On this episode of How Great Cities Are Fed, Karen Karp and Ben Kerrick explore the changing realities of food waste. There has been a significant expansion in the amount of food waste since Hedden’s book was published in 1929. Today, we waste about 40% of our food in the U.S. - but the government...

On this episode of How Great Cities Are Fed, Karen Karp and Ben Kerrick explore the specifics of food retail in NYC, and how the retail environment has changed over the past century. Guests include: Tracey Deutsch, Associate Professor of History at University of Minnesota Suzanne Wasserman, Director...

On Episode 6 of How Great Cities are Fed, Karen and Ben are talking about The Middlemen. "The Middleman has occupied a prominent and generally unfavorable position in a great deal of the discussion of farm produce marketing during the past 15 years. In the minds of many he seems to be an anonymous...

On Episode 5 of How Great Cities are Fed, Karen and Ben are talking about Transportation And Terminal Handling of Perishable Food. And they're broadening this a bit to talk about transportation infrastructure and how it enables our food system.

The Final Mile: Food Systems of New York is a year-long series of public programs, organized by Open House New York as part of its ongoing Urban Systems Series. The Final Mile is intended to shed light on New York City's dynamic and multi-layered food economy while introducing and exploring...

In this episode of How Great Cities Are Fed, we're going to talk about the cold chain, which was kind of just emerging at the time that Walter Hedden wrote his book, How Great Cities Are Fed - that book, of course, is the basis and inspiration for this show.