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It’s a beloved ingredient in French cuisine and many classic dishes, but it has fallen out of favor in contemporary cooking, especially in America.

“Exotic Deadly: Or the MSG Play” — which has played San Diego, San Francisco and, later this year, Seattle — centers on a time-traveling high schooler saving the world from the ingredient pervasive to Asian cuisine.

Watch the grainy black-and-white footage today and you almost forget everything you know about Italian cuisine for a moment.

Beyond nut milks, pestos and Romesco sauce, nuts are particularly vital in Mexican and Mexican-American cuisine, enriching salsas and sauces with texture, richness and depth.

Bong’s incisive portraits of contemporary life and its potential dystopian futures wouldn’t be complete without the cuisines that adorn his visions.