{"id":21970,"date":"2025-07-27T04:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T04:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattmorales.com\/blog\/?page_id=21970"},"modified":"2025-07-27T04:35:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T04:35:42","slug":"beyond-the-menu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mattmorales.com\/blog\/beyond-the-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond The Menu"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><section class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12  col-xs-mobile-fullwidth\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner \"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"last-paragraph-no-margin\"><h1>Beyond The Menu<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-8  col-xs-mobile-fullwidth\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner \"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-4  col-xs-mobile-fullwidth\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner \"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"last-paragraph-no-margin\"><p> In KQED\u2019s digital food series Beyond The Menu, host Cecilia Phillips interviews chefs, authors, and other experts to dig up surprising facts on the cultural pathways of today\u2019s trendiest dishes. It\u2019s a history show, it\u2019s a mystery series, it\u2019s a celebration of multicultural cuisine, sometimes it\u2019s even a science program, all set against the backdrop of mouth-watering food cinematography. I served as Series Producer &#8211; pitching the initial concept, developing a produciton workflow, maintaining budget and schedules and overseeing a group of producers, editors and cinematographers to create the series.<\/p>\n<h5>Highlights<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/spjnorcal.org\/2024\/10\/30\/spj-norcal-honors-2024-excellence-in-journalism-award-winners\/\">SPJ Norcal 2024 Excellence In Journalism Award<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><strong>2025 Northern California Regional Emmy\u00ae Nomination, <\/strong><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/emmysf.tv\/files\/2025\/05\/E25-Nomination-Press-Release.pdf\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.4rem;\">\u201cSamosas aren\u2019t from India\u2026Wait, what?\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12  col-xs-mobile-fullwidth\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner \"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"last-paragraph-no-margin\"><h4>More Producing<\/h4>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12  col-xs-mobile-fullwidth\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner \"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">[vc_basic_grid post_type=&#8221;page&#8221; max_items=&#8221;10&#8243; element_width=&#8221;2&#8243; item=&#8221;21732&#8243; grid_id=&#8221;vc_gid:1566168596746-fd7a2f796f1c7e63156b1dbc2290fe9d-10&#8243; exclude=&#8221;21770, 21777, 21755, 21744, 21774, 21607, 21619, 21759, 21764, 21751&#8243;]<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beyond The Menu In KQED\u2019s digital food series Beyond The Menu, host Cecilia Phillips interviews chefs, authors, and other experts to dig up surprising facts on the cultural pathways of today\u2019s trendiest dishes. It\u2019s a history show, it\u2019s a mystery series, it\u2019s a celebration of multicultural cuisine, sometimes it\u2019s even a science program, all set &hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21997,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21970","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattmorales.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattmorales.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattmorales.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattmorales.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattmorales.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21970"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mattmorales.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21990,"href":"https:\/\/mattmorales.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21970\/revisions\/21990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattmorales.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattmorales.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}