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    The Salt
    A woman shopping in the 1970s picks up a bag of Snyder's pretzels. Today, Hanover remains a center of snack food manufacturing, even as the food industry changes around it.
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    How The Pennsylvania Dutch Turned A Rural Town Into A Snack Food Empire

    Apr 29, 2019
    In a food landscape dominated by multinational conglomerates like Frito-Lay and PepsiCo, the small town of Hanover, Pa., has produced homegrown snacks for a century and is still thriving today.
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    The Salt
    A bowl of creamy cheese grits. Food writer Erin Byers Murray hopes that exploring the story of grits will help spur more discussion about how food shapes our culture, as humble ingredients are elevated into expensive dishes even as we come to terms with
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    Saving The Story Of Grits, A Dish Born Of Poverty Now On Fine-Dining Menus

    Apr 18, 2019
    Interest in grits is rising because of heirloom corn varieties and the backing of master chefs. But the Southern staple has deep roots that wind through economics, race, politics — and nostalgia.
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    The Salt
    Lunch clubs are becoming a popular trend in offices as a way for co-workers to brighten each other's days by sharing meals they've prepared for one another. They might eat together or at their own separate desks.
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    Rough Day On The Job? A Lunch Club Might Help You Bite Back Those Blues

    Feb 06, 2019
    Bad food on top of a bad workday is ... bad. So some co-workers have created a bright spot — a good meal. And while the food is yummy, the care that goes into making a homemade lunch is even better.
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    Hidden Brain
    Would you eat a cricket?
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    Yum and Yuck: The Psychology Of What We Eat...And What We Spit Out

    Dec 13, 2018
    This week on the Hidden Brain radio show, we dig into the culture and psychology that determines the foods that make us salivate and the scents that make us squirm.
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    Hidden Brain
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    Hungry, Hungry Hippocampus: Why and How We Eat

    Jun 11, 2018
    Food fills many of our needs. Hunger is just one. Paul Rozin explains the profound role that food plays in our lives.
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    The Salt
    A sign advertises "The Workingman's Lunch" — an RC Cola and a MoonPie. The combo cost a dime during the Great Depression, and came in bigger servings than their same-priced competitors.
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    Even After 100 Years, People Are Still Reaching For The Moon(Pie)

    Nov 25, 2017
    Though the marshmallow-chocolate-graham cracker treat began a century ago as a coal-miner's snack, it is still made by the same Chattanooga bakery and has since become a cultural icon of the South.
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    The Salt
    Grabbing turkey legs to gnaw on might be taboo at some tables and encouraged at others. But whatever your Thanksgiving traditions, they're all yours.
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    Is Your Thanksgiving More 'Norman Rockwell' Or 'Game Of Thrones'?

    Nov 22, 2017
    As we get bombarded by ads and advice to host the "perfect" feast, remember that traditions come from all kinds of families — and the bizarre mix of quirks and temperaments they bring to the table.
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    The Salt
    Though the filling is not actually totally transparent, the name of the pie has stuck around since it first appeared in Kentucky newspapers in the 1890s.
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    In Kentucky, Transparent Pie Is Clearly A Thanksgiving Winner

    Nov 21, 2017
    A Bluegrass State specialty, this well-loved, sugary dessert is one of the most basic to make — and maybe that's part of what has made it so popular for so many years.
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    The Salt
    Twitty cooks in plantation kitchens to convey to others the story and legacy of African Americans in the South. His approach is not that of a historian, but rather a "historical interpreter."
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    A Black Food Historian Explores His Bittersweet Connection To Robert E. Lee

    Sep 05, 2017
    Michael Twitty's enslaved ancestors witnessed the Confederate general's surrender, the significance of which weaves through his new memoir as he seeks 'culinary justice' for African Americans.
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    The Salt
    Adam Hashem from Hashem's Market and Roaster demonstrates the proper way to make traditional Turkish coffee.
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    In Michigan, Museum Food Tours Offer Tastes Of Arab Culture

    Aug 23, 2017
    Yalla! Eat walking tours take people into the Arab-American community, where they can talk with business owners about their personal stories and the products they sell.
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    The Salt
    Daniel Begay found that one gram of juniper ash contained about as much calcium as a glass of milk.
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    To Get Calcium, Navajos Burn Juniper Branches To Eat The Ash

