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Food Politics
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Delivery Orders Won’t Come With Forks AnymoreOr spoons, or ketchup, or those little packets of duck sauce.
By Chris Crowley
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Florida Becomes Latest State to Pass a $15 Minimum WageIt will be raised annually through 2026 and then adjusted for inflation every year after.
By Chris Crowley
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food politics
Court’s Food-Stamp Ruling Is a Loss for Trump, a Win for Basic DecencyA federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s plan to end SNAP benefits for nearly 700,000 unemployed Americans.
By Rachel Sugar
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street vendors
By Rachel Sugar
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street vendors
NYPD Will No Longer Be Involved in Street Vendor Enforcement“Moving vendor enforcement away from NYPD is a welcomed decision, but we await further details of the replacement plan.”
By Chris Crowley
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food politics
Fast-Food Companies Still Don’t CareEmpty messages don’t change a rotten system.
By Chris Crowley
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food politics
New York City Caps Delivery Fees at 15 PercentThe law is one of seven meant to provide relief for restaurants and other commercial establishments.
By Chris Crowley
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Horrifying Problems Continue to Plague the Meat IndustryCoronavirus cases at meatpacking facilities have skyrocketed.
By Chris Crowley
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food politics
By Chris Crowley
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New York Bodega Owners Prepare to Fight Plastic-Bag BanLawyers representing 14,000 bodegas are asking a judge to delay the law.
By Chris Crowley
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food politics
By Chris Crowley
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Watch AOC Talk BECs and Bartending in the BronxThe House representative spends a day with Desus and Mero.
By Nikita Richardson
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food politics
A Brooklyn Bakery Is Sending Cakes to 53 Republican Senators TodayNew York’s own Butter & Scotch is asking lawmakers to let former national security adviser John Bolton testify in the ongoing impeachment trial.
By Nikita Richardson
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food politics
By Chris Crowley
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environmental concerns
New York State May Ban Foam ContainersGovernor Cuomo wants to eighty-six them.
By Chris Crowley
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Foie Gras May Be Cruel. It’s Definitely Irrelevant.A restaurant critic on the waning days of a luxury ingredient.
By Adam Platt
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factory farming
A New Report Details Just How Dangerous America’s Meat Industry Has Become“Pretty much every other day a worker is sent to the hospital or loses a body part.”
By Marissa Conrad
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make your preparations now
Are You Ready for the Cheesepocalypse?European cheese might soon cost twice as much in America. Here’s everything you need to know.
By Patrick Kelly
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food politics
Eric Trump Walks Into a Bar — and an Employee Spits on HimThe president’s son says he got more than he bargained for at the Aviary in Chicago.
By Nikita Richardson
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renegade ingredeints
Why Do Foods Get Banned?How seemingly random, extremely complicated rules prevent you from eating the food you want.
By Clint Rainey
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food politics
Restaurateur Apologizes After Saying He’d Ban MAGA HatsJ. Kenji López-Alt tweeted that anyone wearing the hat to his popular Wursthall would not be served — and then reversed the short-lived policy.
By Nikita Richardson
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How Restaurants Help, and Empower, Their Employees to Vote“If I want people to vote, I have to enable them to vote.”
By Priya Krishna
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food politics
Mitch McConnell Is the Latest Politician to Get Heckled at a RestaurantA group of men confronted the politician while he was eating dinner with his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao.
By Nikita Richardson
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The Quest to Create the Next QuinoaCan Americans be convinced to eat ancient foods they’ve never heard of?
By Clint Rainey
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food politics
Meet the Politician Fighting for Your Favorite Street FoodThe Democratic nominee from Queens wants the city and state to do more for these small businesses.
By Chris Crowley
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food politics
By Nikita Richardson
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food politics
Venezuelans Are Protesting Salt Bae’s Miami SteakhouseProtests come a few days after embattled Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro ate at Salt Bae’s restaurant in Istanbul while his own citizens starve.
By Nikita Richardson
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food politics
Turns Out Joe Biden Is a Good Tipper, TooThe former VP left a hefty tip at a Chicago restaurant this week.
By Nikita Richardson
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food politics
It Is Time for Politicians to Stop Eating Food in PublicCynthia Nixon’s cinnamon-raisin bagel with lox is just the latest reason.
By Chris Crowley
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food politics
Texas Restaurant Forced to Apologize After Posting Photo of Jeff SessionsOwners of Houston restaurant El Tiempo caught heat for sharing a post-meal photo of the attorney general on their Facebook page.
By Nikita Richardson
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Ocasio-Cortez’s Victory Is a Win for New York’s Restaurant WorkersHer platform (universal health care, a $15 minimum wage, support for the Equality Act) would address the labor issues the industry is rife with.
By Chris Crowley
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immigration
NYC Pizza Delivery Worker Detained by ICE Gets Stay of DeportationLocal restaurants also say they will stop delivering to the military base where the arrest happened.
By Hugh Merwin
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food politics
Mitt Romney’s Favorite Meat Is ‘Hot Dog’Hamburger comes in at a controversial No. 2.
By Chris Crowley
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food politics
How Trump’s Ag Secretary Helped Big Food During His First YearA new report from a major science-advocacy group lists the many ways he’s “sidelining science and favoring industry over farmers and the public.”
By Clint Rainey
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food politics
By Clint Rainey
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food politics
José Andrés Says He Begged Trump to Walk Back Anti-Mexico CommentsThe chef says he got nowhere — which is when he decided to pull the plug on a restaurant contract.
By Clint Rainey
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women who work
Ivanka to Empower Women in India, Just Not Necessarily the Women Working for HerShe has remained quiet about the working conditions of the women she employs in Asian countries.
By Amanda Arnold
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food politics
Bourdain to Critics Who Tell Chefs to Stay Out of Politics: ‘F*ck That’“Who eats? Who doesn’t eat? Who is cooking? … Who is picking the produce? Who is cutting the meat? Who is shipping the meat?”
By Chris Crowley
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health concerns
Here’s How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Undermining Food SafetyA “little-noticed” USDA plan to help trade at the cost of safety is just the latest example.
By Clint Rainey
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national anthem protests
By Clint Rainey
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labor fights
Fight for $15 Held Protests Across the Country on Labor DayFrom San Diego to Des Moines to Orlando, workers walked out.
By Chris Crowley
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health concerns
America’s Top Public-Health Official Has Shady Ties to Coca-ColaShe partnered with Coke on an anti-obesity initiative that ignored soda entirely.
By Clint Rainey
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food politics
By Clint Rainey
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the chain gang
By Clint Rainey
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The New FoodieismTo care about food now is to care about the future of this country.
By Mark Bittman
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food politics
Trump Administration Begins Dismantling Michelle Obama’s School-Lunch PoliciesUSDA Secretary Sonny Perdue believes her nutrition initiatives need a little “palatability.”
By Clint Rainey
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food politics
By Chris Crowley
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food politics
Investors Warn a ‘Liberal Agenda’ Is Killing Starbucks’s BusinessThey accuse the chain of “unwavering” support of liberal causes “to the detriment of its brand.”
By Clint Rainey
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