Chef Jeremy Fox moves from vegetables to meat

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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