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Chef Susan Feniger shares her culinary journey and community initiatives with host Claudia Sandoval.

Chef Susan Feniger has spent more than four decades building one of the most beloved culinary partnerships in America: Border Grill, City Café, and a restaurant empire stretching from Las Vegas to the new Burbank Airport. But her food story starts much smaller — on a step stool in Toledo, Ohio, licking the fudge paddle while her mom worked her magic. Chef Claudia Sandoval has admired Susan's career for years, and in this episode, she asks about the moments that aren’t Googleable: the green file box holding three generations of handwritten recipes, the first restaurant with no stove and two hibachis in the parking lot, and the Velveeta creation that just might deserve a comeback. Together, they dig into what it means to feed a city when it needs it most: Feed Folks, the commissary kitchen serving thousands of meals a day to food-insecure Angelenos, the culinary program Susan championed at the Los Angeles LGBT Center, and the World Central Kitchen call that turned her team into first responders, during COVID and again during the LA wildfires. Because for Susan, food is the best communicator there is. And if you have a voice, it's your responsibility to use it. New episodes every…

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