Women of color have always shaped the way Americans eat

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🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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For decades, the ingredients, dishes and chefs that are popularized have been filtered through the narrow lens of a food and publishing world dominated by mostly white, mostly male decision-makers. But with more food authors of color taking center stage, is that changing? In this episode, we dive deep into food publishing, past and present.

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0:00.0	This message comes from NPR sponsor,
0:02.2	Sony Pictures Classics, presenting Freud's last session.
0:06.0	Anthony Hopkins is Sigmund Freud, and Matthew Good is CS Lewis
0:10.3	in Freud's last session, now playing select theaters.
0:14.0	Hey everyone, you're listening to Code Switch.
0:17.0	I'm B.A. Parker.
0:18.0	Now we're at the end of another calendar
0:21.0	and to wrap up the year, we're going to share an episode from
0:24.2	2023 that made me think a little differently about food and cooking and I'm not
0:30.4	even that into cooking.
0:32.6	It's from Lori Lizzaraga and our beloved Karen Grecby Bates,
0:36.8	and I'll let them take it from here.
0:40.6	Our story today is a schmorgisbord, not of food, but about food.
0:46.6	So it's only right that we start there with food, Karen.
0:50.0	Everyone's got a favorite.
0:51.3	What are yours?
0:52.3	Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Cuban. Everyone's got a favorite. What are yours?
0:52.8	Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Cuban, hamburger.
0:56.2	Whoa, she had those ready to go.
0:59.2	How about you, Lori?
1:01.0	I'm a little pickier than you, I think think here and I have favorite dishes more than whole cuisines but top spots for me go to soup dumplings
1:08.6	and Panadas gumbo black and rice, just like any rice cooked anyway.
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