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Question Your Understanding of “Authentic” Food
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Question Your Understanding of “Authentic” Food

Conversations about authentic food and dining often center white people’s version of authenticity.

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2400 1592 Jami Nakamura Lin
Year in Review: The Impact Food Has On Us Beyond Our Bodies
A man selling fruits at a food stall.

Year in Review: The Impact Food Has On Us Beyond Our Bodies

Food is a cornerstone of culture, and our ability to access healthy food and decide what we consume is rooted in the same inequities that other industries face.

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1280 853 Nicole Cardoza
Serve restaurant equity.

Serve restaurant equity.

As the completion date of Line 3 nears, there’s still much to be done to protect Indigenous activists and their land.

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6000 3376 Andrew Lee

End the “lunchbox moment”.

The fun of this segment is based on disgust: we see our famous celebrities shriek, gag, and embarrass themselves confronted with revolting foods. Some of the items featured were clearly specially created to evoke just such revulsion: hot dog juice, hot sauce and olive jello, the aforementioned ant pickle.

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Support immigrants beyond food.

It’s hypocritical to consume Asian or Asian-American cultural products and then refuse to defend Asian communities in the U.S. – or worse, exhibit open hostility against them. At the same time, we shouldn’t predicate supporting immigrant communities on enjoying their food, especially since the reason why so many Asian immigrants work in restaurants is itself a product of American racism.

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150 150 Andrew Lee

Explore the origins of cuisine.

As the pandemic surges, diners and celebrities have drummed up support for BIPOC and immigrant restaurateurs. However, to revolutionize the industry we need more than one-off campaigns. Alongside policy to secure humane working conditions for workers, we need to reexamine our approach to “ethnic food”.

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The Answer to America’s Food Desert Problem
Two people near a food display inside a New York bodega.

The Answer to America’s Food Desert Problem

Underserved communities are disproportionately becoming zoned as food deserts as access to grocery stores becomes limited.

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2400 1597 Sydney Cobb
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