Let's Talk About Food
80 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsBecause everyone has a food story. From our first mouthful of applesauce in front of our adoring family, to our first bite into a jalapeño pepper, and everything in between, food is at the heart of the human experience. We love it. We need it. Food is family and ritual. Fun and work. Sophistication and guilty pleasure, scarcity and overabundance. Food makes us ecstatic and sometimes crazy. Food delights and disappoints. Can you think of a connector that binds us together more universally or seamlessly than our shared relationships with food? That’s what we do in this podcast: Share entertaining, evocative, celebratory, complicated and funny food stories.
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Phoebe Lapine: Healthy Hedonism
April 25, 2024 17:00 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBWriter, chef, and mega blogger Phoebe Lapine’s new book CARBIVORE is a paean to the joys and the nerdy science of carbs. She trashes the no-carb revolution and replaces it with easy-to-digest science -- and wonderful to ingest -- recipes that work whether you are a yes-on-carb or no-on-carbs freak. After her own challenging health issues, Phoebe studied herself and how her diet affected her body, her moods, and her well-being. Who knew normal people would wear a continuous glucose monitor ju...
Greg Drescher, Certified Food Visionary
April 05, 2024 14:00 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBSome people – rare people – have the knack of seeing the curves of the future and inviting the rest of us on the journey. Greg Drescher, the senior advisor for Strategic Initiatives at the CIA, Culinary Institute of America, is one of those people. A more insightful job title would be culinary visionary. Our conversation was fascinating as he traces his career arc from one insightful peak to another. You’ll enjoy the journey. Let’s have a listen. Let’s Talk About Food is Powered by Simpleca...
What is Legacy Agriculture Anyway?
March 14, 2024 21:30 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MBOur guest today is Scott Grabau, CEO of Tanimura & Antle, one of the world’s largest produce growers. I know, the phrase “large produce” stops you, passionate as you are about buying local and supporting Farmer’s Markets. But what if it turns out that large “Legacy Agriculture” has deep expertise to share? And what if a company that farms thousands of acres, ships to across the US as well as Asia and Europe––is also passionate about maintaining sustainable farming practices, and laser-focuse...
Ciao Italia's Mary Ann Esposito: The Longest Running Cooking Show in America
February 15, 2024 16:00 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBMary Ann Esposito is a legend. She is the star of Ciao Italia, a PBS show she produces in New Hampshire. Syndicated nationally for 31 years, it's the longest running cooking show in America. She has written over a dozen books focused on Italian regional cooking, and at 81, she still leads cooking tours to Italy. Fascinating, feisty, and down-to-earth, I just love her. Let's have a listen. Photo courtesy of John W. Hession. Let’s Talk About Food is Powered by Simplecast.
Michael Crupain's Wild Journey: From Neurosurgery, to Dr. Oz, to Cookbooks!
January 25, 2024 16:00 - 37 minutes - 34 MBMichael Crupain is an MD, an MPH, a passionate wellness advocate, and a terrific cook. When we first met, Michael was at Consumer Reports, which he then left to become the medical director of the Dr. Oz show (wow!). And now after 7 years there, he's writing fabulous cookbooks! Photo courtesy of Michael Crupain. Let’s Talk About Food is Powered by Simplecast.
A Real Corker: Anthropologist Corky White Dishes on Food!
November 09, 2023 21:00 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBOur guest today is Corky White, Professor of Anthropology at Boston University. Although her focus is on Japan, Corky has a deep and fascinating focus on food – both as an academic pursuit and as globe-trotting food lover. Today’s episode is just that. A global trot through Corky’s life, food, culture, and the impact of her own heritage on why food is so fascinating. Her newest book, written with her son, historian Ben Wurgaft, is "Ways of Eating." We’ll get to that too – and stay tuned to l...
