Today we bring you a bonus episode from our sister show, The Mother Jones Podcast. The coronavirus pandemic is devastating the hospitality industry. Millions of Americans are in lockdown. Events are being cancelled. The day before the release of this podcast episode, New York City's restaurants and bars have been forced to stop sit-down service. In the midst of a crisis, the worst thing that could happen to the restaurant industry has happened. This week, we talked to restaurant owners in the Chinatown in Flushing, Queens. This is a thriving immigrant community, and food-lover’s paradise, that has been turned upside down by COVID-19. For restauranteurs already operating on slim profit margins, staying open during the shutdown was already near-impossible. The question is whether they’ll be able to reopen at all. Also on the show: you share with us your stories about stepping up to help others through the crisis, and they are seriously inspirational. Tune in for all sorts of strategies, big and small, for giving your community a helping hand.
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77 – "Bao" Director Domee Shi Gives a Sweet Dumpling a Dark Twist
76 – What It Feels Like to Be Big in America
75 – Cooking Chicken With Beto O’Rourke
74 – The Cult of the Chili Pepper
39 – Songs That Make Food Taste Better
73 – The Five-Second Rule, and Other Food Myths Busted
72 – These Spices Will Transform Your Life
71 – When Food Stamps "Turn Your Life Around"
70 – Sheriff Corndog
69 – Samin Nosrat Gets Salty
68 – The Godfather of Mexican Wine
67 – The Shocking Reason Why Millions of Animals Drowned in North Carolina
66 – The Bizarre Fad Diet Taking the Far Right by Storm
65 – What to Cook for Your Favorite Author
64 – Finding Salvation in Salad
63 – Farmers Are Growing Squash That Actually Taste Good
62 – Just Give People Money
61 – Comic W. Kamau Bell on Getting Coffee While Black
60 – (Not) Eating Animals
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