Cheeses are alive, and cheeses of all types are influenced by their environment. Once a cheese leaves the caves and enters the suppy chain, we need to do more than cross our fingers that it will make it to a customer in good condition. One of the responsibilites of cheesemongers...

[audio mp3="https://heritageradionetwork.org/sites/default/files/wp-uploads/2016/02/ROMAN-ITALIAN-FOOD-CULTURE.mp3"][/audio] Katie Parla, a food journalist and educator based in Rome, Italy, believes there is a shift in food culture happening throughout Italy. While modern women are working and more independent, they are also swapping traditional and beloved recipes for prepared meals from supermarkets. Mike Colameco discusses the changing...

Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love – part memoir of a journey to six continents in pursuit of delicious and endangered tastes, part investigation of the loss of biodiversity from soil to plate – tells the story of what we are losing, how we are losing...

We love cheddar cheese. But how much do we really know about this classic food? Tune in to hear Diane Stemple and Gordon Edgar discuss Gordon's new book - Cheddar: A Journey to the Heart of America's Most Iconic Cheese - and learn about what the history of one cheese...

The largest edible fruit native to the United States tastes like a cross between a banana and a mango... any guesses? This week on Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway is on the line with Andrew Moore discussing the pawpaw. Author of "Pawpaw: In Search of America’s Forgotten Fruit," Andrew...

Look in your kitchen cabinet, there's no doubt a Pyrex dish in there somewhere, whether it be a glass pie plate or the ubiquitous glass measuring cup with the red incremental markings. This year marks the 100th anniversary of Pyrex, and Linda Pelaccio is celebrating on today's episode of A...

This week on Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway is back with a new show, sitting down with Heritage Radio Network Founder Patrick Martins and Mike Edison. Co-authoring the book, "The Carnivore's Manifesto: Eating Well, Eating Responsibly, and Eating Meat," Patrick and Mike discuss the concept of 'tetoire' which is...

This week on Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway is getting into the spirit of Cider Week! Welcoming James Beard Award winner and author of the new book "Apples of Uncommon Character," Rowan Jacobsen, he and Cathy discuss that there is indeed life beyond Red Delicious, and even the Honeycrisp...

How does one begin to encapsulate the varied cuisine of Italy? On this episode of A Taste of the Past, Linda Pelaccio is joined by Associate Professor at the New School, Fabio Parasecoli. Recently, Fabio released Al Dente, a book about the history of food in Italy. Learn how a...

This week on A Taste of the Past, the subject is New York City food. Linda speaks with Andrew Smith, author of New York City: A Food Biography, about the history of food in New York City. Andrew brings us back thousands of years, and describes what the food culture...