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Inadvertently, this episode is all about food \\u2013 where it comes from, where we eat it, and how it shapes national identity. Our discussion on food and design starts in Los Angeles, where\\xa0Norm\'s Restaurant recently received "historic and cultural" landmark status, and a\\xa0tamale-shaped building\\xa0strives for the same (just one of LA\'s many proud programmatic architectures). Shifting east, we extol the multi-uses and virtues of Waffle House, and praise the Waffle House index. This dovetailed across the Atlantic into our interview with\\xa0James Biber of\\xa0Biber Architects\\xa0about his design for the US Pavilion at the Milan EXPO, entitled "American Food 2.0: United to Feed the Planet". We ask him about balancing corporate and national identities in food, and what it\'s like having the US State Department as a client.\\xa0