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Beyond Craft Brew
From: Margaret Hedderman
Series: Startup Colorado
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Has Colorado reached "peak beer?" Our state may be known for its ales, but there's something new fermenting in the mountains. In this episode, we g...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2021
  • Length: 36:08
Third Grade Audio Podcast #2: Lakeview Pantry
From: David Green
Series: Third Grade Audio - Service Learning Podcasts
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The third graders of "Third Grade Audio" made two Service Learning podcasts. Each one is about a social service organization which is working to he...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 1
Makers Series 6: Cacao Hunters
From: Slow Melt Productions
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Cacao Hunters was founded in 2013 by Carlos Ignacio Velasco and Mayumi Ogata and is based in Popayán, Colombia. The company is dedicated to finding...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: 39:06
Makers Series 1: SOMA Chocolatemaker
From: Slow Melt Productions
Series: The Slow Melt: A Podcast About Chocolate
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SOMA Chocolatemaker was founded in 2003 by David Castellan and Cynthia Leung and is based in Toronto, Canada. The company has since grown to two st...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 37:48
Episode 9: Your Chocolate is Probably African
From: Slow Melt Productions
Series: The Slow Melt: A Podcast About Chocolate
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There is no chocolate industry without Africa. African cocoa is bountiful and painful, cyclical and dynamic. In this episode, we get two snapshots ...

  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 42:08
Episode 8: The Deep Origin
From: Slow Melt Productions
Series: The Slow Melt: A Podcast About Chocolate
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Cacao was born in a bean-shaped area in the upper Amazon and is believed to have been grown and used—first, as a drink—in countries that now encomp...

  • Added: May 05, 2017
  • Length: 24:01
Episode 5: Eat With Your Ears (And More)
From: Slow Melt Productions
Series: The Slow Melt: A Podcast About Chocolate
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Episode 5 — Sensory overload! We explore how taste, touch, sight, smell and sound influence how we experience chocolate. With a soundtrack designed...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Mar 22, 2017
  • Length: 24:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mountain Rose Winery: A Story to Be Proud Of
From: WMMT
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Wise County was once one of the largest apple growing areas in Virginia, but that industry declined as many orchard lands were mined. The Lawson f...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 10:58
Farming Creativity
From: Rendered
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Getting back to the kind of robust, regional food system that used to be the norm in America definitely requires some creative thinking.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 23, 2015
  • Length: 16:18
  • Purchases: 1
The history behind White Castle building #8
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Jess Mador goes behind the scenes of a familiar fast food landmark: White Castle building #8.

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 04:05
The weed that saved Minnesota
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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In 1857, economic hardship left farmers and other citizens bust. Looking for a way to earn money Minnesotans took to the forests to harvest ginseng...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 04:39
An Ethiopian coffee ceremony right here in the Twin Cities
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Ethiopia is said to be the birthplace of coffee, and this aromatic elixir continues to be an important part its culture. KFAI’s Allison Herrera met...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 05:29
In The Big Easy, Food Vendors Create A Little Honduras
From: Laine Kaplan-Levenson
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Thanks to a quirk of history — and a love of bananas — New Orleans has had a Honduran population for more than a century. But that population explo...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2014
  • Length: 12:42
Pass the lefse, please
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Ask someone from out of state to describe Minnesota and you’ll probably hear a lot of “Minnesota Nice,” "uff dah’s" and "you betcha’s." Scandinavia...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1
Military Food - Is it healthy?
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Elements by Open Orchard Productions
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Military food has come a long way since the canned rations of World War I. However, has the overall quality of nourishment or taste necessarily imp...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 03, 2014
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 1
A Bunch of Boats in the Boatyard
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Organizing the Maine Lobstering Union

Bought by WMPG and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 06:59
  • Purchases: 2
Chef Vivian Howard
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Chef Vivian Howard, Credit: Tanner Latham
Vivian Howard is the chef at Chef and the Farmer in the small Eastern North Carolina town of Kinston. She also "co-stars" with her husband Ben Knig...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Jul 01, 2014
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 2
To Eat a Pig, Pt. 1
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Journalist Sean Kelley, Credit: Tanner Latham
Sean Kelley is a journalist, and in this show, he begins telling us about raising a couple of pigs so that he could slaughter them and eat them and...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2014
  • Length: 13:29
  • Purchases: 2
Delivery
From: Teresa Goff
Series: The Grease Trails
Caption: Ooligan fish
Teresa Goff has been following an ancient network of trails used by the coastal First Nations to trade gleetna, or grease. Gleetna is made from ool...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 13:21
The Newest New South
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Historian Tom Hanchett at a booth at El Pulgarcito. , Credit: Tanner Latham
Charlotte, North Carolina-based historian Tom Hanchett speaks about the ever-evolving South, especially as it relates to food, from a booth in El P...

Bought by Troy Public Radio and Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Mar 09, 2014
  • Length: 17:54
  • Purchases: 2
The Challenge of Crafting Ice Wine in Minnesota
From: Radio K
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The German “eiswein” tradition was created almost by accident. This sweet, powerful wine was discovered when winemakers tried to save grapes that f...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2012
  • Length: 05:05
Chopsticks - Made in America
From: Philip Graitcer
Caption: Chopsticks: Made in Georgia
Coals to Newcastle: Chopsticks made in Georgia are being exported to China

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 09, 2011
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 1
Child Obesity - Part Three - Spreading the Lifestyle
From: Karen Brown
Series: Child Obesity -- A Community's Response
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Families in the low-income community of Holyoke, MA -- who successfully lost weight through a community clinic program -- are trying to share their...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Iowa Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 16, 2010
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 4
Child Obesity - Part Two - Kihuanna's Story
From: Karen Brown
Series: Child Obesity -- A Community's Response
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This feature profiles a 9-year-old girl named Kihuanna who, at 4 foot one and 139 pounds, has a body mass index twice what it should be. With the h...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Iowa Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 16, 2010
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 4
The Backyard Chicken Invasion
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Backyard Chickens, Credit: Photo by Guy Hand
The dramatic increase in interest in raising backyard or urban chickens and the cultural implications.

Bought by Boise State Public Radio and KVNF


  • Added: Jul 07, 2010
  • Length: 07:56
  • Purchases: 2