Broken Bread

Roy explores how cooking rehabilitates marginalized individuals and highlights organizations helping them. He visits Homeboy Industries and Dough Girl, a pizzeria employing at-risk youth. L.A. Mayor Garcetti also discusses purposeful workforce models

Roy meets the individuals bringing healthy and affordable food options into South L.A. communities that lack access to fresh food.

Roy explores the future culinary landscapes of a world increasingly affected by climate change—a world with surprising plant-based replacements for our favorite ingredients and non-traditional protein sources like crickets and jellyfish.

Roy visits Chris Yang’s Pop Cultivate to explore the emergence of a new culinary landscape since the advent of legalized recreational marijuana. Roy tackles the gentrification of cannabis culture and sheds light on efforts to build cannabis equity for those hit hardest by the War on Drugs.

Roy journeys from L.A. to Orange County to discover how two non-profit innovators are tackling the problem of food waste. Roy visits Robert Egger, whose project LA Kitchen is simultaneously aggregating wasted food, using it to cook fresh meals for those in need, and providing workforce training. Roy also visits Bill Bracken of Bracken’s Kitchen who partners with Chefs to End Hunger to reuse leftover food and distribute it with his food truck in Orange County. Roy also visits with Richard Garcia at Alma Backyard Farms in Compton where kids are learning how food in grown by digging in to Alma’s hands-on program.

Roy takes a head-on look at efforts to heal the social and economic wounds of Watts, acknowledging one of the oldest communities in Los Angeles as a mirror into ourselves and our future.