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      <title>Food Stall Serves Up A Social Experiment: White Customers Asked To Pay More</title>
      <description>To highlight racial income disparity, a chef in New Orleans opened a food stall at which he asked whites to pay $30 and people of color to pay $12 for the same meal. How did it play out?</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2018 22:06:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/03/02/590053856/food-stall-serves-up-a-social-experiment-charge-white-customers-more-than-minori</link>
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      <dc:creator>Maria Godoy</dc:creator>
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      <title>Black Restaurant Week: Across U.S., Events Remind Diners, &apos;We&apos;re Here. Support Us&apos;</title>
      <description>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.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2018 11:34:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Alan Greenblatt</dc:creator>
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      <title>Chinese Laborers Built Sonoma&apos;s Wineries. Racist Neighbors Drove Them Out</title>
      <description>Enjoying a chardonnay or cabernet sauvignon? In the 1800s, Chinese immigrants helped introduce those iconic varietals to California&apos;s wine country. But as vineyards grew, so did anti-Chinese fervor.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2017 13:51:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/07/13/536822541/the-forgotten-chinese-who-built-sonoma-s-wineries</link>
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      <dc:creator>Grace Hwang Lynch</dc:creator>
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      <title>Why The Story Of Southern Food Is As Much About People As Dishes</title>
      <description>In his new book, John T. Edge tries to pay down what he calls &quot;a debt of pleasure&quot; to the African-American and immigrant cooks whose stories are often left out of the narrative.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2017 07:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/06/11/532086897/grappling-with-race-class-and-southern-foods-great-debt-of-pleasure</link>
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      <dc:creator>Maria Godoy</dc:creator>
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      <title>&apos;Tar Baby&apos;: A Folk Tale About Food Rights, Rooted In The Inequalities Of Slavery</title>
      <description>Versions of the story of Bre&apos;r Rabbit outwitting Bre&apos;r Fox exist around the world. At heart, a new book argues, they&apos;re really about who controls access to food and subverting the powers that be.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2017 14:36:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/05/11/527459106/tar-baby-a-folktale-about-food-rights-rooted-in-the-inequalities-of-slavery</link>
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      <dc:creator>Nina Martyris</dc:creator>
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      <title>Freda DeKnight: A &apos;Hidden Figure&apos; And Titan Of African-American Cuisine</title>
      <description>DeKnight was &lt;em&gt;Ebony&lt;/em&gt;&apos;s first food editor and author of a best-selling African-American cookbook in the &apos;40s. Her recipes presented a vision of black America that was often unseen in mainstream media.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:55:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/02/16/514360992/meet-freda-deknight-a-hidden-figure-and-titan-of-african-american-food</link>
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      <dc:creator>Donna Battle Pierce</dc:creator>
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      <title>Apartheid Is Long Gone, But African Food Is Still Hard To Find In Cape Town</title>
      <description>Cape Town, South Africa, 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.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2016 07:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/12/12/504014880/apartheid-is-long-gone-but-african-food-is-still-hard-to-find-in-cape-town</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src='https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2016/12/08/africa-2_wide-ab134be0ab9a41efa304f96730b73bf411dc5924.jpg' alt='The few African restaurants in downtown Cape Town, such as Mama Africa, cater mainly to tourists.'/><p>Cape Town, South Africa, 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.</p><img src='https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=504014880' />]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:creator>Alan Greenblatt</dc:creator>
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      <title>Watermelon War: America&apos;s First Booker Prize Novel Takes On Racial Food Slurs</title>
      <description>In his belligerently funny novel &lt;em&gt;The Sellout&lt;/em&gt;, 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.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2016 07:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Nina Martyris</dc:creator>
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      <title>New Wave Of Chinese Restaurants Challenges &apos;Cheap&apos; Stereotype</title>
      <description>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.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2016 13:48:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/11/14/501161363/the-new-chinese-restaurant-as-china-rises-in-prestige-so-does-its-food</link>
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      <dc:creator>Esther Wang</dc:creator>
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      <title>This Historian Wants You To Know The Real Story Of Southern Food</title>
      <description>Michael Twitty wants credit given to the enslaved African-Americans who were part of Southern cuisine&apos;s creation. So he goes to places like Monticello to cook meals slaves would have eaten.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2016 08:26:17 -0400</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Erika Beras</dc:creator>
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