Veggie Queen
November 02, 2023 16:00 - 29 minutes - 27.5 MBOur guest today is one of my favorite members of the culinary elite: Martha Rose Shulman, an award-winning author of more than twenty-five cookbooks, including The Simple Art of Vegetarian Cooking, The Very Best of Recipes for Health, Mediterranean Harvest: Vegetarian Recipes from the World’s Healthiest Cuisine (named one of the 6 best vegetarian cookbooks of the last 25 years by Cooking Light Magazine), Mediterranean Light, Provençal Light, and Entertaining Light. For eight years she wrote ...
Barton Seaver: Seafood Evangelist
October 13, 2023 15:00 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBWe talk -- or mostly listen -- to the remarkable Barton Seaver; recovering chef, prodigious advocate of all things seafood, TED talk alum, author of landmark books on American seafood (my favorite is For Cod & Country), and quite possibly the most eloquent speaker we've ever met! Photo courtesy of Barton Seaver. Let’s Talk About Food is Powered by Simplecast.
Mark Erickson, Provost of the CIA
July 07, 2023 14:30 - 36 minutes - 33 MBA 14 year old Minnesota boy wanted a motorcycle. He got a job as a dishwasher and it launched a stellar culinary career. We talked with Mark about himself, his outlook on the future of restaurants, and where the CIA is headed next. Photo courtesy of Mark Erickson. Let’s Talk About Food is Powered by Simplecast.
Can an Algorithm Become Besties With a Farm-to-You Home Delivery Service?
June 15, 2023 18:30 - 38 minutes - 34.8 MBHave you ever wondered how a food delivery business gets going? All the logistics, and the headaches and uncertainty of matching farmers to food and the fresh food to your home? Erin Baumgartner is the CEO and Founder of The Family Dinner. While working as the Assistant Director of the Senseable City Lab at MIT, she left her job after a drink with her husband in a local bar made her believe that her back-of-the-cocktail napkin idea was worth betting on. Since then, she has received so many a...
Greens Under Glass: How Paul Sellew is Re-Inventing Your Salad Bowl
April 28, 2023 22:00 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBPaul Sellew is the Founder and CEO of Little Leaf Farms. His "farm" occupies massive greenhouses in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and he expects that by 2026, he'll have 100 acres "under glass" and be able to offer sustainable crisp salad greens to over 50% of the American salad eating world. We'll all be crushing on Little Leaf's hydroponic and sunshine nourished salad greens. He's not the only one who believes in his success: Superstar Bono and his RISE Fund recently made a $300 million d...
Hello Earth Day! And What Should I Do About My Beloved 8-Burner Gas Stove?
April 17, 2023 17:00 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBA Conversation with Frank Lowenstein of RARE. Rare is the largest non-profit you've never heard of, and for 50 years it has been focused on using Behavioral Change to nudge people towards Sustainability all over the world. Now, RARE comes to the US. Frank, a lifelong environmentalist, talks about what we can do at the individual level to mitigate climate change. Photo courtesy of Frank Lowenstein. Let’s Talk About Food is Powered by Simplecast.
Filmmaker Joanna James: A FIne Line Revisited
March 24, 2023 19:00 - 37 minutes - 33.9 MBJoanna James is a filmmaker, non-profit founder, mom of three girls, and the daughter of Val James, who against all odds created a successful restaurant company. Joanna’s film entitled "A Fine Line" documents her mother’s struggles, and those of other well-known female chef-owners in the restaurant industry. It tells the story of the barriers, financial and personal, that women face in the food business. When I first saw the film, I understood it as a love letter to her mom. The film created...
A Tarot Reader Walked into a Bar...
March 17, 2023 20:00 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBThea Engst is a seasoned author, a bartender, and a serious student of Tarot. In her fourth book, Spirits of the Tarot, Thea develops a cocktail recipe to match each Tarot card. It's fun stuff. Especially for true believers. We spoke with her about Tarot and how a bartender goes about developing signature cocktails. Photo courtesy of Thea Engst. Let’s Talk About Food is Powered by Simplecast.
How Many Cookbooks Do You Own?
