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Oct 2023
24m 57s

Sarah Lohman on Creating a More Affordab...

THE SLOWDOWN
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The culinary historian Sarah Lohman, author of the new book “Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods,” talks about the importance of engaging with local foodways, why “the idea that eating McDonald’s is universally bad is woefully unaware of class and racial conflicts,” and how Indigenous communities across the U.S. are fighting to protect their heritag ... Show More
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