The first great food book of 2021 is about race, restaurants and unlikely friendship

What we can all learn from Mashama Bailey and John Morisano's "Black, White, and the Grey"
Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • January 23, 2021
When the Grey opened in Savannah, Ga., late in 2014, the national food media instantly latched onto the restaurant’s unlikely origin story: New York venture capitalist and first-time restaurateur John O. Morisano purchased a once-grand former...
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