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Horror author Christine Morgan ("Lakehouse Infernal," "Warlock Infernal," "Spermjackers from Hell")  joins in for a fun discussion about collaborating with Edward Lee, the movie "Shaun of the Dead," and her writing method!

The LEE Initiative has been working to improve the restaurant industry for several years, with programs like a women's chef mentorship program. When COVID-19 swept across the United States, shuttering restaurants and leaving millions of industry employees out of work, founders Edward Lee, Lindsey Ofcacek, and their team instituted a number of new programs to help workers, farms, and other industry constituents across the United States.

On this episode, Edward and Lindsey take time out from their brutal schedules to discuss the origins of the Initiative, how it applies restaurant principles to philanthropy, what its latest relief efforts are, and how listeners (this means you) can help.

Learn more and contribute to the LEE Initiative via their website.

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We head south to Kentucky to continue our series about the coronavirus pandemic’s effects on the food industry. Lindsey Ofcacek is co-founder, managing director and mentor of the LEE Initiative. She along with acclaimed chef Edward Lee set up the organization to promote career development, equality and diversity in the restaurant community. As the pandemic sent millions of restaurant industry workers to the unemployment lines, Lindsey connected with Thomas Bolton, diplomat for Maker’s Mark, and together they helped roll out the Restaurant Workers Relief Program and the Restaurant Reboot Relief Program. Los Angeles’ Jeff Miller has risen to national prominence as a food and travel writer and TV host. He’s also the frontman for the world’s first indie rock tribute band, Black Crystal Wolf Kids, paying costumed, audience-participation-encouraged homage to the likes of LCD Soundsystem, Billie Eilish, the Talking Heads and Weezer. Jeff joins us to play live covers of some of our favorite all-time songs, and also shares his deeply personal work with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Man Of The Year Campaign.

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With mentorship, the impossible miraculously become possible. Nice to say, but what does that really look like? On this episode of Speaking Broadly, Louisville chef Edward Lee talks about his employment empowerment project, The Lee Initiative. And award recipient, Emie Dunagan describes how the program facilitated her transformation from a socially-awkward wunderkind Southern baker to a confident pastry chef.

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On this Father's Day episode, Cathy is joined by Chef Edward Lee, the owner of 3 restaurants in Kentucky, culinary director of Succotash in Washington D.C., and author of the cookbook Smoke + Pickles. Edward pays tribute to the legacy of his friend Anthony Bourdain. And he talks about his memoir, Buttermilk Graffiti, which highlights new ethnic cuisines throughout America. Edward talks about how culinary appropriation is a natural byproduct of a cuisine's evolution, and how it's important for chefs to keep taking risks.

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