When assimilation meets brown and proud, you get Pocha; two borderland mujeres digesting politics, pop culture, and everything in between while nursing a 90’s hangover.
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Pocha Playlist is a KDrama Podcast hosted by the Pocha Crew - Andy, Brandon & Jenny. Every Thursday we discuss what we watched that week, give our honest thoughts on episodes from the latest K-Dramas, then officially rank the dramas on our playlist. So grab a bottle of soju and your Pocha friends and help us decide what should stay on the Pocha Playlist. Connect with us! https://linktr.ee/pochaplaylist
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Welcome to Pochas So What. Un espacio created by pochas for our deported and returned community. Those of us que somos de aquí y de allá and that use our existence to disrupt fronteras. Leni and Maggie are the two Pochas behind Pochas, So What.
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A conversation about the undocumented experience
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All things UFO, criptozoology, paranormal, occult y mas from a person of color perspective
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Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith is the winner of The Guild of Food Writers' Best Broadcast or Podcast Award 2022, and was shortlisted for Fortnum and Mason Best Podcast 2022 and 2024. It's about all of life from climate change to culture and politics to people through the prism of food. It's for foodie book lovers who want to hear something more profound about the way we live, making the link between delicious food and the impact of food production on the land - through books. Hear how A- ...
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Episodio 59 - July 2024 - Silence, rules and shopping
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Las Pochas are breaking the silence on how silencing is breaking us. Plus they count down some of the rules of life and chat about freaky finds online in the Que Hay de Nuevo.By Borderland Pochas
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205. The Midnight Romance in Hagwon (15-16) / The Atypical Family (9-10)
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Welcome back to the Pocha Playlist! Review the finale of The Midnight Romance in Hagwon (15-16) @ 5:12 and we continue The Atypical Family (9-10) @ 29:57. Please join the Pocha Playlist discord and also leave us ratings and reviews on Apple Podcasts and let us know if you have any ideas for what you want as Pocha Playlist merch! 2024 Playlist: 1. L…
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This week, we’re off to Seoul with British-Korean writer, Su Scott. Su has lived in Britain longer than she lived in Korea where she grew up, and has raised her own daughter in London. But her latest book, Pocha tells the story of the country she left behind, her family and the food they shared, often in the pochas, the covered markets and food sta…
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Welcome back to the Pocha Playlist! We continue reviewing The Midnight Romance in Hagwon (13-14) @ 4:02 as well as The Atypical Family (7-8) @ 24:17. Please join the Pocha Playlist discord and also leave us ratings and reviews on Apple Podcasts and let us know if you have any ideas for what you want as Pocha Playlist merch! 2024 Playlist: 1. Lovely…
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Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall: How to Eat 30 Plants A Week
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This week, as the UK (and France) go to the polls, Gilly chats to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall about the best way to support the NHS, his latest book How to Eat 30 Plants a Week. Last time we met to talk about the River Cottage’s Good Comfort, his message was to swap out the less healthy ingredients for more, eating healthily not by taking stuff out…
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Chris Van Tulleken: Ultra Processed People
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This week in an extra episode in the run up to the UK General Election to remind everyone why we must get the next government to fix the food system, Gilly meets Chris Van Tulleken, TV, radio and infectious diseases doctor who catapulted the term ultra processed food into the public consciousness in 2023 with his book Ultra Processed People. Now ou…
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Bonus Content - Wiri Wiri - June 2024 - PTSD and the paranormal
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This month's wiri wiri is outside of the normal. So far in fact that it delves into the paranormal. Las Pochas stay at a haunted hotel and talk mental health, and of course ghosts.By Borderland Pochas
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203. The Midnight Romance in Hagwon (11-12) / The Atypical Family (5-6)
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Welcome back to the Pocha Playlist! We continue reviewing The Midnight Romance in Hagwon (11-12) @ 5:46 as well as The Atypical Family (5-6) @ 20:32. Please join the Pocha Playlist discord and also leave us ratings and reviews on Apple Podcasts and let us know if you have any ideas for what you want as Pocha Playlist merch! 2024 Playlist: 1. Lovely…
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Giulia Crouch: The Happiest Diet in the World
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This week, we’re with Giulia Crouch to look at the diet of the Blue Zones that will make us not only live long and healthy lives, but is the Happiest Diet in the World. A little known fact: the very first book Gilly wrote back in 1993 on the back of a Channel 4 series called Food File was The Mediterranean Health Diet: the delicious way to lose wei…
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202. The Midnight Romance in Hagwon (9-10) / The Atypical Family (3-4)
