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Episode 468 RE:Her + Annie Hart
Aired: Sunday, January 17th 2021
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HOSTED BY Finger on the Pulse
Showcasing Los Angeles’ incredible women-owned restaurants, the Regarding Her festival (RE:Her) takes its inaugural flight on January 21. The 10-day event features a roster of 100 participating restaurants from all across the sprawling metropolis, and is a spectrum of the city’s diverse cuisines and eateries. Lien Ta, of All Day Baby, and Heather Sperling of Botanica, are two of RE:Her’s nine founding members, and they give us the rundown of how the festival came to be and what you can expect to see on the menus.
Courtesy of ANNE FISHBEIN; MAGDALENA WIELOPOLSKA; ANDREA D’AGOSTO; JOYCE KIM; COURTESY OF SUBJECT
Her co-founder Dina Samson, co-owner of DTLA’s Rossoblu; Socalo’s Baja seafood platter; Her merch; Hotville Chicken’s Kim Prince; All Day Baby’s Lien Ta.
Running Jan. 21-30, the 10-day fest will include more than 100 eateries as organizers attempt to boost female-run businesses that have suffered during the pandemic.
Last fall, as restaurants in L.A. faced an endless wave of changing COVID-19 restrictions, nine female restaurateurs from across the city started a virtual meetup. We needed a place to vent, a sounding board to just talk, says Hotville Chicken owner Kim Prince. Those discussions evolved into the sharing of resources and grant information. Some ladies have six locations and 300 employees and now they re down to 40. Hearing things like that gave me some comfort and allowed me to breathe and recognize, OK, I m not the only one struggling. We re all struggli