Issue 157: Alicia Kennedy's essay on the often-invisible immigrant labor behind the food system — and white consumers' reactions to it — is 100% worth reading.
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I think this was one of my favorite lines from the essay – "We can talk about culture and melting pots and all the things we learn from people different from us—the richness of gustatory pleasure, the bourgeois exuberance of a well-cooked, well-sourced meal; we can talk about the inequities and we can even try to do something about them to the best of our abilities, yet this is the backdrop, no matter how hard we might try to divest ourselves of it."
Hello! Looks like the comments feature is just available on the web version of this newsletter. If you see this, chime in! I'll try to start using this section for discussion soon.
I think this was one of my favorite lines from the essay – "We can talk about culture and melting pots and all the things we learn from people different from us—the richness of gustatory pleasure, the bourgeois exuberance of a well-cooked, well-sourced meal; we can talk about the inequities and we can even try to do something about them to the best of our abilities, yet this is the backdrop, no matter how hard we might try to divest ourselves of it."