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Bitefully

Bitefully

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What happens when a single bite unlocks cultural history, a buried truth, or a complicated family relationship? Bitefully explores the stories we inherit through food — the memories, migrations, traditions, and transformations that shape who we are. Host and MasterChef winner Claudia Sandoval traces personal food pathways back to culture, lineage, and land, revealing how flavor defines identity, recipes carry ancestral knowledge, and storytelling sustains community. From a grandmother's comfort dish to the street food that marked a first-generation immigrant's arrival, each episode is a journey through memory, heritage, and lived experience. Food opens the door — but the stories are what keep us at the table. New episodes every Wednesday, starting June 3rd. Host & Executive Producer: Claudia Sandoval | Producer: Shei Yu I Executive Producer: Saadia Khan I Sound Designer & Editor: Lou Raskin I Theme Music: Lou Raskin | Other Music: Epidemic Sound | Cover Art: Mike Fennessy Love the show? Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and subscribe to stay at the table. Follow along on socials: Instagram · TikTok · Twitter Support the show by subscribing to our channel on Apple: Immigrantly Uninterrupted Bitefully is an Immigrantly Media Production. For advertising inquiries, you can contact us at info@immigrantlypod.com Arte Cucina Enogastronomia Scienze sociali
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  • Velveeta Cheese Dreams

    Velveeta Cheese Dreams
    Jul 15 2026
    Chef Susan Feniger has spent more than four decades building one of the most beloved culinary partnerships in America: Border Grill, City Café, and a restaurant empire stretching from Las Vegas to the new Burbank Airport. But her food story starts much smaller — on a step stool in Toledo, Ohio, licking the fudge paddle while her mom worked her magic. Chef Claudia Sandoval has admired Susan's career for years, and in this episode, she asks about the moments that aren’t Googleable: the green file box holding three generations of handwritten recipes, the first restaurant with no stove and two hibachis in the parking lot, and the Velveeta creation that just might deserve a comeback. Together, they dig into what it means to feed a city when it needs it most: Feed Folks, the commissary kitchen serving thousands of meals a day to food-insecure Angelenos, the culinary program Susan championed at the Los Angeles LGBT Center, and the World Central Kitchen call that turned her team into first responders, during COVID and again during the LA wildfires. Because for Susan, food is the best communicator there is. And if you have a voice, it's your responsibility to use it. New episodes every Wednesday. You can find Chef Susan @susanfeniger and World Central Kitchen @wckitchen on Instagram. ⁠Susan Feniger. Forked⁠ is streaming now. Follow along ⁠@bitefullypod⁠ and ⁠@chefclaudiasandoval⁠ on Instagram Host & Executive Producer: Claudia Sandoval | Producer: Shei Yu | Executive Producer: Saadia Khan | Sound Designer & Editor: Lou Raskin | Theme Music: Lou Raskin | Other Music: Epidemic Sound | Cover Art: Mike Fennessy Bitefully is an Immigrantly Media Production. If you like what you hear, write a review at Bitefully and subscribe to Immigrantly Uninterrupted for ad-free episodes. For advertising inquiries, contact us at info@immigrantlypod.com Would you let your Tía pick your next date? On TIA'S CHOICE, the new YouTube dating show, three New York Tías grill four potential dates — and the lucky single gets zero say in who she ends up with. Subscribe to TIA'S CHOICE on YouTube.https://www.youtube.com/@TiasChoice Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    39 min
  • Chorizo in the Middle

    Chorizo in the Middle
    Jul 8 2026
    Chef Chris Valdes was born into a family restaurant in Miami. Before he could do homework, he was watching his mom stuff a five-hour boliche with chorizo, walking the dining room alongside his dad, and getting what he calls his "pre-training" in the family business of catering to others. In this episode, Chef Claudia Sandoval sits down with her friend Chris to trace his strongest food memories, starting with the day a 10-year-old home alone flipped to Emeril Lagasse on TV, took $20 to the supermarket, and made his first arroz con pollo. Along the way, they talk about manifesting your future and why chefs plate beautifully for everyone else but happily eat plain white rice. At its heart, this conversation is about what it really means to be a chef: cooking with your soul for the people you love. Because for Chris, food is therapy. It's the purest form of love you can offer yourself and everyone at your table. Sixteen years into catering and eleven years on TV, his next chapter is simple: remember why you started. New episodes every Wednesday. You can find Chris Valdes on Instagram @chefchrisvaldes Follow along ⁠@bitefullypod⁠ and ⁠@chefclaudiasandoval⁠ on Instagram Host & Executive Producer: Claudia Sandoval | Producer: Shei Yu | Executive Producer: Saadia Khan | Sound Designer & Editor: Lou Raskin | Theme Music: Lou Raskin | Other Music: Epidemic Sound | Cover Art: Mike Fennessy Bitefully is an Immigrantly Media Production. If you like what you hear, write a review at Bitefully and subscribe to Immigrantly Uninterrupted for ad-free episodes. For advertising inquiries, contact us at info@immigrantlypod.com Would you let your Tía pick your next date? On TIA'S CHOICE, the new YouTube dating show, three New York Tías grill four potential dates — and the lucky single gets zero say in who she ends up with. Subscribe to TIA'S CHOICE on YouTube.https://www.youtube.com/@TiasChoice Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    39 min
  • Matriarchs and Moonshine

    Matriarchs and Moonshine
    Jun 24 2026
    Chef DuVal Warner grew up in Danville, Virginia, surrounded by strong women, Southern cooking, and a community rich with history. From his Aunt Margaret's legendary mac and cheese to his Aunt Shanita's smoked neck bones and collard greens, food was always home. In this episode, Chef Claudia Sandoval sits down with Ranch 45's Chef DuVal to talk about the memories that shaped him: what Juneteenth meant to his family long before it became a federal holiday, the life lessons the Marine Corps gave him that he brings into every kitchen, and the right way to make Southern mac and cheese and potato salad. A man connected to his family, his community, and yes— his moonshine. New episodes every Wednesday. You can find DuVal on Instagram @chefduvalwarner and at San Diego’s Ranch 45 @ranch.45 Follow along ⁠@bitefullypod⁠ and ⁠@chefclaudiasandoval⁠ on Instagram Host & Executive Producer: Claudia Sandoval | Producer: Shei Yu | Executive Producer: Saadia Khan | Sound Designer, Theme Music, & Editor: Lou Raskin | Other Music: Epidemic Sound | Cover Art: Mike Fennessy Bitefully is an Immigrantly Media Production. If you like what you hear, write a review at Bitefully and subscribe to Immigrantly Uninterrupted for ad-free episodes. For advertising inquiries, contact us at info@immigrantlypod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    32 min
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