Obama’s 2015 State of the Union, strange ethnic food trends and Bombay Rickey’s Kamala Sankaram

Obama’s 2015 State of the Union, strange ethnic food trends and Bombay Rickey’s Kamala Sankaram
Obama’s 2015 State of the Union, strange ethnic food trends and Bombay Rickey’s Kamala Sankaram

Obama’s 2015 State of the Union, strange ethnic food trends and Bombay Rickey’s Kamala Sankaram

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Steve Clemons, Washington editor-at-large for The Atlantic, joins us to discuss the foreign policy goals Obama laid out in last night’s State of the Union speech. Immigrant populations to the U.S. have shaped our local cuisines in unique ways. A recent Yelp and Huffington Post collaboration looked at over-represented cuisines by state. Chewing the Fat co-hosts Louisa Chu and Monica Eng join us to discuss the results of the data. For Global Notes, we’ll talk with singer Kamala Sankaram, part of the trio Bombay Rickey. She joins us on this week’s Global Notes with Radio M and Morning Shift host Tony Sarabia. We’ll also hear some tracks from Bombay Rickey’s debut release ‘Cinefonia: Cowboys & Indians’ PHOTO: (AP Photo/Mandel Ngan, Pool)