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    Good Food

    'Eat Like Walt'

    On Tuesday, July 17, Disneyland turns 63 years old. With dining options like Blue Bayou, the exclusive Club 33 , and a variety of food and wine festivals, Walt Disney’s vision of food as entertainment has truly come to life.

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    By Evan Kleiman • Jul 13, 2018 • 1 min read

    On Tuesday, July 17, Disneyland turns 63 years old. With dining options like Blue Bayou, the exclusive Club 33, and a variety of food and wine festivals, Walt Disney’s vision of food as entertainment has truly come to life. But how did Disney eat in his personal life? In her book, “Eat Like Walt,” Marcy Carriker Smothers takes us behind the scenes into Walt Disney’s personal food preferences and his ideas for “thematic feeding.”

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    Eddie Huang, Pixar's 'Bao,' and eating like Walt Disney
    1. 0:00Living in 'Huang's World'
    2. 12:20'Bao'
    3. 23:17'Eat Like Walt'You’re reading this
    4. 33:57Market Report: Pork
    5. 42:28'The New Spanish'
    6. 51:54Summer dineL.A. returns
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      Evan Kleiman

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      Nick Liao

      Managing Producer, Good Food

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      Rosalie Atkinson

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      Joseph Stone

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      CultureFood & Drink

    The full episode

    3 of 6
    Eddie Huang, Pixar's 'Bao,' and eating like Walt Disney
    1. 0:00Living in 'Huang's World'
    2. 12:20'Bao'
    3. 23:17'Eat Like Walt'You’re reading this
    4. 33:57Market Report: Pork
    5. 42:28'The New Spanish'
    6. 51:54Summer dineL.A. returns
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