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Tejal Rao is the California restaurant critic for\xa0The New York Times\xa0and a columnist for\xa0The New York Times Magazine.\u201cI've been thinking a lot about what makes a restaurant good\u2026. Can a restaurant be good if it doesn't have wheelchair access? Can a restaurant be good if the farmers picking the tomatoes are getting sick? How much do we consider when we talk about if a restaurant is good or not? \u2026 If people are being exploited at every single point possible along the way, how good is the restaurant, really? \u2026 I worry that the pandemic has illuminated all of these issues and things are just going to keep going the way that they were.... That's what I worry about. That nothing will change.\u201d\n\nThanks to\xa0Mailchimp\xa0for sponsoring this week's episode.\n\nShow notes:\n@tejalrao\ntejalrao.com\nRao's\xa0New York Times\xa0archive\n01:00\xa0"Is My Takeout Risking Lives or Saving Restaurants?"\xa0(New York Times \u2022 Apr 2020)\n03:00\xa0Rao's\xa0Atlantic\xa0archive\n09:00\xa0Rao's\xa0Saveur\xa0archive\n13:00\xa0"For Best Results, Eat This Roti Immediately"\xa0(New York Times \u2022 Oct 2020)\n13:00\xa0"Dining and Driving on the Empty Freeways of Los Angeles"\xa0(New York Times \u2022 Mar 2020)\n14:00\xa0"A Day in the Life of a Food Vendor"\xa0(New York Times \u2022 Apr 2017)\n14:00\xa0"India\u2019s \u2018Pickle Queen\u2019 Preserves Everything, Including the Past"\xa0(New York Times \u2022 Jul 2020)\n19:00\xa0"Oysters: A Love Story"\xa0(New York Times Magazine \u2022 Aug 2017)\n26:00\xa0"I Lost My Appetite Because of Covid. This Sichuan Flavor Brought It Back."\xa0(New York Times Magazine \u2022 Jan 2021)\n30:00\xa0"The Old-School Reasons to Love Los Angeles Restaurants"\xa0(New York Times \u2022 Feb 2019)\n33:00\xa0"How Kit Kat Got Big in Japan"\xa0(New York Times Magazine \u2022 Oct 2018)\n43:00\xa0"Meatpacking Companies Dismissed Years of Warnings but Now Say Nobody Could Have Prepared for COVID-19"\xa0(Michael Grabell and Bernice Yeung \u2022 ProPublica \u2022 Aug 2020)\nIllustration by\xa0Tony Millionaire\n\n\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices