SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 03, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- If Season 2 of The San Francisco Chronicle’s “Extra Spicy” podcast were a chili pepper, it would be the chao tian jiao, or facing heaven chili, said Chronicle restaurant critic Soleil Ho. “We’re looking up and hoping to get more ambitious!”
One of the Atlantic’s “50 Best Podcasts of 2020,” “Extra Spicy,” hosted by Ho and Chronicle columnist Justin Phillips, launches its second season Feb. 1, 2021, with more irreverent, compelling conversations about the intersection of culture, food, power and politics.
“I’m most excited about documenting just how much the restaurant industry, and the country, continue to change in 2021,” said Phillips. “We’re all on this strange, heartbreaking and sometimes beautiful journey together. The topics are going to reflect that.”
Ho and Phillips tackle topics like the pandemic restaurant apocalypse, how we gender food with author Dr. Emily Contois and what San Francisco’s historic Chinatown means to the city in 2021. Ho and Phillips also interview author Roxane Gay, talk with Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner and hear about viral foraging from TikTok star Alexis Nikole Nelson.
“Season 2 is shaping up to be very woman-oriented, which I am personally very happy about,” said Ho. “I’m excited to bring on lots of women from throughout the food world.”
Ho and Phillips also answer listeners’ questions in the Ask Spicy segment and discuss fast-food logos and other culinary nonsense.
As the Atlantic wrote, “Food discourse’s evolution has been well documented ... Ho and Phillips are writing the new curriculum, which studies all the topics we were told to never discuss at the dinner table.”
“Extra Spicy” is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever podcasts are available.
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