BONUS: DC Black Restaurant Week Opens Doors For Black-Owned Eateries
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2018
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Lots of big cities have a restaurant week. But, Washington DC is about to have a Black Restaurant Week. Why is that important? Peter Ogburn talks to Jamila Robinson from USA Today about the opportunities that black owned restaurants can get from this. Plus, isn't all food political? And when you really think about it, MOST of the food traditions that we celebrate here in America come from black foodways.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Bill Press Show. |
| 0:10.7 | Yes, it is the Bill Press Show. |
| 0:13.2 | Here with the weekend podcast, you know during the week we talk about all kinds of political issues. |
| 0:19.6 | And here on the weekend, we sometimes get a little bit away from politics, although everything |
| 0:23.6 | is kind of political these days. |
| 0:25.4 | And one of the things that's very, very political that we often talk about on these weekend |
| 0:30.7 | podcast is food. |
| 0:34.0 | Yes, indeed. |
| 0:35.0 | Food is very, very political. |
| 0:37.0 | And joining me now to talk about that is Jamila Robinson. She is content strategist for the USA Today Network. Welcome. First trip in studio. Thank you for Peter for having me. I'm excited to be here with you and to talk about food. |
| 0:49.7 | You and I have been virtually following each other for a while now. |
| 0:53.7 | Exactly. We've been food fans. |
| 0:56.0 | Exactly. Exactly. That's again, it's one of those things. It's just like, no matter what, right? Like, you'll always have food to talk about. |
| 1:02.0 | Exactly. We'd like to bring people to the table and that's where all of the great discussions happen. |
| 1:07.0 | It's so funny, right? Because one of the, again, this is, again, with the intersection of politics and food, |
| 1:13.6 | I remember there were so many people so concerned about Thanksgiving in 2016 after the |
| 1:19.6 | election that we had and you're going to see family members who might have voted the way that |
| 1:24.6 | you didn't vote with. |
| 1:25.6 | I certainly felt that anxiety. But then like, you know, you just sit down and you eat like a really nice meal that everybody works really hard on. And, you know, it's nice. It's absolutely. That's true. And sometimes some of that anxiety that we have about the discussions that will take place at a dinner table, sometimes people aren't having the same |
| 1:44.4 | anxiety that you think that they might be having. And sometimes having a good toast, |
| 1:50.2 | talking about whatever are the things that actually bring you together, those are the kinds of |
| 1:56.7 | things that should happen at a dinner table. Yeah. As we mentioned, food is very, very political. |
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