In this episode we hear from Lee Tran Lam, a freelance journalist and editor of New Voices on Food. Lee Tran has written about food for various publications, including Good Food, Gourmet Traveller, SBS Food, The Sun-Herald and The Guardian. She runs The Unbearable Lightness of Being Hungry podcast, Diversity in Food Media and presents Local Fidelity on FBi radio.

We talk about the impacts of COVID on hospitality and producers, how businesses have pivoted, food ecosystems, food media during the pandemic, racism and the need for diverse voices in food. You can find Lee Tran on Instagram, Twitter and The Unbearable Lightness of Being Hungry podcast, Diversity in Food Media on Instagram and New Voices on Food at SomeKind Press.

You can find us at onebitepod.com and @onebitepod across social media.

For full list of links please see the website: Ben Shewry; Colombo Social; Parliament on King; Neil Perry; A COVID-positive person dines at your restaurant; Food delivery Apps; Delivery driver safety; Restaurants and cafes facing mass closures without more support; Retail Trade, Aus; Changes in employment and hours worked; Restaurants surviving the coronavirus The Saturday Paper; Chef's Manifesto; Newtown Blessing Box; Eating Thai Fruit Demands Serious Effort but Delivers Sublime Reward NY Times; Aus food writers call for greater diversity of voices in wake of NY Times durian debacle; Australians love Asian food, so why doesn't it win as many awards as Italian? Colin Ho & Nicholas Jordan; The Oldest Foods on Earth; Bush Food Alliance; Chocolate on Purpose; Ahmad Hakim; Rosheen Kaul.

Music: Night Owl by Broke for Free (CC)