March 09, 2023 19:30 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBIf you have a wall of cookbooks (like I do) but only ever crack open a few–help is at hand. Jane Kelly is the founder of Eat Your Books, a service that lets you search your own library to find the perfect recipe. She was an executive in the music and TV world in the UK, and then, she had an idea.... Photo courtesy of Eat Your Books. Let’s Talk About Food is Powered by Simplecast.
Do We Need a National Food Museum?
February 23, 2023 21:30 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBIf there were royalty in the food world, Michael Jacobson would be a king. Or at least a duke. As the co-founder of the Center for Science in the Public Interest––CSPI––he notched so many wins in protecting consumers that he made advocacy look easy. After more than 40 years at the helm of the CSPI, he is onto his next quest; creating a National Food Museum. We'd be wrong to bet against his success. Photo courtesy of Michael Jacobson. Let’s Talk About Food is Powered by Simplecast.
Michael Moss, From War Correspondent to a War on Bad Food
February 20, 2023 15:30 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBI have to confess to a long-term professional crush on Mike Moss, the intrepid New York Times investigative journalist who blew the lid off big foods’ research-based adeptness at engineering our Bliss Point–– finding the most exquisite balance of Salt, Sugar, Fat that renders us helpless faced with an open bag of Doritos. Or Oreo––or pick your poison. His new book, Hooked, unmasks the rigorous research used to addict us to ultra-processed food. He is such a trove of insight and knowledge tha...
What's Next? A Conversation about the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health
February 02, 2023 20:00 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBOur eminent panel--Congressman Jim McGovern, Marion Nestle, Michael Jacobson, Dariush Mozaffarian, and Kirsten Tobey felt there's room for optimism that this conference can and will have a lasting impact on our American food system. Listen in and see if you agree. Let’s Talk About Food is Powered by Simplecast.
Kirsten Tobey: Creating a Revolution in School Food
January 26, 2023 23:00 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBIt began as a B-School class project. Our guest today is Kirsten Saenz Tobey. Kirsten co-founded Revolution Foods in 2006 while in graduate school at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Both she and her co-founder Kristin Richmond needed a project of a B-School class they were both taking. They bonded – and soared over the idea that school food could be both crave-able and healthy. Their school project became Revolution Foods, a California based B-Corp to build lifelong healthy eaters by ...
Slow Cooked: Marion Nestle's New Memoir
October 27, 2022 22:34 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBWhen an icon and role model in food policy and food studies writes a memoir, after writing more than a dozen policy-heavy books --you might expect it to be serious. Even a little preachy. But you’d be wrong here. Marion Nestle’s telling of her life story is juicy and delicious. Eminently readable. In addition to her own journey, it is a surprisingly candid reflection about the difficulties of a serious and professional woman in academia coming of age in the 50’s and 60’s. Married at 19? Real...
To Fall in Love, Drink This
October 06, 2022 21:35 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBJournalist and essayist Alice Feiring was proclaimed “the queen of natural wines” by the Financial Times. Feiring is a recipient of a coveted James Beard Award for wine journalism, among many other accolades. She has written for newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, New York magazine, Time, AFAR, World of Fine Wine, and the beloved winezine, Noble Rot. Her previous books include Natural Wine for the People; Dirty Guide to Wine; For the Love of Wine; Naked Wine: Letting Grape...
When you teach a doctor to cook...
September 22, 2022 19:16 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBDr. David Eisenberg is a visionary. Son and grandson of a baker, he breathed life into an international movement of Teaching Kitchens, hands-on kitchens where doctors and other health professionals could learn about why food matters. On the eve of a major conference of The Teaching Kitchen Collaborative, he talks to us about food, about his experience as the first US medical student in China, and about why he never wavered from his lifelong twin passions for bringing food and health into the...
Flipping for Filipino Barbecue: The Fattened Caf
September 16, 2022 01:56 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBThese are the best kind of stories. Youth. Passion! Barbecue! Darren and Charlene Young moved to St. Louis from LA -- and Darren discovered a hidden passion for real, authentic barbecue. Charlene suddenly noticed that she missed the Filipino barbecue fests of her LA family and world, and so with an abundance of energy, and desire to make friends with new neighbors, they began hosting backyard Filipino barbecues. They were very popular! It morphed from backyard, to catering and on to sold-out...
