Sociologist Priya Fielding-Singh on “How the Other Half Eats”

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🗓️ 21 December 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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For her new book How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America, Stanford-trained sociologist Priya Fielding-Singh talked to 75 Bay Area families from a variety of backgrounds about their everyday food choices. She joins us to discuss class, race, and nutritional inequity and why, as she writes in the book, “access to healthy food is about more than geography and finances.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.0	How do you and your family choose what to eat?
0:48.4	What do those choices mean to you and what do they say about you to the world?
0:52.5	How does the runaway inequality of American society structure how families eat?
0:57.1	Priya Fielding's new book, How the Other Half Eats,
0:59.9	tackles these difficult topics through up-close accounts of how Bay Area families make their food decisions.
1:06.2	It's an empathetic, fascinating book that uses real-world experiences to question many prevailing
1:11.7	notions about why some people eat healthy diets and others do not.
1:16.1	She'll join us to describe her research and answer your questions after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. This book, Priya Fielding Singh writes
1:37.6	and the introduction of how the other half eats is about feeding families and the weight that
1:42.7	bears on parents from all walks of life.
1:45.6	It is based on 75 in-depth interviews with Bay Area families,
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