How to Water a Food Desert

Proof

America's Test Kitchen

Society & Culture, Food, Arts

4.4 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Black Americans have deep historical connections and ownership over vegan and plant-based cuisines. But after the Great Migration, many left farms and the Jim Crow South to cities where urbanization and the advent of fast food changed the landscape of accessibility to fresh foods. In this episode of Proof, writer Gabrielle Lawrence-Cormier reconnects with their family's pre-Great Migration gardening traditions and reclaims their plant-based culinary roots. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thanks to this season's presenting sponsor, Kohler, they designed innovative sinks and
0:05.5	faucets for people who do their best work in the kitchen.
0:13.6	Hey Proof listeners, I want to tell you about a great podcast I recently discovered called
0:18.2	Naked Lunch.
0:19.8	It's hosted by Phil Rosenthal, creator of one of my favorite shows on Netflix, Somebody
0:24.6	Feed Phil.
0:25.6	Phil and his pal, renowned music journalist David Wilde, have conversations over lunch
0:30.1	with some of the most interesting people they know.
0:33.0	If you love great conversations with fascinating people and if you love lunch, I know I do,
0:38.1	this is the podcast for you.
0:40.4	Follow and listen to Naked Lunch wherever you get your favorite podcasts.
0:52.1	I'm trying to remember the first time I heard the phrase, you are what you eat.
0:56.8	What does that even mean?
0:57.8	I am what I eat.
0:59.3	I, Kevin Pang, am an entire pint of Ben and Jerry's, I inhaled last night on the couch.
1:05.4	Like the best stafferisms, it packs a lot of truth and wisdom in those five pithy words.
1:12.1	On the one hand, it gets at this idea that if you're eating well, you probably feel pretty
1:17.5	good and you're defined as a quote-unquote, healthy person.
1:21.2	But on the other hand, if you haven't been able to eat well, you probably aren't feeling
1:25.2	too well either.
1:26.7	You're labeled as unhealthy.
1:28.8	Well, it's the real world and things are a bit more complicated than that.
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