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I'm food and culture writer Alicia Kennedy. In anticipation of my forthcoming book On Eating: The Making and Unmaking of My Appetites, I am talking to interesting folks about their own appetites and the origins of their food habits, pleasures, and beliefs.  

For the second episode, I'm talking to Ashanté M. Reese: a professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, co-editor of Black Food Matters and the author of Black Food Geographies and the forthcoming Gather: Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness.

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I'm food and culture writer Alicia Kennedy. In anticipation of my forthcoming book On Eating: The Making and Unmaking of My Appetites, I am talking to interesting folks about their own appetites and the origins of their food habits, pleasures, and beliefs.  For the first episode, I'm talking to Lauren Collins: a New Yorker staff writer based in Paris and the author of When in French and the forthcoming They Stole a City: Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy.

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Thomas Hjort is the sommelier for the Ark Collective in Cophenhagen, Denmark: a group of three plant-based restaurants. Ark and Bistro Lupa both have green Michelin stars, and on a recent visit to the city, I was able to dine at both. I wanted to get more insight into their wine program, Danish wines, and the way people respond to plant-based fine dining in the city, so I chatted with Hjort about how he's developed their program.

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