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Meat and Three

Find Your Own Food: An Introduction to Foraging

There are edible plants all around us, but without an expert, you shouldn’t go tasting random bushes. 
Time For Lunch

Seeds!

This week on Time For Lunch, we are going back to our roots to learn about the source of all plant life: seeds! Special guest Shannie McCabe of Baker Creek Seeds teaches us about the importance of having a colorful assortment on your plate and much more. Plus, as always, this episode is chock full of fun facts, jokes, and music. 

Pizza Quest

Mike Kurtz, The Hot Honey King

Another Paulie Gee success spinoff, Mike Kurtz was making pizzas for Paulie in Greenpoint when he showed off the hot honey he'd been developing at home and, before you could blink, Paulie started using it on some of the pizzas, and Mike ramped up production.

Eat Your Heartland Out

Community Pantries, Fridges and Ovens: Helping Feed Communities Through Mutual Aid in the Midwest

In this episode, we explore how community fridges, pantries and even ovens are helping address food insecurity across the Midwest. These concepts have popped up in larger cities on the coasts, but are also present in cities and towns big and small in the Midwest. Unsurprisingly, Chicago is leading the way on community fridges.
Why Food?

Preeti Mistry: Activist Chef

Join us for a conversation with Preeti Mistry, acclaimed chef, author and speaker and two time-nominatee by the James Beard Foundation for Best Chef of the West. They were the Co-Founder & Executive Chef of Navi Kitchen and Juhu Beach Club (both closed) as well as the co-author (with Sarah Henry) of The Juhu Beach Club Cookbook.

A Taste of the Past

The Arabesque Table

Like the intricate pattern of intersecting lines of an ornamental Arabesque pattern, so are the roots of the Arab cuisine intertwined.
Inside Julia's Kitchen

Meet Matthew Raiford

This week on Inside Julia’s Kitchen, host Todd Schulkin welcomes CheFarmer Matthew Raiford of Gilliard Farms in Brunswick, Georgia. They discuss Matthew returning to his roots on his family farm and his new Gullah Geechee cookbook, Bress ‘n’ Nyam. Plus, Matthew shares his Julia Moment. 

 

All in the Industry ®️

Ellen Yin, High Street Hospitality Group

On today's episode of All in the Industry®, Shari Bayer's guest is Ellen Yin, Co-Founder and Owner of High Street Hospitality Group (HSHG).

The Speakeasy

Moonshine and Rainbows

Aubrey Slater and David Suk of Saint Luna spirits regale the band with tales of launching a brand, working in the world of spirits as members of the LGBTQ community and good ol’ fashioned Moonshinin’! 

Processing

Africa Yoon “Kimchi”

On this week's episode we welcome the wonderful Africa Yoon.  Africa is known for her monumental running feats from New York to Chicago and Milan to Cannes.  She is also a writer, and her new book the “The Korean: Single and Obese: Then Kimchi Changed Everything!”, details how she lost 110lbs eating Korean and vegan food in one year.
The Farm Report

A Local Food App Created For and by Farmers

Lindsey Lusher Shute began working on the concept for GrownBy during her time at the National Young Farmers Coalition, because young farmers expressed a need for better technology that could help them sell their food.

The Grape Nation

Jaimee Motley, Jaimee Motley Wines and Stony Hil Vineyards.

After growing up around a restaurant family and finishing college in Maryland, Jaimee headed west to pursue the arts. Jobs at Locanda and RN74 in SF changed her course, where she found her love for wine.

Beer Sessions Radio (TM)

Dogfish Head Shocking News: Nut Milk on the Radio!

This week on Beer Sessions Radio, Jimmy is learning all about Dogfish Head. On the show is Sam and Mariah Calagione, Co-founders of Dogfish Head in Milton, DE and Andrew Greeley, Inn Keeper at Dogfish Inn in Lewes, Delaware. 

Back Bar

Bitter Sweet

An Italian favorite and the curious intersection of bitter times with bitter flavors. 
Agave Road Trip

There’s Something about Kendall Jenner in a Huipil

When Kendall Jenner released 818 Tequila, social-media caught fire. It seemed to make a bunch of bartenders mad. Then she appeared on Instagram wearing a huipil and the phrase “cultural appropriation” started to get thrown around. But … for years now, Chava has been begging me to wear one of those traditional Mexican garments. So if I had, would I have been appropriating that culture?
The Feedfeed

What's For Dinner? Pierce Abernathy joins the show to talk about his passion for cooking, especially dips!

In this episode, Feedfeed Food Editor Alexa Santos virtually sits down to dinner with Pierce Abernathy, @pierceabernathy on Instagram, and @pierzza on TikTok. Pierce is a recipe developer and content creator making gorgeous recipes that highlight the use of plants.

Life's a Banquet

TEA for 2- Part two of our TEAisode!

So you made it through part 1 of our TEASTRAVAGANZA. Congratulations, and welcome to part deux! We hope you brought some cream and some hottttt gossip! This week we talk hard tea, and the worst party in history, The Boston Tea Party. So get yourself some Smooth Move and toss it all into the ocean, it’s Life’s a Banquet the podcast!
Tech Bites

Rooftop Reds: Brooklyn's Solar-Powered Rooftop Vineyard

Would you guess that the Brooklyn navy yard is the location of the world’s first commercially viable urban rooftop vineyard? With the help of Finger Lakes industry leaders and Cornell University, Rooftop Reds has developed a custom urban planter system. 42 of these planters cover the 14,800 square-foot rooftop at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

In the Sauce

Building Like an Olympian

Nona Lim is the Founder and CEO of Nona Lim, everyone’s favorite fresh Asian broths, noodles and stir fry kits.

What Doesn't Kill You

The Climate Bill even Big Ag Loves

Mother Jones ag correspondent Tom Philpott deconstructs the boondoggle that is the new "climate bill" beloved by all who pollute. Dubbed "GROWING CLIMATE SOLUTIONS", this bill makes people like Joni Ernst and the good people of the National Pork Producers Council rub their legs together like crickets. How can this be good?
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