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Stateside Podcast: Notes from a Black woman food critic

Ryan Garza, Detroit Free Press

Lyndsay Green is a dining and restaurant critic for the Detroit Free Press, and the first Black person at the publication to hold that role. She finds that a lot of people in the restaurant world don’t expect to see her.

Green recently commemorated her first year at the Free Press by writing about her year in review. The essay, which documents her experience in the food industry as a 4’10” Black woman critic, went viral. She joined us to share the ups and downs of her past year in the Detroit food scene, plus what the fine line between anonymity and invisibility reveals about upscale dining and our culture more broadly.

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  • Lyndsay Green, dining and restaurant critic, Detroit Free Press

Support for arts and culture coverage on Stateside comes in part from Michigan's Arts and Culture Council.

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Ellie Katz joined the Stateside team as an intern in September 2022.
Ronia Cabansag is a producer for Stateside. She comes to Michigan Public from Eastern Michigan University, where she earned a BS in Media Studies & Journalism and English Linguistics with a minor in Computer Science.