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From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

An exploration of delectable foods and the people who make them: pho, Italian grandmothers' pasta, and preserved sourdough.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP

Constant Wonder - Labor Day 2021

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

Topic: How Beef Changed America

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WPCA-LP, KUHF, and WYAP

Episode 151: The Many Lives of Michael Malloy

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

In 1932, a group of men in a speakeasy in New York City hatched a plan — to take out life insurance on a loner named Michael Malloy, and make his d...

Butter vs. Margarine

From: Distillations
Series: Distillations

One of America's most bizarre food battles

Bought by PRX Remix

The Southern Story of Coca Cola (Gravy Ep. 51)

From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast

You might think of Coca Cola as an iconic American brand… but it was born in the South. How did Coke’s Atlanta birthplace shape what the soft drink...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and KVLU

Schnitzel and the Saturn V (Gravy Ep. 42)

From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast

How did Huntsville, Alabama become home to a whole host of German restaurants? It has more to do with rocket science, than with Southerners’ love o...

Bought by KVLU

Food Sleuth Radio, Garrett Broad Interview

From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio

Did you know that J. Edgar Hoover expressed concerns over the Black Panthers’ empowering community food programs? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer

Tuna became the 'go to' fish because it was cheap and plentiful. we look at the pitch for tuna.

From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments

Joanna Solotaroff looks at the emotional connection with tuna, created by marketting. .

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Fighting for the Promised Land: A Story of Farming and Racism (Gravy Ep. 29)

From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast

Caption: Shirley Sherrod on the porch of the antebellum mansion at Resora Plantation , Credit: Photo by Tina Antolini.

Shirley Sherrod’s introduction to the intermingling of agriculture and racism came when she was 17 years old, with an incident that changed the cou...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WJCT, WABE, and KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA

Pilgrim Fathers: How the Thanksgiving We Know and Love was Manufactured

From: Hold That Thought

Historian Mark Valeri examines the truths about the first Thanksgiving and the myths of American identity we have created around the event.

Bought by 'The Sea'

A-dressing a Mystery

From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites

Caption: Cartograph by Ruth Taylor White, for the Hawaii Tourist Bureau, circa 1930. , Credit: Via the University of Oregon’s Knight Library.

Scholar and chef Ben Davison helps the Guys answer a burning question: What’s the origin of Thousand Island dressing, anyway? This piece comes from...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and WABE

Break Me Off A Piece of That...

From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites

Caption: Toward Los Angeles, Calif., by Dorothea Lange, 1937., Credit: Library of Congress

Composer Michael Levine, who wrote the long-running Kit-Kat jingle, tells host Brian Balogh what makes a jingle powerful — and catchy. Then… he off...

Bought by PRX Remix

Meatless Moralism

From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites

Ed sits down with historian Adam Shprintzen to discuss the 19th-century Americans who saw a vegetarian diet as a powerful tool of moral reform, one...

Bought by XRAY.fm and PRX Remix

Calming the System

From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites

Caption: Student nurses being trained in nutrition, New York, 1942 – photographed by Fritz Henle

Ed talks with Pomona College English professor Kyla Wazana Tompkins about the austere diet created by Sylvester Graham, designed to ward off a new ...

Bought by Troy Public Radio

Lactose Intolerance Genetics

From: Susanne Bard

Caption: The practice of cheesemaking goes back many centuries in various cultures around the world. (A page from the 14th century Medieval handbook Taccuino Sanitatis from the Biblioteca Casanatense in Rome, Italy)

Central Europeans developed a dairying culture at least 4,000 years before they evolved the ability to digest milk.

Bought by KMXT

The Inside Scoop on Serving at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

From: Rebecca Sheir

Caption: Alan DeValerio was a White House butler for Presidents Carter and Reagan., Credit: Alan DeValerio

"The Butler" didn't do it - or so says real-life White House butler Alan DeValerio.

Remembering a Vanished Way of Life on Virginia's Barrier Islands

From: Rebecca Sheir

Caption: The southern end of Hog Island was once home to the thriving community of Broadwater., Credit: Rebecca Sheir

Many generations of people once lived and worked on Virginia's barrier islands — until erosion and hurricanes drove them back to the mainland.

Sweet Talk: A History of Sugar

From: BackStory with the American History Guys

Caption: "Sugar - save it!" Detail from U.S. Food Administration poster, c1917 , Credit: U.S. National Archives

Valentine’s Day is around the corner, and that means candy, chocolate, cakes – all the sweet stuff for your sweetheart! It’s just one of the ways s...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WUFT, WMUU-LP, WRPI, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more

Three Squares: Mealtime in America [rebroadcast]

From: BackStory with the American History Guys

Caption: Dinner at Broad Channel, in Queens, New York City, c1910, Credit: Library of Congress

As families across the United States sit down for their Thanksgiving meal, this episode of BackStory explores the meals we eat for the rest of the ...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WRGY, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio

PROMO - Three Squares: Mealtime in America [rebroadcast]

From: BackStory with the American History Guys

30-second promo for BackStory episode, "Three Squares: Mealtime in America [rebroadcast]," with 5-second music bed at end for station-specific time...

Food Sleuth Radio, Donald Davis Interview

From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio

Bigger doesn’t always mean better. Case in point: fruits and vegetables. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn...

The Jane Fonda

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Reporter Jake Ryan follows the rabbit hole to uncover the truth behind a sandwich and a controversy that's been around since the Vietnam War.

Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio

Injera Bread & Shark Meat: Tasting Ethiopia & Jamaica

From: Rebecca Sheir
Series: Soundbites: A Series On Food

Caption: At RAS, you can order Caribbean food (like the Bake and Shark, left) or Ethiopian cuisine (like the vegetarian platter, right)., Credit: Rebecca Sheir

What happens when Africa and the Caribbean culinarily collide in the U.S. capital? Dig in and find out!

First Peoples of the Duwamish

From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Life on the Duwamish: Rediscovering Seattle's Dirty South

Life on the Duwamish, Segment 2

Bought by KLCC and The Nature Podcast

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