Dig into lunch with Michael’s ideas for stepping up what’s in your brown bag. Lunch doesn’t have to be boring - fresh fruit, salads, soups and even a little white wine can be on the menu according to The Shameless Chef.

On this week's episode of Meat and Three, we are heading back to school. This year, the first day at school looks a lot different. From daycares to universities, every institution is operating under a different model – and that includes their plans for how students will eat.

Host Jenna Liut interviews author Jennifer E.

Ahoy summertime snack fiends!

On today’s episode of THE FOOD SEEN, let’s call Olivia Mack McCool the “lunch lady”, but she’s not your atypical vision of someone manning steam tables and scooping slop onto plastic trays in a cafeteria.

[audio mp3="https://heritageradionetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/japanese-luches.mp3"][/audio] Food service directors double as teachers in Japanese schools. Filmmaker Atsuko Quirk and journalist Nancy Matsumoto join host Laura Stanley to describe the emphasis on food education in Japanese schools on episode 59 of Inside School Lunch.   Listen to the full episode here.

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In 1967, four-thousand Jews fled from Libya, each with one suitcase and the equivalent of $50; half of them settled in Rome.

When the kitchen is always on the movie, how do you feed one of the biggest bands in the world?  Today on Feast Yr Ears, host Harry Rosenblum is on the line with Fiona Bohane, touring chef for the Dave Matthews Band.

A "Juicy Lucy" burger stuffed with Reese's, a missing cat drunk on Riesling, and a Hello Kitty food truck: welcome to this week's The Morning After!  In studio with Chef Flynn McGarry, the whiz kid of the NYC pop up restaurant Eureka, Jessie and Sari get Flynn's story -