# The Woman Behind the Food Brands Taking Over the Middle East | Victoria Hassani (E143) Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chef-jkp-podcast-1251632/season-11-episode-12-the-woman-behind-the-food-brands-taking-over-the-middle-east-victoria-hassani Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chef-jkp-podcast-1251632/season-11-episode-12-the-woman-behind-the-food-brands-taking-over-the-middle-east-victoria-hassani.md Podcast: [The Chef JKP Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chef-jkp-podcast-1251632) Published: 2025-12-04T02:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1104464/episodes/18293865-the-woman-behind-the-food-brands-taking-over-the-middle-east-victoria-hassani-e143.mp3 Audio file: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1104464/episodes/18293865-the-woman-behind-the-food-brands-taking-over-the-middle-east-victoria-hassani-e143.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-chef-jkp-podcast-1251632/episodes/season-11-episode-12-the-woman-behind-the-food-brands-taking-over-the-middle-east-victoria-hassani Duration seconds: 6738 ## Resource Send us Fan Mail Season 11 continues with a story shaped by culture, trade, and a woman who believes food can create understanding in ways politics never can. Victoria Hassani grew up inside her family’s restaurant on the Jersey shore. Breakfast crowds, seafood dinners, a deli, an ice cream shop and a childhood built around menus, ingredients, cost control and hospitality. Her earliest memories were not hobbies or weekend activities. They were food memories. She later studied music, moved t... ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-chef-jkp-podcast-1251632/episodes/season-11-episode-12-the-woman-behind-the-food-brands-taking-over-the-middle-east-victoria-hassani/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chef-jkp-podcast-1251632/season-11-episode-12-the-woman-behind-the-food-brands-taking-over-the-middle-east-victoria-hassani.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.