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How Amaranth Influenced Indigenous Culture and Cooking in the American Southwest

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Michael Shaikh Explores the History and Legacy of Pueblo Cuisine in New Mexico

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“Fidelity to Both Pleasure and Humiliation.” On M.F.K. Fisher’s Feminist Realism

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Food as First Language: Mike Curato on the Validation of Learning to Cook Filipino Food

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