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    The Salt
    Nigerian chef and writer Tunde Wey conceived his food stall experiment as a way to get people thinking about the racial income and wealth gaps in America and how it affects their own lives.
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    Food Stall Serves Up A Social Experiment: Charge White Customers More Than Minorities

    Mar 02, 2018
    To highlight racial income disparity, a chef in New Orleans opened a food stall, asking whites to pay $30 and people of color to pay $12 for the same meal. How did it play out?
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    The Salt
    This tempting row of black forest cupcakes was available at SweetArt, a combination bakery and gallery in St. Louis, that participated in Black Restaurant Week last year.
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    Black Restaurant Week: Across U.S., Events Remind Diners, 'We're Here. Support Us'

    Feb 14, 2018
    Blacks often struggle to raise capital to open and run restaurants, a legacy of discrimination. Over the past few years, promotions to help diners know which restaurants are black-owned have spread.
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    The Salt
    Photos of Chinese men working in the fields and bottling wine are displayed in Buena Vista's tasting room. "We feel it's more important than ever to talk about the reason we exist and the people who contributed to it − Chinese, Hungarian, French," says
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    Chinese Laborers Built Sonoma's Wineries. Racist Neighbors Drove Them Out

    Jul 13, 2017
    Enjoying a chardonnay or cabernet sauvignon? In the 1800s, Chinese immigrants helped introduce those iconic varietals to California's wine country. But as vineyards grew, so did anti-Chinese fervor.
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    The Salt
    Fannie Lou Hamer, the famed voting rights activist from Mississippi, pictured here in 1964, also became what we would call a "food sovereignty" activist.
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    Race, Class And Paying Down Southern Food's Great 'Debt Of Pleasure'

    Jun 11, 2017
    In his book, The Potlikker Papers, John T. Edge tells the story of modern Southern history through food — which means "explicitly digging into issues of race, class, gender, ethnicity," he says.
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    The Salt

    'Tar Baby': A Folk Tale About Food Rights, Rooted In The Inequalities Of Slavery

    May 11, 2017
    Versions of the story of Bre'r Rabbit outwitting Bre'r Fox exist around the world. At heart, a new book argues, they're really about who controls access to food and subverting the powers that be.
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    The Salt
    A recipe for chocolate chip cookies from the 1948 edition of <em>A Date with A Dish</em>.
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    Meet Freda DeKnight, A 'Hidden Figure' And Titan Of African-American Food

    Feb 16, 2017
    DeKnight was Ebony's first food editor and author of a best-selling African-American cookbook in the '40s. Her recipes presented a vision of black America that was often invisible in mainstream media.
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    The Salt
    Braii is South African for barbecue. Here, meat is roasted over wood at Mzoli's, a popular butcher and grill in Gugulethu township.
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    Apartheid Is Long Gone, But African Food Is Still Hard To Find In Cape Town

    Dec 12, 2016
    South Africa's capital is now a global food hot spot. But the lack of restaurants serving traditional dishes of the continent speaks to larger concerns about what this post-apartheid society values.
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    The Salt
    Beatty poses for the media after the Man Booker Prize award ceremony in London, on Oct. 25, 2016.
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    Watermelon War: America's First Booker Prize Novel Takes On Racial Food Slurs

    Nov 16, 2016
    In his belligerently funny novel The Sellout, Paul Beatty eviscerates racial politics in the U.S. by aiming some of his sharpest stabs at that old and vicious shaming device: the food slur.
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    The Salt
    Gold and Silver Manto, or steamed buns, are among the appetizers on the menu at MáLà Project.
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    New Wave Of Chinese Restaurants Challenges 'Cheap' Stereotype

    Nov 14, 2016
    Chinese food has long been seen as cheap takeout. Now a new generation of deep-pocketed immigrant restaurateurs aims to offer an updated spin on the Chinese restaurant, with prices to match the decor.
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    The Salt
    The finished rabbit, which would have been hunted by slaves and shared among dozens of people.
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    This Historian Wants You To Know The Real Story Of Southern Food

    Oct 01, 2016
    Michael Twitty wants credit given to the enslaved African-Americans who were part of Southern cuisine's creation. So he goes to places like Monticello to cook meals slaves would have eaten.
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    The Salt
    A platter of falafel, kafta, french fries and other fare at Al Ameer Restaurant in Dearborn, Mich. The Mediterranean eatery will be recognized by the James Beard Awards this year in the "American Classics" category.
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    At Food World 'Oscars,' Category Sneakily Redefines All-American Cuisine

    May 02, 2016
    Most James Beard awards go to haute cuisine, but one prize recognizes classic neighborhood joints. And increasingly, the winners are immigrants whose cultures haven't yet dissolved in the melting pot.
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    'Nurse, Spy, Cook:' How Harriet Tubman Found Freedom Through Food

    Apr 27, 2016
    Tubman's role as a professional cook has often been overlooked. She self-funded many of her heroic raids to rescue slaves through an activity she enjoyed and excelled at: cooking.
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