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Bay Area's Pacific Rim Cuisine

Season 1 Episode 105 | 29m 00s

Meet Olivia Wu, designer of the original Asian restaurant concepts on Google's campus where the assembly line churns out 2,000 servings of the Indian fried rice dish, biryani. After a career in Silicon Valley, two retired Japanese executives returned to their ancestral farming roots and constructed an indoor vertical farm which services some of the top restaurants in the Bay Area.

Aired: 05/15/15 | Expires: 05/15/27
Distributed nationally by American Public Television
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