What is the social value of a daytime street market? In this episode, sociologist Ellen Meiser talks with Gastronomica’s Dan Bender about the meaning and value of Taiwan’s caishichang. Drawing on her early memories of these vegetable street markets and her participant observations of the same lively streets in the...

Today's show is all about food waste reduction efforts across the Midwest. Our first guest, Jennifer Trent, is the Food, Beverage, and Organics Program Manager at the Iowa Waste Reduction Center, and has been involved in the field of food waste and sustainability practices for over a decade. Then we...

Find out how she's creating a living legacy for her late husband, Chef Floyd Cardoz on Inside Julia's Kitchen.

Meet Christine Sahadi Whelan, Culinary Director and fourth-generation Co-Owner of the iconic Sahadi’s in Brooklyn.

Author and chef Fany Gerson illuminates the many regional variations of Mexican sweets.

Our long time friend Sean McGuiness stops by the show to talk about his new spot, The Garden Bar at The Puck. He tells us about the inspiration to bring it to life, creating a new community and stocking it with Pennsylvania provisions. Then we dig into the archives for...

On today's episode, Zarela and Aarón are thrilled to welcome Chef Rodolfo Castallanos to talk about how traditional Mexican foodways are being reinterpreted in the contemporary Mexican culinary scene. Rodolfo starts by sharing his cooking philosophy - beginning with inspiration from the seasons and culminating in his return home to...

RAW Wine Creator Isabelle Legeron, MW hosts Marc Barriot (Clot de l'Origine), Megan Bell (Margins Wine), Didier Pariente (Nomadic Distribution), and Alvaro de la Viña (Selections de la Viña), as the group discusses the current challenges to wine producers around the world. The panel covers everything from the costs of...

Coming up on this episode, we are celebrating the ethnic and cultural diversity that makes the food of the American Midwest unique. In Champlain, Illinois, we meet Alex Sentowski and Jennifer Gunji-Ballsrud, the founders of Suzu, a Japanese bakery brings a traditional Japanese menu to a Midwest college town. Then...

How sweet it is! Mexican regulations allow up to 1% of your tequila to be additives, the four most common being sugar-based syrup, glycerin, oak extract, and caramel coloring. Purists get outraged by this — it’s cheating! But we’re far more interested in what this means from a health standpoint...