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Complaints about food smells have long been used to suggest that certain people are inferior, said a food studies scholar.
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Michael Levenson
NEW YORK – It started with a comment about a graduate student’s lunch, a creamy Indian dish called palak paneer made with spinach and cheese, that he was heating in an office microwave in the anthropology department at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
“Oof, that’s pungent,” the student, Mr Aditya Prakash, recalled an administrative assistant telling him.