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Welcome back to the Pocha Playlist! We continue review The Midnight Romance in Hagwon (9-10) @ 5:38 and then we continue the new show The Atypical Family (3-4) @ 17:58. Please join the Pocha Playlist discord and also leave us ratings and reviews on Apple Podcasts and let us know if you have any ideas for what you want as Pocha Playlist merch! 2024 …
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This week, we’re with Irish chef, Anna Haugh to talk about her first cookbook, Cooking with Anna. Anna is a massive part of the story of British food culture, leaving Dublin as a young woman to cook in the steamiest kitchens in London – Shane Osborn’s Pied a Terre, Philip Howard’s The Square and Gordon Ramsay’s London House. But in 2019, she opened…
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Bonus Content - Wiri Wiri - Revisiting adulting
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Las Pochas revisit adulting in this "Best Of" wiri wiri. Freedom, responsibility, accountability... being an adult has some perks, but is overrated. Join in on the conversation!By Borderland Pochas
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201. The Midnight Romance in Hagwon (5-8) / The Atypical Family (1-2)
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Welcome back to the Pocha Playlist! We are back to reviewing our Kdramas this episode. We review The Midnight Romance in Hagwon (5-8) @ 5:11 and then we start the new show The Atypical Family (1-2) @ 24:59. Please join the Pocha Playlist discord and also leave us ratings and reviews on Apple Podcasts and let us know if you have any ideas for what y…
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This week, we’re talking to friend of the show, Mark Diacono about his latest book, Vegetables. This is a book packed with ideas about how to get more from food from the land, a journey through the seasons which Ottolenghi calls 'simple, soulful, seasonal.' Bee Wilson calls it 'joyful', and Julius Roberts says it's 'an inspiring veg bible'. But for…
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In this special extra episode on the morning after the Guild of Food Writers Awards 2024, we leaf through some of the best food writing of the year in four of the 16 categories to explore what judges Laura Nickoll, Lyndon Gee, Kalpna Woolf and Fliss Freeborn were looking for in their shortlists. Click here for the Awards brochure and the full set o…
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200. Listener Q&A / K-Drama Trope Tier List
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Welcome back to the Pocha Playlist! Welcome to our 200th episode! Since this is a special episode, instead of reviewing any of our shows, we decided to have 2 fun segments, we do the Listener Q&A @ 4:52 and the K-Drama Trope Tier List @ 37:03. Please join the Pocha Playlist discord and also leave us ratings and reviews on Apple Podcasts and let us …
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This week, we’ve been invited to a Chinese Banquet with the word on Chinese food, Fuchsia Dunlop. Her multi award winning book, Invitation to a Banquet is a huge and deep dive into Chinese life through the prism of food. After 30 years of writing about Chinese food culture, she has a seat at the table most of us can have no idea about. Click here t…
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Welcome back to the Pocha Playlist! This week we continue reviewing The Midnight Romance in Hagwon (3-4) @ 5:41 and then we review the final 4 episodes of Lovely Runner (13-16) and rank if @ 24:42. Please join the Pocha Playlist discord and also leave us ratings and reviews on Apple Podcasts and let us know if you have any ideas for what you want a…
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Bonus Content - May 2024 - Osos in the wild and getting called out
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It's the end of May and that means Las Pochas wiri wiri about life!!! Join Las Pochas on a journey into the wilderness to choose between bears and men and as they defend the latchkey generation.By Borderland Pochas
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This week, we’re off to the jungles of Colombia and... London with Modern Medicine Woman, Frankie Paz Her book Plant Feasts is about how to live in the concrete jungle or the madness of modern life with the wisdom of the ancients. It’s about slowing down and finding how to live – how to really live by connecting with friends, family and nature – ev…
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198. Lovely Runner (9-12) / The Midnight Romance in Hagwon (1-2)
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Welcome back to the Pocha Playlist! This week we pick up a new show The Midnight Romance in Hagwon (1-2) @ 3:50 and then we continue with another 4 episodes of Lovely Runner (9-12) @ 25:53. Please join the Pocha Playlist discord and also leave us ratings and reviews on Apple Podcasts and let us know if you have any ideas for what you want as Pocha …
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This week, we’re off on an Italian road trip along the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea with Amber Guinness and her latest book Italian Coastal. We first met Amber a couple of years ago on Cooking the Books when she told us about her book A House Party in Tuscany, the story of restoring and reclaiming her childhood home. This time, she takes us to some …
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Welcome back to the Pocha Playlist! This week we review the finale of The Midnight Studio (15-16) @ 2:25 and then we review another 4 episodes of Lovely Runner (5-8) @ 25:03. Please join the Pocha Playlist discord and also leave us ratings and reviews on Apple Podcasts and let us know if you have any ideas for what you want as Pocha Playlist merch!…
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This week, we’re off to Menorca on a bit of an Eat Pray Love story with New York Times journalist, Yasmin Fahr. Her latest book, Cook Simply, Live Fully is about the options in life. It’s about cooking consciously, taking time to think about what you really want to eat, and being a little kinder to yourself – and the planet. Following your nose, tu…
