LA's Street Food History, the Hangtown Fry, Corn Wars

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Writer Farley Elliott provides a history of LA's street food from tameleros to taco trucks and historian Libby O'Connell shares the curious backstory of the Hangtown Fry. Plus, we learn how Iowa's agri-tech corn fields became a target for foreign espionage.

Photo: Image from Farley Elliott's book Los Angeles Street Food: A History from Tamaleros to Taco Trucks. (Julia A. Reed) 

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Credits

Host:
Evan Kleiman

Producers:
Gillian Ferguson, Laryl Garcia