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Let's Talk About Food

Because everyone has a food story. From our first mouthful of applesauce in front of​ ​our adoring family, to our first bite into a jalapeño pepper, and everything in between, food is at the heart of the human experience. We love it. We need it. Food is family and ritual. Fun and work. Sophistication and guilty pleasure, scarcity and overabundance. Food makes us ecstatic and sometimes crazy. Food delights and disappoints. Can you think of a connector that binds us together more universally or seamlessly than our shared relationships with food? That’s what we do in this podcast: Share entertaining, evocative, celebratory, complicated and funny food stories. 

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Produced by Rachel Gotbaum

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Louisa Kasdon

Louisa Kasdon has done it all. Owned restaurants and closed three restaurants. (She calls herself a restaurant industry dropout.). Been an editor and written over 500 published articles and columns on food, and on food people. Created hundreds of large and small-scale public events to engage the community around all aspects of food. For the past 10 years she has been listening to and recording hundreds of people’s food stories. At outdoor festivals, in small rooms, on street corners and in major museums. Why? Because when someone shares a food story with you, you open the window into their truest, most honest self.  Louisa lives in Boston, and is a graduate of Wellesley College, MIT and the Wharton School. But she admits that what she does every day uses absolutely nothing she learned in school, other than punctuation and spelling. 

Latest Episodes

Chef Michel Nischan on Food, Fairness and the Future

Episode 27, Aired: September 24, 2021

Michel Nischan grew up working on his grandparent’s farm in Missouri and developed a deep appreciation for sustainable agriculture and those who work the land. His passion for healthful cooking supported by a local sustainable food system propelled Michel to the front of the culinary scene. Michel...

Chef Michel Nischan on Breakthrough Covid and Being a Good Neighbor

Episode 26, Aired: September 23, 2021

In mid-Summer, although fully vaccinated, Michel and his wife Laurie got Breakthrough Covid after a business trip to Nashville. We had to postpone our original conversation, but when we did connect, Michel shared his experience with us. We were moved. And think you will be too. Tune in for more from...

Governor Deval Patrick Talks Food

Episode 25, Aired: August 2, 2021

Former Massachusetts Governor, Deval Patrick, is a major foodie. But you might not know that if you simply focused on his remarkable biography. Raised on the South Side of Chicago in tough circumstances, scholarship to a New England boarding school, graduate of Harvard and Harvard Law School, a...

Sara Baer-Sinnott & Oldways

Episode 24, Aired: July 26, 2021

Sara Baer-Sinnott is the President of Oldways, a nonprofit focused on improving public health through cultural food traditions and lifestyles. If you think you haven’t heard of Oldways, you are wrong. Oldways’ tentacles touch almost everything you think about food today. It was the organization that...

Hidden Gem at the General Store

Episode 23, Aired: July 19, 2021

One of the great pleasures of collecting people's stories is that they often surprise you. You discover a gem just by asking a question, like how did you get come to food? Today, we talk to Megan Fales. Megan runs a perfect General Store called Anchor & Sail in the center of the seacoast village...

How do you learn to Love Food?

Episode 22, Aired: July 12, 2021

This week we share two "food love origin stories". One from Celeste Croxton-Tate, a cook, author, and Boston Police officer. And one from me, because I too had to learn to love food. Photo Courtesy of LyndigoSpice.com If you count on HRN content, become a monthly sustaining donor at...