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The Switchyard Food Issue was published with this biannual literary publication from the University of Tulsa. Featured in this issue was an essay by Top Chef co-host Tom Colicchio on food policy; Theodore Ross’s in-depth interview with Sean Sherman, chef and coowner of Owamni restaurant in Minneapolis, whose cookbook The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen won a James Beard Award in 2018; an investigative feature by Dan Charles about pesticides and the threat to pollinators, which will also be featured in an episode of our upcoming podcast series; and two deeply personal narratives on the social and political issues bound up in food by Siddartha Deb and Jori Lewis. The issue was nominated for a National Magazine Award and two James Beard Awards, winning one.
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“The ranching industry’s toxic grass problem” by Robert Langellier, published with Grist. America’s “fescue belt,” named for an exotic grass called tall fescue that dominates the region’s pastureland, runs from Missouri and Arkansas to the coast of North and South Carolina. It stays green all winter, allowing cows to graze year round. But the fescue these cows are eating is toxic and causes illness, fever, and severe discomfort in the animals. At long last, scientists and farmers are attacking the problem from different angles to end the scourge of toxic grass once and for all.
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“Trump said Democrats would take away your hamburgers. He’s the one who might.” was published with The New York Times. FERN Senior Editor Ted Genoways unpacks the history of how meat companies have used vulnerable workers as a source of labor, and what it would mean if the latest such population — recent immigrants, many of them refugees and asylum seekers — were forced out of the country in large numbers.
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