Radio Story Assignment

Host: Trying to find out more about her classmates’ interests outside of school, student journalist Malina Seenarine sat down with Brianna Levy (she/her), a junior journalism major at Baruch College. They discussed Levy’s hobbies.
Track: I’m here with fellow classmate Brianna Levy on the 6th floor of the Newman Vertical Campus. We are situated in a corner of the mathematics department’s hallway when we start talking about her love for exploring foods.
Act: Brianna: I like cooking, especially from different cuisines.
Track: When it comes to trying new foods Brianna will focus on a specific country’s cuisine. But, when it comes to cooking she will focus on a specific ingredient to figure out the multitude of dishes that ingredients can be used in.
Act: Brianna: I’m currently interested in Mediterranean food but that’s for trying new foods. Right now, specifically, when it comes to cooking at home I want to try cooking with different types of mushrooms.
Track: Brianna finds inspiration for meals on the internet.
Act: Brianna: I saw this one dish of Tik Tok. It was called like Creamy Mushroom Chicken it required like white wine and it was really good. That was the most interesting one I ever had.
Track: She has plans to try even more types of mushrooms.
Act: Briana: I really want to try chicken of the woods and shrimp of woods because I heard they were good for their names like chicken and shrimp. I’ve have tried oyster mushrooms those are really good. They’re delicious, especially when fried it’s a great chicken substitute.
Track: The 19-year-old’s curiosity for different cuisines began at a young age.
Act: I grew up in a Jamaican family and foods that are common within that cuisine is like beef patties, oxtail, rice and peas, stew peas, festival, saltfish stuff like that and when I was in middle school everyone else around me was also Jamaica or some other form of Caribbean so I falsify believed that I had no culture and that my food was boring because everyone else was eating the same thing. From that, I decided to seek more things and I realized- okay- my culture is unique and I do need to appreciate it more. However, I would also just love to try foods from other cultures because my parents are kind of picky – especially my mom – and I don’t want to be picky. I want new experiences.
Track: For Brianna trying new foods means exploring the outside world.
Act: Brianna: I feel really excited especially because I’m usually going outside to try these new foods. A little nervous cause I have to spend money to try them because they’re at restaurants. But usually, I’m by myself and so if I just don’t look at my bank account ya know then I’ll get to enjoy it fully.
Track: When Brianna brings home food to cook she lets her parents try it.
Act: Brianna: I also really like trying to get my parents to try new foods. My parents, they said that they never ate mushrooms as kids in Jamaica and usually they would just kick them like puffball mushrooms they get really big. My mom said that in Jamaica mushrooms were called like duppy umbrellas, duppy means ghost so it like meant to be seen as something creepy and not really within the cuisine at all. It’s kind of funny seeing them squirm every time I bring a mushroom home and trying to get them to try it. Usually, my mom doesn’t eat it but when I brought the oyster mushrooms home she did eat it so I was very proud of that.
Track: Brianna Levy plans to dive deeper into Mediterranean food and try new dishes with mushrooms. Her journey is limitless. From Baruch College, this is Malina Seenarine.