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How MSG Hysteria Became a Chinese Food Problem

MSG was once marketed as a third seasoning for the dinner table alongside salt and pepper. Then things changed. Shellie Zhang is an artist exploring the complicated history of MSG in our culture and how this common fear actually has racialized undertones.

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