Judith Wicks, who owns the White Dog Café in Philadelphia, routinely takes customers and employees to Nicaragua, Vietnam, Russia, Cuba, even the ghettos of her own city, because, she said, “If we want world peace, we need real relationships with real people.” She nicknamed the program Eating with the Enemy. “I think the problems of the world could be solved if people understood we’re all connected. They’d take better care of each other,” she told me. “People are literally transformed on these tours.”
