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On Coca As Food
Carmen Posada Monroy with a Desk Dispatch on Indigenous peoples in Colombia who are reclaiming coca.
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Eating the Museum
Adriana Gallo creates a typology of museum dining. In text and digital zine form.
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The Desk Dispatch: Page, Stage, Plate?
Siobhan Phillips on Madhur Jaffrey, Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, and the recipe form.
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The Desk Dispatch: In Diaspora, Spice Becomes Seed
Ruby Saha follows the thread of mahleb through an Eastern Orthodox baking tradition.
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The Desk Dispatch: Seeking Gustu in La Paz
Hilary Landa writes about the potential and pitfalls of getting to know Bolivia through food.
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The Desk Dispatch: China View Restaurant [Permanently Closed]
Christoph Tsang-Grosse writes of attempting to know his grandfather by visiting his closed restaurant.
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The Desk Dispatch: Layla Schlack on What Jewish Food Means to Her
"Frustratingly, Talmudically, Jewish food is simply what Jews eat," she writes.
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