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“Where there’s flavor, there’s history:” Educator, Author, and Filmmaker Dr. Zella Palmer discusses her work in preserving the legacy of African-Am...
- Added: Nov 19, 2023
- Length: 28:40
It’s no coincident that our planet is on fire. Look more closely and you’ll find that our society, politics and bodies mirror the world. We, too, a...
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- Added: Aug 22, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The average American consumes more than 234-pounds of meat every year. That’s chicken, beef, pork, turkey, veal, lamb, and fish. That may not even ...
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- Added: Nov 02, 2021
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
How can breaking bread—or injera—together make a place home?
How one kitchen disaster led the team at Shelter in Place podcast through the Eritrea...
- Added: May 19, 2021
- Length: 37:21
Regenerative agriculture is more than a human-centered enterprise: it means working with nature and alongside other creatures, to accomplish larger...
- Added: Apr 20, 2021
- Length: 12:04
There is a vast network of hundreds food banks across. Along with those are more than 60-thousand hunger-relief organizations: food pantries and me...
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- Added: Mar 02, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Thousands of new chemicals have been developed and released into the global environment during the last four decades. Yet, most of those chemicals ...
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- Added: Dec 15, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
There’s a man in a small city thirty miles south of Richmond Virginia whose business was pretty much wiped out by the Coronavirus pandemic. But des...
- Added: Apr 14, 2020
- Length: 12:26
Although he wasn’t a professional musician, the name Irving Mills is stamped on the entire music scene in “The City of Lights.” Leader of the Hots...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jul 19, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
The village of Mals, Italy is on the eastern Swiss boarder in the shadow of the Alps. It’s been known as the breadbasket of the Tyrol. Recently, th...
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- Added: Feb 13, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Award-winning author and cook Rae Eighmey marries food with history to create culinary biographies of Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Franklin.
- Added: Jul 21, 2017
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
It’s called “colony collapse disorder” or CCD.
A number of years ago US beekeeping operations realized they lost between 30 and 90 percent of their...
- Added: Nov 09, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
In his book, Street Farm, Michael Ableman shares the inspirational stories about the people in one of the worst urban slums in North America: Vanco...
- Added: Oct 25, 2016
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
Chef, restaurateur, and author Marcus Samuelsson’s dazzlingly creative approach to food and to hospitality is rooted in a deep appreciation of food...
- Added: Oct 25, 2016
- Length: 26:45
- Purchases: 2
Food Waste, hunger, inhumane livestock conditions, disappearing fish stocks … just a few of the serious issues we have with our food supply.
We exp...
- Added: Oct 11, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
This is a sampling of the women who performed on Broadway and recorded studio sessions in the 1920s.
Bought by WJCT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WNMU-FM, WGTE Public Media, WCPN and more
- Added: Mar 03, 2016
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 9
This audio documentary was produced by Sarah El Safty for the audio production course at The American University in Cairo in Cairo, Egypt.
It is ...
- Added: Dec 30, 2015
- Length: 06:59
We live in an era of big problems, and we tend to spend our time thinking of big solutions. Thinking big, however, can have a paralyzing effect on ...
- Added: Nov 19, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
As fruits go, the pawpaw is about as unique, historically important, yet mysteriously undervalued as it gets.
- Added: Oct 15, 2015
- Length: 24:18
- Purchases: 2
Butchering your own meat has become, for lack of a better word, kinda trendy. But it's also a basic survival skill that dates back to the stone age.
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Dec 10, 2014
- Length: 26:07
- Purchases: 1
Livestock, especially cattle, are Public Enemy Number One. That’s been the perceived wisdom for decades. It’s thought that cattle erode soils, poll...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Our reliance on industrial agriculture has resulted in a food supply riddled with hidden environmental, economic and health care costs and beset by...
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- Added: Sep 30, 2014
- Length: 19:11
- Purchases: 1
No one needs to eat livestock to survive, according to Dr. Brian Moench. Yet meat is almost universally the focus of the Western diet. The average...
- Added: Sep 10, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Destination DIY producer Jaymee Cuti goes to "bee school" to learn what's new in the 4,000 year old hobby of beekeeping.
- Added: Feb 18, 2014
- Length: 21:46
- Purchases: 2
As founder of One World Everybody Eats, Denise Cerreta is determined to change the way restaurants do business and to bring delicious, healthful fo...
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- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 20:58
- Purchases: 1
