Podcast: COVID-19 Dispatches #1

We’re thrilled to be back with a new series of podcasts produced in collaboration with Meant To Be Eaten on Heritage Radio Network. In this series, we focus on our upcoming issue 20.3, entirely dedicated to dispatches from the food world in reaction to the first months of the pandemic. Listen to issue editor Bob Valgenti talk to Stephen Meinster about his article, “The Sickness Unto Hospitality”, which describes the unique capabilities of the hospitality industry to respond swiftly in crises – as he (as General Manager of a Chicago establishment) and many of his colleagues were forced to do – and about how things have unfolded since the piece was written in April 2020.

Issue 20.3 will be available online and in print in late August. If you want to be notified when the issue is available, please sign up for an alert (or simply follow us on social media). The University of California Press is offering a 30% discount on purchases of single print issues, which can be redeemed using the offer code GASTROAUG2020 (offer valid through June 2021).