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Ibrahim Songne, an immigrant from Burkina Faso, opened a pizza spot called IBRIS in the Italian town of Trento. He overcame local prejudices — and now has been named to a list of the world's top 50 pizzerias.

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An African immigrant's pizza wins global raves — and overcomes Italian prejudices

8:52am January 30, 2022

by Ian Brennan

Ibrahim Songne's pizza place triumphed over local anti-immigrant sentiments — and now has earned a spot on a worldwide top 50 pizza list! To think — he didn't even like pizza when he first tried it.

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Chef Melanie Meyer opened a Korean restaurant in Mo. — and found her birth family

8:01am January 30, 2022

by Juana Summers

Juana Summers talks with Melanie Meyer, owner of the Tiny Chef restaurant in St. Louis, about how food helped connect her to her past and to her birth family in South Korea.

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Court rules Gruyère 'too generic' and U.S. companies can make the cheese

5:26am January 28, 2022

A U.S. District Court has ruled that Gruyère cheese can be made outside of the Swiss French border region –- including in the US. What does that mean for global trade?

Encore: Eat your feelings — and cook them, too, with these new catharsis cookbooks

5:08pm January 25, 2022

by Neda Ulaby

A lot has been said about the joy of cooking, but what about the fury? A host of new cookbooks right now aim to help cooks pound, grate and shred their feelings about the state of the world.

Doughnuts are sold at a Krispy Kreme store on May 05, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois.

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Dough-nate for doughnuts: Krispy Kreme says it will give blood donors a free dozen

4:00pm January 24, 2022

by Rina Torchinsky

The promotion follows an announcement from the Red Cross earlier this month that it is facing its worst blood shortage in more than a decade.

A woman drinks an alcohol-free beer during the annual "Fete de la Musique" (music day), in the courtyard of the Elysee Palace in Paris in 2018.

Non-alcoholic beers are finally good (and they're not just for Dry January)

2:06pm January 21, 2022

by Bill Chappell

Craft beer's emphasis on strong flavors has reinvented non-alcoholic beer, bringing better choices than ever to people who want new options.

French government investigators expose fraudulent vanilla pods

6:52am January 21, 2022

Vanilla is one of the world's most expensive spices — a pound of pods retails for more than $150. A multi-year probe found that only one in four vanilla pods met French government standards.

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Above: locals in Liuzhou feast on their regional specialty of snail noodles. The novelty of the dish has made it a viral sensation in China during the pandemic.

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Snail noodles go viral in China during the pandemic. But the dish is a bit ... funky

5:01pm January 18, 2022

The southern specialty — snail broth, pickled bamboo, slippery rice noodles — has taken off. "A lot of people were looking for crazy, ridiculous things to eat," says food blogger Mei Shanshan.

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How inflation affects food insecurity

5:03pm January 16, 2022

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Linda Jones, co-founder of Alabama Childhood Food Solutions, about how inflation is affecting people experiencing food insecurity in central Alabama.

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Before you open the calorie counter, consider the role of diet culture

4:55pm January 15, 2022

by Andee Tagle

Last year, half of all New Year's resolutions in the U.S. were based on fitness and nearly half were based on weight loss. NPR's Life Kit takes a look at diet culture.