Chava found a letter from Hernán Cortés to Carlos V from 1520, and now we're pretty sure that everyone who claims pulque was only for royalty is wrong, the word "maguey" is cultural appropriation, and corn syrup is part of Mexico's cultural heritage. It's a what-happens-when-Chava-goes-academic episode of Agave Road...

Buenlimón está de vuelta, con una serie especial – ¡Y bilingüe! Hemos colaborado con un grupo de estudiantes, diseñadores de Parsons School of Design. Estos cinco estudiantes tomaron la clase Emigrant Food Futures, con el profesor Alonso Castro, también diseñador. En esta mini-series exploramos los proyectos que abordan los problemas...

Sandra Velasquez is the Founder of Distro 101, a class focused on the nitty, gritty skills of grocery sales, distribution and merchandising. She is also the NYC Area Sales Manager for Van Leeuwen Ice Cream and National Sales rep for HiBAR, the plastic-free hair care brand. On this episode of...

Professor of History at Yale University, Paul Freedman, is also the author of Ten Restaurants that Changed America (W.W. Norton, 2016). We discuss the ten selected restaurants, and how each restaurant reveals a wider story of race and class, immigration and assimilation in America. Meant To Be Eaten is powered...

Chef Tunde Wey is the man behind some of the most controversial pop ups in America and uses dining to make diners confront the uncomfortable realities of race, class, privilege and wealth in America. He’s a chef and writer, but before he’s any of those things he’s a proud Nigerian...

Host Cathy Erway is joined in the studio by Ruby Tandoh, author of the new book Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want. Eat Up is filled with sympathetic advice on everything from mental health to recipe ideas and baking tips. She dives into these issues and more...

Folklore has long explored food as a core component of life, linked to identity, aesthetics, and community and connecting individuals to larger contexts of history, culture and power. It recognizes that we gather together to eat, define class, gender, and race by food production, preparation, and consumption, celebrate holidays and...

Fuhmentaboudit is getting cheesy this week as author and natural cheesemaker David Asher is on the line with Chris and Mary. Talking about what constitutes natural cheesemaking as well as other items that David regularly ferments, he explains that a popular item he produces is kefir: a traditional yogurt culture...

This week on The Farm Report, host Erin Fairbanks welcomes Courtney Epton, Director of Education at City Growers to the program. City Growers connects urban communities with agriculture, food and environment through farm education and advocacy in order to foster a culture of health and sustainability. The organization highlights its...

On today's "Book Review" edition of Cutting the Curd, host Diane Stemple reviews "One Hour Cheese" by Claudia Lucero, owner of Urban Cheesecraft - a DIY cheesemaking company. With 16 recipes for making cheese in under an hour - from "creamy and spreadable" to "firm and chewy" to "melty and...