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    Fake shrimp, coming to a marketplace near you

    In April, we devoted an entire show to seafood . After our broadcast, the Associated Press team responsible for the jaw-dropping “Seafood From Slaves” series we discussed on the show won a Pulitzer for Public Service. We continue to have sustainable shrimp on the brain.

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    By Evan Kleiman • Jul 15, 2016 • 1 min read

    In April, we devoted an entire show to seafood. After our broadcast, the Associated Press team responsible for the jaw-dropping “Seafood From Slaves” series we discussed on the show won a Pulitzer for Public Service. We continue to have sustainable shrimp on the brain. So we reached out to Olga Khazan, a staff writer at The Atlantic, to learn about a startup she covered, New Wave Foods, which is producing synthetic shrimp that never once wriggled in the ocean.

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      Evan Kleiman

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      Laryl Garcia

      Senior Director, Good Food

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      Abbie Fentress Swanson

      Independent reporter and producer

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      Camellia Tse

      Producer, Good Food

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      Olga Khazan

      staff writer at The Atlantic

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    The full episode

    4 of 5
    Preserving Green Book sites, shishitos, jackfruit, fake shrimp
    1. 0:30Preserving Green Book sites
    2. 18:29A primer on Fijian cuisine and jackfruit
    3. 30:34Drop it like it’s hot
    4. 38:33Fake shrimp, coming to a marketplace near youYou’re reading this
    5. 49:58California retro cuisine gets a facelift at Paley
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