Passionfruit, overlapping food crises, and what federal spending cuts mean for local food banks

• Seven years after chef Jeremy Fox released On Vegetables, he offers a cookbook with a different focus, On Meat.
• Michael Flood of the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank explains what the massive cuts to SNAP, USAID, and DOGE mean for local food assistance programs.
• Dr. Stuart Gillespie analyzes the cascade of overlapping crises impacting our food system — and he proposes solutions.
• At the farmers market, passionfruit from Carpinteria goes into an LA mole.

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The real story behind "no tax on tips" and the best vegan cheese

• Eyal Press reports on the fight to raise the minimum wage for tipped workers
• Animal and food activist Miyoko Schinner prides herself on making dairy-free butters, creams, and cheeses
• Chloe Sorvino exposes the hidden corruption and corporate greed within the meat industry
• Mike Cirone travels from See Canyon near San Luis Obispo to share his apples with farmers market shoppers.

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Going garden-to-table and how immigration raids are impacting LA's restaurant workers

• Canning evangelist Kevin West puts his home garden to work in the kitchen
• Journalist Andrew Lopez reports on how ICE raids are impacting Boyle Heights
• Rudy Espinoza shares how Inclusive Action supports communities affected by the immigration raids
• Journalist Kim Severson explores the creation of the perfect peanut
• Vannak Tan serves Cambodian-style seafood at A&J Seafood from a shack in San Pedro
• Alvaro Bautista brings dates from Mecca to the farmers market in Santa Monica

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