Bahay: A Taste of Home

Bahay: A Taste of Home
Podcast Description
This podcast explores the deep connection between food and identity. Each episode, we cook a meaningful dish for our guest, tied to their culture, memories, and personal story. Through food, we uncover stories of belonging, identity, and the universal power of a shared meal to break down barriers to show the power of food: to connect, to break down barriers, and to tell a story about identity, tradition, and belonging.
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Explores the intricate relationship between food and identity, focusing on personal stories and cultural connections through dishes that evoke memories. Episodes may include topics such as culinary traditions in immigrant communities, the role of food in shaping personal identity, and healing through heritage cooking with examples like Richie Castillo sharing a dish that represents home.

This podcast explores the deep connection between food and identity. Each episode, we cook a meaningful dish for our guest, tied to their culture, memories, and personal story. Through food, we uncover stories of belonging, identity, and the universal power of a shared meal to break down barriers to show the power of food: to connect, to break down barriers, and to tell a story about identity, tradition, and belonging.
Bahay means house or home in Tagalog. When we started out as a foodtruck in the height of the pandemic, in 2021, we picked this as we liked the name. We thought we could do a logo around the shape of a house maybe, but mainly just liked the name. In the years since we started this, Bahay has actually become home, not just for us, but for the people who support us in so many ways. Our friends flock to our food truck at festivals, they turn up to help out at a moments notice. Our regulars, become regulars, even when we have never popped up twice in a single location. People recognise us as Bahay on the street, in IKEA, in cafés down the road from where we grew up. This is all based on the community we’ve built and connections we’ve fostered over food. Through the enjoyment of food, for the love of food, and for the exploration of food. All because of food.
The thing we love the most about Bahay has always been the connections we make with people. It’s such an life enriching thing, to be able to feed people. We knew we had to bring this into the podcast in some way, and so we’re going to ask each guest to give us the recipe of the dish that reminds them of home, to prepare for them and so we can share a conversation, over a meal that tells us a little more about who they are.
Join us as we dive deep into the phenomenology of human connection through the lens of food. Our first episode, is with the main man himself, Chef, Founder and soon to be Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapist. Forgive us for the little mistakes, trips and rambles, we’re brand new to this but excited to jump into the deep end, to head for a place that feels like home.

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