Jeremy Smith is the founder and CEO of LaunchPad, a full-service strategy, branding, and broker group focused on Costco. He has spent over 35 years in strategic sales, branding, and marketing, and has worked with some of the world’s most iconic brands including Apple, Chobani, Krave Jerky, and Bob’s Red...

Host Jenna Liut is joined by Leah Garcés, President of Mercy for Animals (MFA), an organization working to construct a compassionate food system and end commercial animal agriculture. They discuss MFA’s undercover investigation into the horrific conditions of Costco’s chicken farm as profiled in New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof’s...

“We view the vegetable as our North Star,” says Noah Robbins, founder of Ark Foods. But lately, that star has been leading them in more unpredictable directions. In this episode, Robbins and Ark Foods COO Eduardo Mestre talk to host Lisa Held about how their business—which includes farming speciality vegetables...

What better way to introduce the new year than a long winded story about Coscto and The Peanuts? Tune into the season debut of Let's Get Real as Erica Wides teaches listeners about the virtues of frozen food and whole animals. Hear what she thinks you should all be doing...

Bill Marler is an accomplished personal injury lawyer and national expert on foodborne illness litigation. He began representing victims of food-borne illness in 1993, when he represented Brianne Kiner, the most seriously injured survivor of the Jack in the Box E. coli O157:H7 outbreak, resulting in her landmark $15.6 million...

J. Alfredo Gomez serves as a Director in the Natural Resources and Environment team of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). He is responsible for overseeing the team's work in environmental protection and food safety issues. His environment and food safety portfolio currently includes work in cleanup of hazardous substances...

On this installment of It's More Than Food, Michel Nischan is talking with a wealth of guests concerning the health and economic impacts of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. In the first half of the show, Michel speaks with Roland McReynolds and Roger Noonan. Roland McReynolds, an attorney, is...

We're talking food writing and coffee education on this week's installment of The Morning After. Jessie Kiefer and Jen Tullock relay an excellent "Front of House" segment, and chat with food writer, producer, and private chef Julia Turshen. Hear about Julia's recent collaboration with Gwyneth Paltrow in the form of...

On today's THE FOOD SEEN, Diana Yen, of the multidisciplinary creative studio The Jewels of NY, reveals her approach to setting the mood around a menu. Built out of a home product design background, Diana's vision of culinary arts draws from her collection of antique flatware (e.g. cornichon ejector forks)...

On this installment of It's More Than Food, Michel Nischan is talking genetically-modified crops with Scott Faber and Fred Kaufman. Scott Faber leads a team working to improve food and farm legislation, chemicals policy and a host of other issues important to EWG and its supporters. Prior to joining EWG...