Senator Daniel Inouye, who passed away last week at the fortuitous age of 88, had much to teach about diverse leadership.
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We’re already paying for the service (in taxes), so voting is like a big customer comment board. As soon as we tune out, service gets worse.
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Imagine if just a quarter of our enthusiasm for food were channeled to changing the bill that affects every aspect of food production here and abroad: our impact would be felt.
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Alissa Hamilton is a former Food & Society Fellow, lawyer and scholar from Toronto. She's written a seminal book on the origins and manufacture of
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Originally published in Hyphen magazine.
“No rice, please.” I keep hearing this disturbing sentence from Asian American friends. Many are
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This article on the possible deregulation of crazy-sounding "Agent Orange corn" really freaked me out. I'd rather not have a chemical arms race taking
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As we wrote about in Hyphen Issue 20, the physics of the wok are not child’s play. A mystical marriage of meats and greens occurs when natural oils have built up on the wok’s metal surface, creating a natural nonstick coating also called “seasoning.”
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Korematsu's family were California flower growers, helping lay the groundwork for what became our nation's wealthiest agricultural state. Although Oakland today is almost completely urban, neighborhoods like the Fruitvale are a reminder of the area's beginnings as greenhouses and fruit orchards.
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Phuong Nguyen has worked in and out of the crab industry for 30 years. He learned how to fish in Vietnam before immigrating in 1982, eventually buying his own boat and house after many years of hardscrabble work.
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Sometimes a shrimp sandwich just inspires poetry. Singleton’s Mini Mart is a New Orleans lunch counter owned by the Nguyen family and profiled in Hyphen’s Issue 24, the Survival Issue. Their work ethic and memorable seafood po’boys inspired a New Orleans rap group called Double Trouble to film their first video in Singleton’s, aptly titled “Watch Me Work.”
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