Your Last Meal | What food’s in PBS host Danielle Chang’s bag?
The Lucky Chow host says soy sauce makes everything taste better, and we learn why many Black Americans, like Beyoncé, carry hot sauce in their bags.
Danielle Chang has been using food as a tool to promote diversity since her family immigrated from Taiwan to Texas when she was 5. Despite being picked on, she made friends by inviting her classmates over after school to try the Chinese food she loved so much.
Danielle welcomes host Rachel Belle into her world of soy sauce snobbery, and Your Last Meal listeners call in to confess what condiments they have sneaked into restaurants, movie theaters and doughnut shops over the years.
First Beyoncé sang about having hot sauce in her bag, then Hillary Clinton talked about her spicy stash on the campaign trail. But Emmy-nominated journalist Myra Flynn says the habit of toting hot sauce started out of necessity with enslaved Americans.
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