Bakersfield Punjabi cooking for truckers - NYT article

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Tejal Rao of the NYTimes is certainly covering interesting places! This one is on a truck stop that holds a Punjabi food truck offering a taste of home cooking for the many Punjabis who have entered the freight delivery industry.

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A Taste of Home for California’s Punjabi Truck Drivers

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Maybe Tejal Rao was inspired by these articles in the LA Times from June, 2019:

https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-col1-sikh-truckers-20190627-htmlstory.html?utm_source=Essential+California&utm_campaign=b233239547-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6e35f7f85b-b233239547-79502381

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How funny!

I would have missed the LA Times articles, I think they have a paywall now? I seem to recall I ran up against it a couple of times. I have a subscription to the NYT so my access is unlimited on that one.

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The LA Times has some limited free options and I think that I got 3 months for free. They have ramped up their food section and Soleil and Birdsall have contributed articles. I expect that their Punjabi truckdriver articles will be nominated for a James Beard or other award.

If I see a good LA Times article, I usually post it in the Food Media section of Hungry Onion.

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