Eat Like a Pig, Run Like a Horse
September 09, 2022 15:27 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBOur guest today, author Anastacia Marx DeSalcedo, has a wonderfully curious mind. Her first book, The Combat-Ready Kitchen, explored the legacy and influence of military research on the foods we eat. (Who knew those bags of precut lettuce came from the Army?) Her new book, Eat Like a Pig, Run Like a Horse is just out. It’s a smart and slightly jarring argument that will shake up your preconceptions about nutrition, health – and yes, the benefits of exercise. Tough love for couch potatoes co...
Matthew Martin, From Homeless to Hero
July 28, 2022 18:45 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBMatthew Martin is a remarkable man. A Lutheran minister who spent much of college homeless, he's managed to mobilize thousands of volunteers who come in to work on an "assembly line" in a local church to package meals that have fed over 39 million people over the past few years. This spring, over a million of the meals went to Ukraine. Photo Courtesy of Matthew Martin. HRN is home to transformative exchanges about food. Our 35+ member-supported food podcasts empower eaters to cultivate a ...
Brewing the American Dream (Part 2)
July 15, 2022 15:01 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBWe are back to our roots with live events! In this episode you'll hear from three amazing women entrepreneurs. Each story is one of belief in self, grit, and creativity in a challenging world. Today we'll hear from Emily Mellgard, CEO and Founder of Fieldstone Kombucha, and then from Heather Yunger of Top Shelf Cookies. These are great stories of personal reinvention, personal fierceness, perseverance and adaptability in the challenging era of COVID. You'll be impressed and entertained by th...
Brewing the American Dream (Part 1)
July 15, 2022 15:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBWe are back to our roots with live events! In this episode you'll hear from three amazing women entrepreneurs. Each story is one of belief in self, grit, and creativity in a challenging world. First, we'll hear from Carlene O'Garro, CEO of Delectable Desires Pastries; next from Alicia Haddad, CEO of Alicia's Spice Co; and lastly from HamdAllah Modupẹ́ Olona, founder of Goodie Crunch. They're funny. They're honest. They are great. Let's have a listen. HRN is home to transformative exchanges ...
Lawyers to the (FOOD) Rescue
June 13, 2022 23:24 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MBEmily Broad Leib is a Clinical Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Harvard Law School’s Food Law and Policy Clinic, the nation’s first law school clinic devoted to providing legal and policy solutions to the challenges facing our food system. When I first met Emily, she was just out of law school and just back from a stint working as a legal aid lawyer in the Mississippi Delta. As a young instructor at Harvard Law School, she was essentially being a friendly sort of mentor to sma...
Lance Gould: From Huff Po to Elephants, Food and the Brooklyn Story Lab
May 18, 2022 17:22 - 29 minutes - 27.2 MBLance Gould has a pretty terrific story to tell. He began as a journalist covering the UN and ended up working closely with Arianna Huffington, managing various sections for the Huffington Post. (He says only the Pope refused to take his call.) Now he is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Brooklyn Story Lab (BSL), a media-strategy firm that teaches purpose-driven organizations how to be more effective storytellers, particularly around their SDG-related work. And quite a bit of his wo...
Chef Josh Lewin Builds His Dream House
April 28, 2022 17:32 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBIt’s not hard to fall in love with chefs. But Josh Lewin of Juliet in Somerville, and Peregrine in the Back Bay––is special to me. I’ve been privileged to watch him grow and prosper – from bistro cook, to executive chef, to pop-up entrepreneur, to an award-winning chef-owner whose idea of the purpose of a restaurant is as much about social equity for the staff, as it is about excellence in the food. We recorded this conversation in late winter of 2022 when the new improved and enlarged Julie...
