On today’s episode of THE FOOD SEEN, Ahmed Abouelenein, CEO of The Halal Guys, and son of one of the co-founder, ushers in a new era of their Egyptian American entrepreneurial success story. The Halal Guys started selling chicken, beef gyros and falafels from a single street cart at 53rd...

Food trucks announcing "halal" proliferate in many urban areas but how many non-Muslims know what this means, other than cheap lunch? Middle Eastern historians Febe Armanios and Boğaç Ergene provide an accessible introduction to halal (permissible) food in the Islamic tradition, exploring what halal food means to Muslims and how...

Tune in as Feast Yr Ears kicks off its second season! Guest Kathryn Mahoney has been an aid/relief worker for more than a decade, from Sudan to Haiti she has lived in the places most of us just read about, during many of the hardest disasters the world has seen...

Nothing Urgent is celebrating the holiday with some talk about the NYPD, Brooklyn, and guitar shredding! Harry Siegel, editorial columnist and writer for the New York Daily News, joins the program to talk about his article regarding police transparency in New York City. Tune in to hear Derek Evers, Christopher...

Culinary horticulturist Scott D. Appell returns to We Dig Plants to talk about the botanical effects of the Crusades! Alice Marcus-Krieg and Carmen Devito talk with Scott from his home in Puerto Rico about the ornamental and edible plants that were introduced to Europe and beyond after the Crusades. Hear...

Is Ray Kelly's secret police spying on your neighbors? This week on Nothing Urgent, Derek Evers and Christopher Robbins are discussing the NYPD and some of their anti-terrorism tactics that unfairly target Muslims. Joining Derek and Chris in the studio is Ryan Devereaux, reporter for The Guardian. Hear about Commissioner...

Derek Evers and Christopher Robbins are delving into the black market on this week's installment of Nothing Urgent! Tune in to hear Derek and Chris talk with Andy Greenberg, author of This Machine Kills Secrets and writer for Forbes, about buying drugs on the Internet. Learn about The Silk Road...

On this episode of Summer of Food, The LongHouse Scholars visit the studio to talk about their month long experience in Rensselaerville, New York at the LongHouse Internship Program, as they explore the Saffron Diaspora through media. The LongHouse Internship Program is a food media laboratory designed to give six...

Alice Feiring, is an essayist, fiction and wine writer, writing professionally since 1988. She is the winner of both the James Beard and Louis Roederer Wine Writing Awards and in 2013 she was named Imbibe Magazine's wine person of the year. Her blog, The Feiring Line (Alicefeiring.com) has been operational...

On today's THE FOOD SEEN, photographer Penny De Los Santos has been contributing insight into our world's food traditions through her lens. Seen in National Geographic and Saveur magazines, her images speak for themselves (her powerful TEDx talk speaks volumes as well). Traveling to over 30 countries on assignment, from...