Gemini takes over while Al is on vacation and invites her friends and food authors Kim Foster (The Meth Lunches) and Sarah Lohman (Endangered Eating, Eight Flavors) to talk about why food is important in communities, where food and food ideas come from, and what it means to use food to uplift people. In all the seriousness, there are plenty of laughs, revelry and talking over one another as they turn this week's podcast into one long conversation over the ladies' lunch.

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