Katherine Miller on how chefs can help shape our food system
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\\u201cThere\\u2019s a restaurant on almost every street in our various cities\\u2013they are woven into the fabrics of our communities, and they are deeply embedded in our lives.\\xa0 Restaurants are the places we go to celebrate marriages, to mourn divorces, the places we go to gossip with friends to celebrate after church and they become these places to hear the stories of their community. They\\u2019re talking to the farmers everyday, they\\u2019re talking to the fisherpeople everyday, they\\u2019re talking to the other producers, they\\u2019re also getting a sense of what\\u2019s challenging about their lives or what\\u2019s opportunities within their lives and they hear the everyday concerns of their customers. So they become these great collectors of stories.\\u201d
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\\nThis week on the show, a conversation with Katherine Miller. She\\u2019s the author of At the Table:The Chef\\u2019s Guide to Advocacy. She encourages chefs to harness the power of their unique position in the community and raise their voices for change in the food system.