Juan Escalona Meléndez is a chef and culinary philosopher based in Mexico City, we talk together about slow and indigenous foodways, self determination and allyship, and especially about cooking mushrooms!
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Special thanks to Paul Molyneaux, who connected us and wrote about Juan for National Fisherman. He also wrote: Swimming in Circles and Doryman’s Reflections.
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This interview features Juan Escalona Meléndez, as interviewed by Severine von Tscharner Fleming. Production is by Mary Ball, and editing is by Rachel Darke. Our intro and outro music is The Fly, by Cosmo Sheldrake. Thank you for listening!