The story of the food on your plate is more than just the recipe. Each ingredient and every cooking technique goes back hundreds if not thousands of years, crisscrossing the globe on a wild culinary adventure. In Beyond The Menu, host Cecilia Phillips uncovers the backstory on some of today’s most popular dishes.

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Support for this program comes from the Krishnan Shah Family Foundation and supporters of the KQED Studios Fund.