ALEX MAYYASI, author of Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces That Shape Your Life (W. W. Norton & Company), is the host of the new podcast Gastronomics, which dives into the business of food, and a longtime contributor to NPR’s Planet Money. His writing has been published in The Atlantic, Smithsonian Magazine, and The Washington Post. A former editor of Priceonomics, he launched the Gastro Obscura website, which won two James Beard Awards, and published the New York Times bestselling book of the same name.
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