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  • Echoing Ida

Inside the U.S.’s First Cannabis Cafe

America’s first cannabis cafe, a place where you can get high and eat at the same time, has opened in L.A. Here’s everything you need to know.

  • Echoing Ida

Jazmin Urrea Builds Monumental Cheetos Sculpture in South L.A.

“I wanted you to feel surrounded and almost kind of minimal to highlight…that this is the food that’s being pushed towards us and our community, and what’s sold in convenience stores, liquor stores, and what’s readily accessible.”

  • Echoing Ida

On eating watermelon in front of white people: “I’m not as free as I thought”

Racism has a powerful, sneaky way of inflicting shame.

  • Echoing Ida

My Mother’s Very Specific Meat-Related Rule for Finding Love

Grandma Daniels rejected the idea that women should get less of anything: whether education, respect, or protein.

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How can I eat local when winter vegetables are so sad?

Virtuous eating dictates that I stick with produce grown within a certain radius from my house. But I just can’t get excited about root vegetables.

  • Echoing Ida

The Hermit Cookie: A Reclusive Recipe from America’s Archives

“This will keep for months, if out of humanity’s reach, hence, perhaps their name.”

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When Comics and Cooking Meet: Robin Ha and “Cook Korean!”

For her new book “Cook Korean!” (Ten Speed Press, $19.99), Ha developed and and illustrated about 70 recipes from the Korean peninsula.

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