My colleagues and I live all across the country, and last week a tweet about butter sent us all running to our refrigerators. Did you know that the shape of butter sticks is different on the East Coast vs. the West Coast? East Coasters have long, slender sticks while the West Coast's butter is on the chubbier side. There's a whole fascinating history behind it that you can read below, plus check out the most popular recipes of 2022 and a series of must-read Voices In Food interviews to kick off Black History Month.

XO, Kristen

January's 10 most popular Instagram recipes

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'Sometimes we're not Black American enough and sometimes not Muslim enough'

Fanerra Dupree, co-owner of halal and soul food restaurant Black Nile, shares what it's really like to operate a restaurant with unique dietary restrictions.

'I want us to reclaim our culinary roots'

Matthew Raiford is a chef, author and farmer on a mission to raise awareness of the life cycle of food, especially in the African-American community. Raiford talks about why Black chefs and farmers need to take ownership of their land and pride in conserving culinary agriculture.

Imani Black is creating a global network of badass minority women in aquaculture

“Currently, women — especially women of color — are the minority in the aquaculture field. In my search for the history of women of color in commercial fishing, the stories were in the packing houses, in the shucking houses, in the processing part of fisheries, in important, but lower positions. I want to honor them by moving us out of the background to the forefront. It isn’t about creating new space for women of color in commercial fishing; it’s bringing us back home, and adding on to that space with representation, connection, and telling our stories."

East and West Coast butter is different, and we've been living a lie

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