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Episodio 58 - May 2024 - Making trouble in paradise and making friends as an adult
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Las Pochas kick off a new season talking about colonizing in retirement and how a restaurant in Mexico reacted plus how do we make friends as an adult? The trials and tribulations of creating bonds later in life.By Borderland Pochas
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Welcome back to the Pocha Playlist! Thanks for everyone being patient, we took 1 week off for a NYC trip. This week we continue reviewing The Midnight Studio (11-14) @ 8:13 and then we start the new drama Lovely Runner (1-4) @ 29:30. Please join the Pocha Playlist discord and also leave us ratings and reviews on Apple Podcasts and let us know if yo…
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This week, Gilly catches up with the queen of Turkish cuisine, Ozlem Warren. We’ve met Ozlem already on Cooking the Books to talk about her 2020 book Ozlem’s Turkish Table, but this time she’s talking about the side of Turkish cuisine that perhaps we don’t know so well, the vegetables, the sebze, inspired by thousands of years of diverse food histo…
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In this extra, special episode, Gilly is with Angela Clutton, who, with Itamar Sulovitch from Honey and co and Leyla Kazim from the Food Programme, was one of the three judges of this year's Fortnum and Mason Awards. By the time you hear this, the glitz and glamour of these Oscars of the food world will be over for another year. The mass of talent …
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The Grief I Carried Home - Returning to Mexico on Advanced Parole
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This episode is about my return to Mexico on advanced parole after 27 years. Before returning I traveled to Portugal and France with the Cultural Leadership Fellowship! I share fun moments we shared as a cohort and give shout-outs to the undocu baddies who joined us on this journey. While returning to Mexico was the biggest blessing it also came wi…
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This week, Gilly is with award winning travel writer, Caroline Eden. Her Cold Kitchen in Edinburgh is where we find her comfort cooking up the recipes she remembers from her travels. Her memories take us on the Trans Siberian Railway, through the dark back streets of a winter in Istanbul and the political chaos of a coup in Kyrgyzstan, and remind u…
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Welcome back to the Pocha Playlist! This week we continue reviewing The Midnight Studio (9-10) @ 7:04 and then we finish reviewing Parasyte: The Grey (4-6) @ 26:30. Please join the Pocha Playlist discord and also leave us ratings and reviews on Apple Podcasts and let us know if you have any ideas for what you want as Pocha Playlist merch! 2024 Play…
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This week, Gilly is with Georgina Hayden, our favourite Cypriot food writer to talk about Greekish, her everyday recipes with Greek roots. This is about the mash up of all that she is – North London, 2nd generation Greek Cypriot, who with full support from her yiayia, her grandmother, has cooked up a whole story of her family life in the kitchen. G…
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Kevan Roberts: The School of Artisan Food
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This week, Gilly is off to stunning Welbeck country estate in the heart of Nottinghamshire to the School of Artisan Food to meet head baker, Kevan Roberts. His book Baking Sourdough takes us on a sensory journey to the roots of traditional bread making, and as the School prepares for this years’ summer school courses, Gilly finds out why sour dough…
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194. The Midnight Studio (7-8) / Parasyte: The Grey (1-3)
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Welcome back to the Pocha Playlist! This week we continue reviewing The Midnight Studio (7-8) @ 5:03 and then we start reviewing the new drama Parasyte: The Grey (1-3) @ 23:49. Please join the Pocha Playlist discord and also leave us ratings and reviews on Apple Podcasts and let us know if you have any ideas for what you want as Pocha Playlist merc…
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This week, Gilly is with Nicola Lamb, one of the nominees of this year’s Jane Grigson Trust Award for best debut food writer. Her book Sift is an extraordinarily accomplished first book by a pastry chef trained in London and New York by the best - Ottolenghi, Dominique Ansel and Little Bread Pedlar. Her Substack, Kitchen Projects was praised as an …
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193. The Midnight Studio (5-6) / Wedding Impossible (9-12)
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Welcome back to the Pocha Playlist! This week we continue reviewing The Midnight Studio (5-6) @ 9:25 and then we finish reviewing Wedding Impossible (9-12) and then rank it @ 25:20. Please join the Pocha Playlist discord and also leave us ratings and reviews on Apple Podcasts and let us know if you have any ideas for what you want as Pocha Playlist…
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This week, Gilly explores art, philosophy and food with third generation British-Chinese photographer and Instagram superstar, Michael Zee His Symmetry Breakfast account featured his photographs of symmetrical breakfasts every day for 10 years and has 667k followers. In his latest book Zao Fan, Breakfast of China, it's with his anthropological eye …
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192. The Midnight Studio (3-4) / Wedding Impossible (5-8)
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Welcome back to the Pocha Playlist! This week we continue reviewing The Midnight Studio (3-4) @ 15:30 and Wedding Impossible (5-8) @ 35:51. Please join the Pocha Playlist discord and also leave us ratings and reviews on Apple Podcasts and let us know if you have any ideas for what you want as Pocha Playlist merch! 2024 Playlist: 1. Dr. Slump 2. A S…
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