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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...
Bought by KCBX
- 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 ...
Bought by KCBX
- 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
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...
Bought by KCBX
- 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 ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 15, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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...
Bought by KCBX
- 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
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
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...
Bought by KCBX
- 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
As founder of One World Everybody Eats, Denise Cerreta is determined to change the way restaurants do business and to bring delicious, healthful fo...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 20:58
- Purchases: 1
Food Sovereignty is the fight for farmworker justice, sustainable practices, food accessibility and land reform. Although the idea is relatively ne...
- Added: Aug 13, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
Increasingly, food-based businesses are seen as key solutions to solve our social and environmental problems, and yet entrepreneurs report a surpri...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jul 23, 2013
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 1
This first part of this half-hour is spent with author and professor Philip Ackerman-Leist. In his new book, he shows that people are turning to lo...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KCBX
- Added: Apr 04, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
In the last five years the world has seen two devastating spikes in the price of food, and according to journalist and professor Frederick Kaufman,...
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
Preview "Here on Earth," Wisconsin Public Radio's international talk program and podcast. In this edition, find out why farmers are turning to fai...
Bought by KXOT Public Radio and WBEZ
- Added: Dec 19, 2006
- Length: 52:34
- Purchases: 2
