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    Herbs, banchan, and renewed energy at the Santa Monica Farmers’ Market

    Market correspondent Gillian Ferguson speaks with Jihee Kim and her new project, Perilla , featuring Korean banchan and rice bowls. Kim describes how she is using komatsuna, a Japanese mustard spinach.

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    By Evan Kleiman • May 29, 2020 • 1 min read

    Market correspondent Gillian Ferguson speaks with Jihee Kim and her new project, Perilla, featuring Korean banchan and rice bowls. Kim describes how she is using komatsuna, a Japanese mustard spinach. Plus, Romeo Coleman from Coleman Family Farms in Carpinteria grows a bouquet of herbs, including multiple varieties of basil, Persian mint, marjoram, borage flowers, and lovage, which is similar to Italian parsley.

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    The full episode

    5 of 6
    Roxane Gay, plant-based Mexican, Indian spices
    1. 0:00Roxane Gay: ‘There’s so much stigma around food, no matter how you consume it as a fat person’
    2. 10:17Trojan horse way to veganism: Slowly sneak in the sweet potatoes
    3. 21:29Keeping plant-based Mexican food culturally relevant
    4. 32:17‘People think I’m Indiana Jones but it’s not that,’: Sana Javeri Kadri on sourcing spices
    5. 42:16Herbs, banchan, and renewed energy at the Santa Monica Farmers’ MarketYou’re reading this
    6. 50:10Filtering the air we breathe: masks made from coffee filters
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