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    Food creates common ground

    What we eat, and how we do it, binds humans across wildly different geographies and cultures. Lucky Peach co-founder Chris Ying  is a firm believer that food shows us what we truly have in common, from flatbread to fried chicken.

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    By Evan Kleiman • Feb 15, 2019 • 1 min read

    What we eat, and how we do it, binds humans across wildly different geographies and cultures.Lucky Peach co-founder Chris Yingis a firm believer that food shows us what we truly have in common, from flatbread to fried chicken. It’s the premise of a volume of essays he edited called “You and I Eat the Same,” named one of the best food books of 2018 by the New Yorker and The Guardian.

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    Viet cooking made simple, Ritz & Escoffier, and goat cheese
    1. 0:00Vietnamese cooking expert Andrea Nguyen goes simple
    2. 14:30Food creates common groundYou’re reading this
    3. 27:04Ritz, Escoffier, and the rise of the luxury hotel
    4. 39:44Patricia Escárcega visits the NoMad Hotel in DTLA
    5. 47:42Market Report: Goat Cheese
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      Evan Kleiman

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    The full episode

    2 of 5
    Viet cooking made simple, Ritz & Escoffier, and goat cheese
    1. 0:00Vietnamese cooking expert Andrea Nguyen goes simple
    2. 14:30Food creates common groundYou’re reading this
    3. 27:04Ritz, Escoffier, and the rise of the luxury hotel
    4. 39:44Patricia Escárcega visits the NoMad Hotel in DTLA
    5. 47:42Market Report: Goat Cheese
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