How does environmental change and water scarcity affect heritage crops? In this episode, Holly Brause discusses her newly published ethnographic research on the chile industry in southern New Mexico. In conversation with Paula Johnson of the Gastronomica Editorial Collective, Holly connects the local effects of climate change and drought to...

A roundtable conversation on water, drawing connections between place, taste, and social justice.

This episode offers a sneak peek behind the scenes at Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies. Lisa Haushofer hosts a roundtable live from the 2021 Food Studies conference, Just Food: Because It Is Never Just Food. Editors from the Gastronomica editorial collective – Amy Trubek, Paula Johnson, and Daniel Bender...

This episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Paula Johnson. V. Constanza Ocampo-Raeder explores human-nature relationships through the social life of camarones, a Peruvian river crustacean. Drawing together stories of landscape, labor and gastronomic revival...

This week's episode showcases the culinary traditions of Scandinavian, Germanic and Northern European immigrants into the American Midwest. Paula Johnson, Curator at the Smithsonian Museum of American History, discusses the flavors of Scandinavia throughout the upper Midwest. Kyle Cherek, food historian and former host of the PBS show Wisconsin Foodie...

On this week’s episode of Inside Julia’s Kitchen, host Todd Schulkin speaks to Paula Johnson, Curator, Division of Work Industry, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. As the Museum’s go-to expert on American food and wine history, Paula discusses the their latest food history programming and shares what it...