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Grocery Prices Are Up 33 Percent and RFK Jr. Is Making a Cooking Show
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July 31, 2026
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is launching a cooking show, reportedly titled Real Food, on the HHS website and his own YouTube page, promising meals people can prepare for under five dollars a serving. Hawk questions whether a government cooking show is a serious use of the department's platform right now, and lays out why the timing lands poorly.
The five-dollar promise runs straight into the economy. Grocery prices have climbed sharply over the past year, and Hawk points out that hitting that number while food costs keep rising is easier said than done. More pointedly, he notes this comes from a secretary who has overseen deep cuts to federal medical and cancer research funding, which makes a lighthearted recipe series feel out of step with the office.
Hawk sharpens the contrast with the day before, when the country watched Dr. Anthony Fauci testify before a Senate subcommittee. He argues the through line, from a career infectious-disease official to a health secretary rolling out a cooking show, says something about how the priorities of the nation's top health agency have shifted. He keeps the focus on the record and the moment rather than the spectacle, and asks whether this is really where the department's attention should be.
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