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“Discount tourism”: Lavanya Ramanathan on the term “ethnic food”

What should we eat tonight? If you live in an urban area, your immediate response to that question might be to propose an ethnic cuisine. Careful, though. In this July 2015 article, Washington Post features writer Lavanya Ramanathan distinguishes between our innate desire to explore the world with our taste buds and the attitude of smugness and condescension toward “ethnic food” that appears frequently in restaurant reviews and food writing.

Read it here: Ramanathan, "Why everyone should stop calling immigrant food ‘ethnic’”

 

Less pop: Candace Choi on drink consumption with Happy Meals

Some call it soda, others call it pop. Some say coke generically, even if it’s Pepsi that they drink. Whatever you call it, even McDonald’s concedes that we drink too much of it, and they are working to reduce soda consumption with their Happy Meals. Candice Choi, an Associated Press reporter who covers the food and beverage beat, wrote this July 2015 report published in the Naples News.

Read it here: Choi, “McDonald’s: Fewer Happy Meal orders opting for soda”