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You can make restaurant-quality pho at home. You just gotta believe in yourself, and also fuel up on dozens of sesame balls.
Modern Asian Kitchen
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Music: Wassup Pham - Sabzi
Sources:
Modernist Cuisine
The Fresh Loaf
A Taste of History
Reddit
VolleyTalk
Wall Street Journal
Journal of Chinese Literature
The Sino-Platonic Papers
Classical Chinese Poems in English

The resident food stylist at America's Test Kitchen on the history of boxes of chocolate ... and where she might find Lupin.
Food Gifts: 150 Irresistible Recipes for Crafting Personalized Presents
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Chocolate
Eggnog
Fika, Sweden's Obsession
Christmas Candy
Breadlines & Famines
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Music: Place Vendôme - Mathieu Lamboley
Sources:
Food52
Russell Stover
Baker’s Coconut on Gutenberg.org
Pensacola News Journal
The Montgomery Advertiser
The Bangor Daily News
Press and Sun-Bulletin
The Crowley Post-Signal

A dish I had absolutely never heard of before.
Related Episode: Diversity in Native American Food with Loretta Barrett Oden
Corn Dance: Inspired First American Cuisine
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Music: Une Noix - Charles Trenet
Sources:
Cherokee Cooklore
Serious Eats
Slow Food USA
USDA
MPR News
BBC
USDA Agricultural Research Service

Do I drink it? Yes. Am I a sovereign citizen? Depends on my mood.
(Written version here.)
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Music: Freedom! '90 - George Michael
Sources (I over-researched this one. I may or may not have used info from every source here, but I figured I'd include them all to be safe.):
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/17/garden/salmonella-outbreak-is-traced.html
https://gidmk.substack.com/p/raw-milk-literally-kills-people?utm_source=arnoldspumpclub.schwarzenegger.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=how-to-elevate-your-mind
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5443421/
https://www.fda.gov/media/140394/download
https://www.nourishwithkristin.com/blog/raw-milk-history
https://foodpolicyforthought.com/2014/05/06/the-history-of-raw-milk-and-pasteurization/
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history-science-science-everywhere-you-asked/who-first-suggested-milk-be-pasteurized-make-it-safer-consumption
https://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/as/as-612-w.pdf
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/10/25/onions-salmonella-recall/
https://www.tiktok.com/@paulsaladinomd2/video/7151475682936245550?q=raw%20milk&t=1697747104293
https://www.tiktok.com/@healthanie/video/7271751825215343914?q=raw%20milk&t=1697747104293
https://www.tiktok.com/@sammyllacey/video/7239126493102738734?q=raw%20milk&t=1697747104293 lies
https://www.capitalpress.com/state/oregon/oregon-scraps-cafo-waiver-for-personal-raw-milk-production/article_3dd027a6-2c08-11ee-87c3-cfdb4af4b5a4.html
https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1026&context=healthmatrix
http://extension.msstate.edu/publications/differences-between-organic-and-conventional-cow%E2%80%99s-milk#:~:text=Dairy%20farms%20that%20sell%20milk,not%20treated%20with%20supplemental%20hormones.
https://www.latimes.com/business/la-xpm-2011-aug-04-la-fi-milk-raid-20110804-story.html
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/04/30/raw-deal
https://la.eater.com/2022/11/29/23483129/secret-mexican-ranch-parties-pajaretes-raw-milk-cocktails-los-angeles-california-feature
https://www.cheeseprofessor.com/blog/buffalo-milk-and-cheese-in-america
https://www.mariasbulacansweets.com/product-page/carabao-s-milk-limited-availability
https://morseyscreamery.com/
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/02/20/387558373/why-some-states-want-to-legalize-raw-milk-sales
https://www.givesendgo.com/G3NZH
https://www.thelancasterpatriot.com/amos-miller-seeks-compromise-on-farm-case-as-tucker-carlson-takes-up-his-struggle/
https://getrawmilk.com/content/amos-miller-food-club-charges
https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/embattled-amish-farmers-saga-with-usda-becomes-grist-for-conservative-media/article_ad97b98e-2630-11ed-bf68-172014e8a0c1.html
https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/lancaster-county-farmer-amos-miller-makes-30-000-payment-under-agreement-with-feds/article_50afdfe2-8ba9-11ed-9017-83da128dccdc.html
https://www.thefp.com/p/raw-milk/comments#comment-11807602
https://www.rawmilkinstitute.org/updates/letter-to-medical-professionals-about-raw-milk#:~:text=Raw%20milk%20has%20superior%20nutrition,immune%20system%20and%20gastrointestinal%20tract 
https://www.fda.gov/media/140394/download
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history-science-science-everywhere-you-asked/who-first-suggested-milk-be-pasteurized-make-it-safer-consumption
https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2023/Q4/dry-surface-foodborne-pathogens-under-scrutiny-at-purdue.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/16/dining/food-marketing-ozempic-era.html

Soul rolls and other culinary smash ups; should legacy publications stay in their lane; activists who are not empaths.
Related episode: Meat raffles and Snickers salads with Ben Mandelker
IG: Black Food Fridays
TikTok: Black Food Fridays
Citizen Better
Can Food Be Political?
Who Made the Potato Salad
YakaMein
Ramen by Ra
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Music: Can You Help Me - Jesse Johnson
Sources:
Charleston Magazine
Washington Post, 2
James Beard Foundation
Trademark Office
Refrigerated Frozen Food
Salon
Soul Food Scholar, 2
Chicago Reader
Roanoke Times
Medill News Service
Waterloo Region Record

Kitsch versus camp and the politics of quiche.
The Man Who Ate Too Much 
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Coconut shrimp with Julia Loken 
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Music: Quiche Lorraine - The B-52s 
Sources: 
John Birdsall 1,2 
Gastronomica 
Slate 
Eater 
Atlas Obscura