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Listen to restaurant staffers recount the pandemic’s toll on Extra Spicy’s season premiere [San Francisco Chronicle]
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After a short vacation from podcasting, we’re back with season two of Extra Spicy. Emboldened by having one season already behind us, we’ve thrown some of our wildest ideas onto the table. While Justin and I will still include coverage of restaurants and the people who work in them, as noted by today’s episode on the “restaurant apocalypse,” season two’s guests are people who can talk your ears off about why foraging for wild juneberries is a political act; why San Francisco’s Chinatown is an essential part of the city’s fabric; and why yogurt for men (Brogurt!) exists.
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Punjab Restaurant on 24th Street is closed due to coronavirus shelter in place edict in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, March 30, 2020.Scott Strazzante / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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After a short vacation from podcasting, we’re back with season two of Extra Spicy. Emboldened by having one season already behind us, we’ve thrown some of our wildest ideas onto the table. While Justin and I will still include coverage of restaurants and the people who work in them, as noted by today’s episode on the “restaurant apocalypse,” season two’s guests are people who can talk your ears off about why foraging for wild juneberries is a political act; why San Francisco’s Chinatown is an essential part of the city’s fabric; and why yogur
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Construction on the Keystone XL pipeline has helped keep Emily Lai’s small family restaurant alive during months of COVID-19 lockdowns. The 90′s Restaurant, on Main Street in Oyen, Alta., has stayed afloat by serving takeout to hundreds of tradespeople who temporarily moved to the area to work on the project.
But now that the TC Energy Corp. pipeline has been halted, she said she and her husband are more anxious about the future of the Chinese and Western cuisine restaurant they have owned for nearly a decade.