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"We recognize Aunt Jemima's origins are based on a racial stereotype," parent company Quaker Foods says, announcing plans to change the brand's logo and name. Donald King/AP hide caption
Prices for baking flour and eggs have fallen, suggesting an easing in the baking craze that gripped hungry and housebound consumers in the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic. Karin Dreyer/Getty Images/Tetra Images RF hide caption
Workers line up to enter a Tyson Foods pork processing plant last month in Logansport, Ind. Some of the worst workplace coronavirus outbreaks have been in the meatpacking industry. Major meatpackers JBS USA, Smithfield Foods and Tyson have said worker safety is their highest priority. Michael Conroy/AP hide caption
Workers fillet fish seafood processing plant in Kodiak, Alaska in 2002. The industry faces an outbreak of COVID-19 just as salmon and pollack fishing seasons are ramping up. Marion Owen/AP hide caption
Safia Munye looks over the remains of her restaurant, Mama Safia's Kitchen, on Saturday. It was destroyed last week during protests in Minneapolis. Jim Urquhart for NPR hide caption
Yesenia Ortiz works at a grocery store in Greensboro, N.C. She says she wishes she would get paid more during the pandemic because of the extra level of risk to which she is exposed. Sarah Gonzalez/NPR hide caption
Questlove has written two cookbooks, and pre-pandemic, was a frequent potluck host. Michael Baca hide caption
'Food Is Social Adhesive,' So Questlove Is Hosting A Virtual Potluck
A mix of traditional and nontraditional Arabic desserts served with Turkish coffee. Eslah Attar for NPR hide caption
People load their vehicles with boxes of food at a Los Angeles Regional Food Bank earlier this month in Los Angeles. Food banks across the United States are seeing numbers and people they have never seen before amid unprecedented unemployment from the COVID-19 outbreak. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
French chef Guy Savoy poses with a face mask in the kitchen of one of his restaurants, in the Monnaie de Paris building, on Tuesday. Christophe Archambault/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Bartolomé Perez of Los Angeles has cooked at McDonald's for 30 years. He helped stage a walkout at his restaurant in April after a coworker tested positive for COVID-19. Courtesy of the Fight for $15 and a Union hide caption
A farmer leads dairy cows from the pasture to the milking barn at a creamery in Gallipolis, Ohio. The USDA launched a $3 billion plan to distribute food to families, called the Farmers to Family Food Box Program. Matthew Hatcher/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
USDA Secretary Says Despite Plant Closures, He Does Not Anticipate Food Shortages
The latest inflation data offers a snapshot of Americans' new pandemic spending habits. Prices are down for most goods and services but up sharply for groceries. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters hide caption
As sales to restaurant clients dried up, oyster farmer Peter Stein had to adapt or perish. Now, he's delivering oysters directly to individual customers — doing about 20% of his usual business. Jonathan Pearson / Flickr hide caption
Business Adapts To Deliver The World, In A Long Island Oyster, Door To Door
Large numbers of customers celebrate Mother's Day at C&C Coffee and Kitchen in Castle Rock, Colo., after the restaurant opened its dining room in defiance of state orders. Nick Puckett/via Reuters hide caption
Full Belly Farm, a 450-acre, organic farm, in California's Capay Valley northwest of Sacramento, is busier than ever trying to ramp up production to meet soaring demand. Full Belly Farm hide caption
Cooks work in the kitchen of the Paul Bocuse's restaurant "L'auberge du Pont de Collonges" on the eve of the official reopening after renovation works, on Jan. 23, in Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or near Lyon, southeastern France. Philippe Desmazes/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Michelle Lee, who has worked for Safeway for 32 years, wishes customers would be more patient about shortages. "They can't understand why they keep coming back and we don't have" items such as toilet paper, she says. Robert Lee hide caption
Tom Colicchio is a James Beard Award-winning chef and the lead judge on Bravo's Top Chef. Restaurants are "cultural centers" that provide a semblance of normalcy and connection in trying times, he says. Michael Hickey/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images hide caption
Table For None: Tom Colicchio Explains What Restaurants Need To Survive
Carolyn Mendel, a General Mills plant manager in Wellston, Ohio, says she has compared notes on workplace safety with a rival frozen food maker nearby. Courtesy of General Mills hide caption
Potatoes are processed into fries at the Mydibel processing plant in Mouscron, Belgium. Teri Schultz for NPR hide caption
Belgians Urged To Eat More Fries To Help Potato Farmers Amid Pandemic-Related Glut
Hundreds of workers tested positive for COVID-19 at a Smithfield Foods hog-processing plant in Sioux Falls, S.D. Shannon Stapleton/Reuters hide caption