    Aug 21, 2017
    Most American Indians are lactose intolerant, which means they need to find nutrients outside of dairy sources. It turns out that a return to traditional cooking methods can be key to good health.
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    The Salt
    The Rhubarb Shrub a is Colonial-day drink made from a syrup of rhubarb, vinegar and sugar.
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    What Did Thoreau Really Eat? You Might Be Surprised

    Jul 11, 2017
    There's no shortage of dietary lore about naturalist and Walden author Henry David Thoreau, so as his bicentennial birthday bash arrives, we wish to debunk these myths deliberately.
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    The Salt
    A typical grocery store now sells about 40,000 products, compared with about 7,000 a couple of decades ago, Ruhlman says.
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    Grocery Stores: 'The Best Of America And The Worst Of America'

    May 15, 2017
    In his new book, Michael Ruhlman explores how and why Americans have changed from corner-store customers to insatiable consumers of every edible product at our fingertips.
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    The Two-Way
    Starbucks recently released the Unicorn Frappuccino, which is a mango-flavored blended drink with "sweet pink and sour blue powder topping."
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    Unicorn Frappuccino: A Digital Age Drink

    Apr 19, 2017
    Starbucks released its Unicorn Frappuccino amid a swirl of social media buzz. "It looks nice," says one customer. And in the age of likes, snaps and tweets, the fantasy may be all that matters.
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    The Salt
    A 1950s ad for Duncan Hines ice cream quotes Hines as saying "Many people tell me they first bought it because they regard my name as a guide to good eating."
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    Duncan Hines: The Original Road Warrior Who Shaped Restaurant History

    Mar 26, 2017
    The name on that box of cake mix belonged to a real person. Hines was a traveling salesman who just wanted to find a decent meal on the road — and ended up being America's go-to restaurant expert.
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    The Salt
    The original <em>Foxfire</em> book series consists of 12 volumes, but there are additional specialty books focusing on cooking, winemaking, religion and music.
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    The Foxfire Book Series That Preserved Appalachian Foodways

    Mar 17, 2017
    Foxfire started as a class project at a Georgia high school in the '60s, but soon became a magazine, then a book, and even a way of teaching about the region's simple, self-sustaining way of life.
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    The Salt
    Eleanor Roosevelt ladles soup into a bowl to help feed unemployed women in the Grand Central Restaurant kitchen in New York City in 1932 during the Great Depression.
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    First Ladies Often Forge Food Trends, But Melania's Menu Is A Mystery

    Dec 09, 2016
    Eleanor brought scrambled eggs and culinary austerity. Mamie favored boxes, cans and leftovers. Jackie embraced French food and Michelle redefined the national plate. And Melania? Who knows?
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    The Salt
    Slave Edmond Albius and a vanilla plant: "Vanilla is here thanks to a 12-year-old slave who figured out a botanical secret no one else knew," Lohman writes.
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    How Just 8 Flavors Have Defined American Cuisine

    Dec 06, 2016
    In her new book, Sarah Lohman says that even though America is culturally and ethnically diverse, its food is united by a handful of tastes that have permeated the nation's cuisine for centuries.
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    The Salt
    During the hot and humid summers in the Philippines, salvation is found in the manna called <em>halo-halo</em> (HAH-loh HAH-loh), an iconic refresher.
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    Why Over-Modifying Traditional Foods Can Dishonor Cultural Identity

    Nov 11, 2016
    Many Filipinos have responded angrily to Bon Appétit's "Ode to Halo-Halo," an iconic treat of the Philippines, because the recipe is so far off the mark that it feels "sacrilegious."
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    The Salt
    Anna Bertucci's Not Your Baba's (Vegetarian) Stuffing.
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    Don't Mess With My Stuffing: Thanksgiving's Most Hotly Debated Dish

    Nov 22, 2015
    Thanksgiving for most people in America means family, turkey and stuffing. We asked NPR's readers what stuffing they make. Turns out there's a lot of passion and variety when it comes to stuffing.
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