If This Food Could Talk · Claudia Hanna

Where Cake Meets Consciousness: Helen Goh on Baking as Identity, Community, and Connection

·1 hr 3 min·5 clips
Helen Goh describes how her mother, who spoke no English in Australia, used cooking to regain her identity and connect her family.
Host Claudia Hanna interviews baker and psychologist Helen Goh about her new cookbook 'Baking and the Meaning of Life,' exploring how her multicultural background, psychology training, and career journey inform her approach to baking as a form of identity, community, and emotional connection.

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A baking conversation about migration, memory, and flavors that carry a life.

Claudia Hanna frames food as identity, community, and pleasure, and Helen Goh meets that with a migration-shaped baking view that brings Malaysia, Australia, and Ottolenghi into the same practical register.

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For a warm listen about baking, memory, and identity across Malaysia and Australia.

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