{"id":184,"date":"2026-11-09T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/watchnext\/?post_type=podcast&p=184"},"modified":"2026-10-23T16:14:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T16:14:05","slug":"episode-13-the-great-indian-kitchen-with-raj-patel","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/watchnext\/podcast\/episode-13-the-great-indian-kitchen-with-raj-patel\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 13 – The Great Indian Kitchen\u00a0with Raj Patel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Picture this: fresh banana chips being fried in crackling oil, dosa batter spread thin on a hot pan in perfect circular motions, green mangoes, peeled, diced and mixed with spices for pickling. Is your plan white toast looking a little boring? Jeo Baby\u2019s The Great Indian Kitchen<\/em> lures us in with beautiful shots of home cooking and just when we are getting hungry we are trapped in the relentless behind the scenes: spit out bones have to be cleaned, dishes are piling up, and the sink full of dirty water is not draining. The dripping faucet incessantly taps, taps, taps and now is time to start preparing dinner\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week we talk with Raj Patel, research professor at UT\u2019s LBJ School of Public Affairs who specializes in food policy, and discuss who is behind all this labor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Great Indian Kitchen<\/em> (Jeo Baby, 2021)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picture this: fresh banana chips being fried in crackling oil, dosa batter spread thin on a hot pan in perfect circular motions, green mangoes, peeled, diced and mixed with spices for pickling. Is your plan white toast looking a little boring? Jeo Baby\u2019s The Great Indian Kitchen lures us in with beautiful shots of home […]","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/watchnext\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2026\/10\/Final-Pass_2026-08-21_Watch-Next-Raj-Patel.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"41:04","filesize":"56.4M","filesize_raw":"59141952","date_recorded":"2026-08-21 11:58:00","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":""},"tags":[142,81,145,66,71,143,146,147,70,150,144,149,72,140,151,139,138,141,137,148],"categories":[],"series":[2],"class_list":["post-184","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","tag-arati-kadav","tag-drama","tag-feminism","tag-film-analysis","tag-foreign-films","tag-great-indian-kitchen","tag-haunted-kitchen","tag-horror","tag-international-film","tag-jeo-baby","tag-malayalam","tag-malayalam-cinema","tag-movie-discussion","tag-mrs","tag-patriarchy","tag-social-drama","tag-south-india","tag-south-indian-movies","tag-women-empowerment","tag-womens-film","series-watch-next","entry"],"acf":{"related_episodes":"","hosts":[{"ID":72,"post_author":"105","post_date":"2026-02-27 18:15:23","post_date_gmt":"2026-02-27 18:15:23","post_content":"\n

Zeltzyn Rubi Sanchez Lozoya<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is Assistant Professor of Instruction\u00a0at The University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in World Cinema, primarily Indian cinema, women filmmakers, and streaming platforms. Her first book,\u00a0Female Lead: India's Women Filmmakers in the Age of Netflix<\/em>, is slated for publication in 2026 by Routledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Raj Patel is an award-winning author, film-maker and academic. He is a Research Professor in the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs<\/a> at the University of Texas, Austin. He has worked for the World Bank and WTO, and protested against them around the world, and has testified about the causes of the global food crisis to the US, UK and EU governments. He has contributed to a range of publications, from The Guardian<\/em>, to the Financial Times, The Observer<\/em> and the Scientific American<\/em>. His publications include: Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> New York Times and international best-seller The Value of Nothing<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0 A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things<\/em><\/a>, and Inflamed: Deep Medicine and The Anatomy of Injustice<\/em><\/a>. His first film, co-directed with Zak Piper and filmed over the course of a decade in Malawi and the United States, is the award-winning documentary The Ants & The Grasshopper<\/a>. He was a co-host of the food politics podcast The Secret Ingredient<\/a> with Mother Jones\u2019 Tom Philpott, and KUT\u2019s Rebecca McInroy.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Raj Patel","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"raj-patel","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-10-23 16:11:01","post_modified_gmt":"2026-10-23 16:11:01","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/watchnext\/?post_type=speaker&p=186","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"transcript":""},"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/watchnext\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2026\/11\/Watch-Next-logo-1400.png","download_link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/watchnext\/podcast-download\/184\/episode-13-the-great-indian-kitchen-with-raj-patel.mp3","player_link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/watchnext\/podcast-player\/184\/episode-13-the-great-indian-kitchen-with-raj-patel.mp3","audio_player":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/watchnext\/podcast-player\/184\/episode-13-the-great-indian-kitchen-with-raj-patel.mp3<\/a><\/audio>","episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"stitcher":{"key":"stitcher","url":"","label":"Stitcher","class":"stitcher","icon":"stitcher.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/watchnext\/feed\/podcast\/watch-next","embedCode":"

Episode 13 – The Great Indian Kitchen\u00a0with Raj Patel<\/a><\/blockquote>