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Millets!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The International Year of Millets shared the White House state dinner menu.
The White House state dinner for Indian prime minister Narendra Modi included for the first time millets as the main grain. And that caused quite a...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tupperware Party
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A classic Tupperware Party ad
One of America’s iconic plastic storage devices is still coveted in India. Sandip Roy warmly remembers Tupperware!

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 23, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mishti Mukh
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: An artist's rendition of a woman moira or sweetmaker., Credit: Sandip Roy
Kolkata is famous for its love of books. And its love for sweets. And Sandip Roy just went to Jugal's Literature Festival - the  first ever literat...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
The Chicken from Glasgow
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A Google search for chicken tikka masala, Credit: Sandip Roy
Unlike many of the people we lost in 2022 - Queen Elizabeth II, Lata Mangeshkar, Pele - Ahmed Ali Aslam might not have been a household name. But...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Kolkata's Football Fever
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A Messi birthday cake in Kolkata, Credit: Uttam Saha
India does not have a spot in World Cup football. But Kolkata, as usual, has two teams in the game.

  • Added: Nov 29, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
Future Food
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Palm grub sushi, Credit: Sandip Roy
Just last year the U.N. reported that malnutrition rose to about 768 million people. Sandip Roy wonders if the time for insects as food is upon us.

  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
A Plant By Any Other Name....
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: the McDonald's P.L.T.
Impossible, McPlant or zingers and crispers, whatever you call them they’re all big business. Sandip Roy takes a bite of plant-based meat products.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 13, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Cancel Curry
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Curry, three ways, Credit: Sandip Roy
While “curry” may be a lazy umbrella term for the thousands of Indian dishes that go by that name, Sandip considers the difficulty in cancelling it.

  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
The Flavor Equation
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Nik Sharma author of the Flavor Equation
Nik Sharma's latest book is the Flavor Equation which breaks flavor down to its component parts - from mouthfeel to aroma, even sound.

  • Added: Jun 21, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
The Sad Samosa
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Cauliflower samosas for Sandip's lunch, Credit: Sandip Roy
I am a samosa and I was meant to play a small but key role in India US diplomacy. This is my sad sad story.

  • Added: Mar 02, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Dispatches From Kolkata #304 - Ilish, ilish, ilish
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Ilish in mustard sauce, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sandip, who does not like fish, relishes his annual dish of Ilish, the prized fish of Bengal. But at what cost?

  • Added: Aug 27, 2019
  • Length: 05:57
Future Farming of America (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Southwest Virginia has seen a decline in coal and tobacco—two industries that once boomed in the region. Could hemp be a way to boost the local eco...

Bought by WCNY, KZYX, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 12
An Old Monk is dying in India!?
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Old Monk Rum
The Old Monk is dying!? Not that kind of monk, it’s a rum. Not just A rum. The iconic Indian rum. A rite of passage for Indians for the last 6 de...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
Mango Crazy
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Rare Mangoes at a festival, Credit: Sandip Roy
What we call mango in English has a hundred different names in India. Indians don’t love their mangos. They form fanatical fan clubs of different k...

Bought by WDBM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 07, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 3
A Year of Idaho Food Wrap Up
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
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Producer Guy Hand looks back on the highlights of the 12 month long project called "2011: The Year of Idaho Food."

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KISU


  • Added: Dec 31, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
Chestnuts Return to America
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Chestnuts in chestnut burrs, Credit: Guy Hand
After a blight killed most of America's chestnut trees back in the 1930s and 40s, a new industry has sprouted up using new varieties of blight-resi...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KUOW, and KISU


  • Added: Dec 17, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Raw Milk Deal: Idaho legitimizes small-scale raw-milk producers
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Amy Wincentsen of Little Bear Dairy, a raw milk dairy, with Butterscotch., Credit: Guy Hand
Every few months, it seems, TV news or amateur videographers capture another raid on a raw-milk supplier somewhere in America. In the past several ...

Bought by KLCC, Spokane Public Radio, KUOW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 6
Bagels, Bialys & Hope
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Bear's bagels, Credit: Jane Fritz
A baker brings bagels and bialys to the small, North Idaho town of Hope.

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KISU, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 3
Get Yer Goat: A new meat on American menus.
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
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Say the word “goat” and most Americans picture a horned cartoon with a taste for tin cans. But what we Americans don’t get about goat–and the rest...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KISU


  • Added: Nov 21, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Complicated World of Idaho Garlic
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
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The Northwest has several crop quarantine zones to control the spread of diseases. In southern Idaho, a quarantine zone helps protect the states l...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, WABE, Spokane Public Radio, and KISU


  • Added: Nov 12, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
Craft Brewers Hope For a Share of Local Hop Crop
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
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Many brewers consider hops to be the essence of craft beer making. Yet, in the America's hop growing epicenter, the Northwest, craft brewers often ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KUOW, and KISU


  • Added: Nov 05, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Seeking Genetic Diversity in Abandoned Apple Orchards
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Pioneer apple varieties found along the Salmon River, Credit: Guy Hand
Producer Guy Hand jet boats into Idaho's River of No Return Wilderness with a team searching for remote and abandoned pioneer-era apple orchards. T...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, Boise State Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 29, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 6
In Awe of the Pawpaw
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: A just picked pawpaw, Credit: Guy Hand
The pawpaw is America's largest native fruit. Once loved by George Washington, it's now nearly forgotten and survives today largely thanks to backy...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, Boise State Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KISU


  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
Learning to Love the Lowly Lentil
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Lentil Festival mascot, Credit: Guy Hand
A trip to the National Lentil Festival in Pullman, Washington and the lentil growing Palouse region of Washington and Idaho.

Bought by KUOW, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KISU


  • Added: Sep 10, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Second Coming of Idaho Beer Making
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
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19th Century Idaho brewers were touting the virtues of "local" beer long before the word locavore was invented. A look at Idaho brewing history an...

Bought by KUOW, Spokane Public Radio, and KISU


  • Added: Aug 13, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3