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Dish City
When a city changes, you can feel it in its local food culture. As the pandemic spread across the U.S., local restaurants closed or adapted, with many relying heavily on takeout and delivery...
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Listen to Dish City, a Arts podcast by WAMU 88.5. Stream 38 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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Fried Fish
Crispy golden filets of whiting, croaker, or catfish on white bread are sold all over the D.C. region at small carryouts. For years, fried f...
Little Saigon & Eden Center
The center of Northern Virginia’s thriving Vietnamese community is Eden Center in Falls Church. It’s the biggest Vietnamese commercial cente...
Stuffed Ham
Stuffed ham: IYKYK This hyper-local delicacy from southern Maryland has been a part of life in St. Mary’s County for generations. But, unles...
A Chinatown In Name Only
D.C.’s Chinatown has all the hits. A giant archway. Dragons painted on the streets. Chinese characters in its storefronts. But…where are all...
Maryland Blue Crabs
Blue crabs are messy, time-consuming, and expensive to harvest and eat. And yet, no summer on the Chesapeake Bay is complete without a crab...
The Old Bay Obsession
Old Bay is everywhere in the Chesapeake Bay region. It’s on chips, popcorn, ice cream, beer, and even chocolate. You can even find the brand...
Carryouts
Asian carryouts are longtime fixtures of D.C.’s Black neighborhoods. Where else can you get a quintessential order of chicken wings and mamb...
Trailer: Dish City Is Back
We’re back! After covering the pandemic’s effect on food delivery and our local restaurant scene, Dish City is dining out again. Behind ever...
Solutions Mode
There are problems with food delivery. There's the reliance on gig laborers who say they are underpaid. Restaurants have to pay high commiss...
Gig Work: The Fine Print Of Food Delivery
"Quick sign up! Flexible hours! Be your own boss!" The perks of gig work are well-known, but do they actually reflect the reality of drivers...
The Rise And Farce Of Third-Party Delivery Apps
DoorDash started a decade after its competitors, but now controls half of the food delivery market in the U.S. What can we learn from the ve...
How Big Pizza And Big Tech Made Hot Delivery Possible
In the '60s, delivering pizzas meant wrapping hot pies in a blanket or driving them to customers over open flames. With those humble (and, u...
How American Chinese Food Became Delivery Food
On a cold November night in 1976, a New York City restaurateur named Misa Chang started sliding delivery menus under her neighbors’ doors fo...
Why Is Delivery A Thing?
When you really think about it, delivering food from restaurants to homes is kind of strange. Nothing about the process saves money and it d...
Introducing Dish City’s Delivery Season
On a new season of Dish City, hosts Patrick Fort and Ruth Tam discover how food delivery became normal in America and ponder if it actually...
The Foodie With No Taste
Most people who contract coronavirus recover, but we still don't know much about the lingering side effects – including the loss of taste an...
Winter Is…You Know
As Game of Thrones nerds can tell you, "winter is coming" is more than a seasonal weather forecast –it's a warning. With that in mind, what...
The Restaurant From The Future
What does the future hold for restaurants? To predict what a restaurant in 2022 will look like, Patrick and Ruth time travel to see what les...
It’s Fall, Eat A Mooncake
Now that fall is here, Patrick is enjoying his cozy flannel shirts and crisp pumpkin beers. But for Ruth, entering this season is bitterswee...
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