Abena Offeh-Gyimah is a writer, a researcher, a business owner, and an advocate for an indigenous food sovereignty system.

This week on Meat + Three, meet four of our HRN Hall of Fame inductees. They’re all growers and makers doing tireless and delicious work to cultivate good, clean, and fair food.

Ever since the sizzling news about Chinese tariffs on pork dropped, we knew we'd have to do a Meat + Three episode about pork.

This episode of Week in Review reviews a dizzying breadth of content from the past week! We hear from a 17-year-old food rapper, a Food Studies professor at NYU, and the master of acorn toilet fermentation.

[audio mp3="https://heritageradionetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Good-Food-Awards-Intro.mp3"][/audio] Carlo Petrini, father of the International Slow Food movement, addressed the Good Food Award nominees after being introduced by Alice Waters and Patrick Martins. Carlo Petrini reminds the nominees that their work is more important than simply producing food; they are improving their communities and thus the entire world. Carlo Petrini is translated by Sarah Weiner, Director of the Good Food Awards.

Tuesday December 10th is Terra Madre Day, a day that celebrates local food and raises awareness about endangered products.

This week on the business of The Business, Tony award winning actress Cady Huffman comes into the studio for an interesting take on the business side of food television. Although Cady is an actress first, she has also been a regular judge on Iron Chef America for 10 seasons on The Food Network.

This week on the business of The Business, we welcome the founder of the Heritage Radio Network, Heritage Foods USA, and Slow Food USA, Patrick Martins.

This week on The Speakeasy, we celebrate the eve of America's birthday by talking about barbecue, bikes, and the history of America's food industry with Dan Lyle, owner of The Shop in Brooklyn.