The Menu

Digitally remastered two-fer containing a pair of '70s albums from the legendary Soul vocalist Jerry Butler (nicknamed 'The Ice Man' for both his 'cool' vocal style and his personal demeanor). Signing with Motown in 1975, Jerry began immediately working on Love's on the Menu with some of Motown's in-house producers, the team of Clayton Ivey and Terry Woodford; and hometown producers Michael Davis and Sam Brown. The album featured mostly original compositions (a number co-written by Butler) alongside covers. Released in 1977, Jerry's second Motown set Suite for a Single Girl (which he co-produced with Homer Talbert and Paul Wilson) and was, as it's' title implied, a concept-driven album…

PBS - Off the Menu: Asian America (2015)
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MP4/AVC @ 2690 Kbps | 56mn 40s | Audio: English AAC 140 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: English | 1.12 GiB
Genre: Documentary

What exactly does food reflect about Asian Pacific Americans? Off the Menu: Asian America grapples with how family, tradition, faith, and geography shape our relationship to food. The program takes audiences on a journey from Texas to New York and from Wisconsin to Hawaii using our obsession with food as a launching point to delve into a wealth of stories, traditions, and unexpected characters that help nourish this nation of immigrants. Off the Menu is a roadtrip into the kitchens, factories, temples and farms of Asian Pacific America that explores how our relationship to food reflects our evolving community. The feature documentary by award-winning filmmaker Grace Lee (American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs) is co-produced by the Center for Asian American Media and KQED, with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.