, May 29, 2019
Roy explores future culinary landscapes looking forward to a world affected by climate change. He spends an evening with chefs Henry Fischer and Anna Rose Hopkins from Hank and Bean who make a surprising plant-forward dinner featuring non-traditional protein sources like crickets and jellyfish. Roy also visits with Ethan Brown of Beyond Meat, a company pioneering the plant-based replacements for our favorite burgers and sausages, and Vegan Hooligans, a pop-up restaurant in eastside LA's Eagle Rock making classic American diner food out of entirely plant-based ingredients.
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Cannabis

Wed, Jun 05, 2019
Chef Roy Choi explores the world of edible cannabis and its role in current food culture today, as well as the history of cannabis and its progression to be legal in California.
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Waste

Wed, Jun 12, 2019
Roy explores the issue of food waste and ways different organizations are trying to help this problem.
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Watts

Wed, Jun 19, 2019
Chef Roy Choi explores both the culinary institutions and social structures of Watts, California.
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