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Back to EpisodesWhat Happens When a Restaurant Has No Prices? Plus, the Local Dinner Series Run by Grandmas
Description
A Twin Cities dinner series is turning immigrant home cooking into radical acts of storytelling. Mecca Bos, founder of BIPOC Foodways Alliance and creator of the Immigrant Kitchen dinner series, joins to talk about why grandmas and aunties are the real culinary experts, plus a new print zine called Matriarch. Then, Dylan Alverson, owner of Post Modern Times, shares what seven months of serving 30,000 free meals taught him about poverty, dignity, and why the most psychotic business plan he ever ran might have saved his restaurant.
Learn more about the topics discussed in today's episode:
Post Modern Times’ promise of free meals may have been too good to last (Star Tribune)
I couldn't make my restaurant's numbers work. So I took prices off the menu. (Business Insider)
We Have a 'Zine! (BIPOC Foodways with Mecca Bos)
Immigrant Kitchen by BIPOC Foodways
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