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How history, heritage, discrimination, and culture shape the way we eat.

After a last-ditch lawsuit is filed in Texas, Black farmers wait to learn the fate of USDA’s imperiled debt relief program

10.26.2021
Safiya Charles
Conservationists see rare nature sanctuaries. Black farmers see a legacy bought out from under them.
10.21.2021
by Tony Briscoe, ProPublica + Rashod Taylor
Why’s it taken so long for foreign-language characters and words to make it into English cookbooks?
09.30.2021
by Rachel Baron
Can hemp live up to its hype? Black farmers have to carefully weigh the potential risks and rewards.
09.09.2021
by Safiya Charles
GRAPHIC: Very few farmers are millennials. Of those, the vast majority are white.
07.20.2021
by Mary Hennigan
After speaking up and walking away from Bon Appétit, Ryan Walker-Hartshorn re-evaluates her expectations of food media
07.19.2021
by Ryan Walker-Hartshorn + Talia Moore
Reclaiming LA
07.08.2021
by Stella Kalinina/High Country News
This corporate lawyer gained 2.3 million TikTok followers in the last year, “veganizing” Korean recipes
06.25.2021
by Joanne Molinaro + Jesse Hirsch
The book “High on the Hog” nourished me as a Black chef when “New American Cuisine” had no place for me or my history
06.18.2021
by Thérèse Nelson
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