Her Eminence, Nancy Harmon Jenkins
April 07, 2022 21:59 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBNancy Harmon Jenkins is simply one of the great food authorities in America. She’s also one of the great storytellers, as you will hear. Nancy is the author of 8 books and counting and too many articles to count. From her two home bases in Tuscany and Camden, Maine, she teaches and writes about food topics all over the world. Her Mediterranean Diet Cookbook (now updated) is the benchmark book for the topic, as are her books on pasta and olive oil. Her work is singular: her trademark is deep ...
Her Emimence, Nancy Harmon Jenkins
April 07, 2022 21:59 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBNancy Harmon Jenkins is simply one of the great food authorities in America. She’s also one of the great storytellers, as you will hear. Nancy is the author of 8 books and counting and too many articles to count. From her two home bases in Tuscany and Camden, Maine, she teaches and writes about food topics all over the world. Her Mediterranean Diet Cookbook (now updated) is the benchmark book for the topic, as are her books on pasta and olive oil. Her work is singular: her trademark is deep ...
Young Guns: Jack Barber of Mainely Burgers
March 29, 2022 00:01 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBThe best thing -- and the worst -- thing about food businesses is that it seems so easy to begin one. And it is not. Our guest Jack Barber and his brother Max started Mainely Burgers over 10 years ago as green college kids looking for summer jobs. Now they are full-fledged entrepreneurs. Bravo to them! Photo Courtesy of Jack Barber. Are you a business owner? Become an HRN business member! For $500 HRN will shine a light on your work AND you will help sustain our mission to expand the way p...
Henry Patterson is off to Poland
March 22, 2022 17:35 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBOur guest today, Henry Patterson, has decades of experience in the food business. Along the way, he has learned a thing or two about how to keep customers yours forever. But, right now, HPatt is off to a border town in Poland to cook for Ukrainian refugees with Jose Andres' World Central Kitchen. It's his present to himself for his 70th birthday. Let's hear how and why he is going. Click here for Henry Patterson's GoFundME Click here for World Central Kitchen. You can also follow the hash...
Marion Nestle: A Modern Day Joan of Arc?
March 07, 2022 22:01 - 40 minutes - 37 MBThe redoubtable Marion Nestle is the closest I can come to a modern-day Joan of Arc, rallying us for decades against private and public institutional forces as she advocates for good food, sensible nutrition, and responsible public health. Author of fourteen seminal books, and hundreds research papers, Op-Eds, and collaborations, Marion Nestle founded NYU’s department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health, where she trained––and most importantly––inspired an army of scholars and activ...
Darin Detwiler: Tragedy Carves a Food Safety Hero
March 01, 2022 05:26 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MBThis is a story of bravery and purpose. If food safety seems like an abstract policy concept to you, you must listen to Darin Detwiler's story. When Darin's 16-month-old son Riley contracted E. coli at daycare, Darin's world turned upside down. In the decades since, Darin, a former US Navy nuclear engineer has dedicated himself to making sure that we all understand the true human cost of unsafe food practices. Listen and weep. Photo Courtesy of Darin Detwiler. Heritage Radio Network is a l...
Claire Cheney, The Spice Girl
February 17, 2022 19:27 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBOur guest today is Claire Cheney, the founder and owner of the renowned Curio Spice Company. Curio is a mission-driven spice company, importing spices sustainably and directly from growers all over the world. Claire has an obsession for spices, which she discovered in her early travels to South East Asia. She is “the blender in chief” -- she selects the spices, and she unleashes her incredible sensory abilities to create unique spice blends. We were curious how Claire learned to trust her ...
No Farms No Future: A Show About the Issues Facing Farmers and Ranchers
February 10, 2022 20:13 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBIf you enjoyed our last episode with John Piotti, we have good news! Heritage Radio Network is producing a monthly show hosted by John. The show is called No Farms No Future, the podcast of American Farmland Trust. The show will dig into the issues facing farms and farmers today. We all need to eat, and as a result, we all need to know what faces the folks who raise our food. Today we are proud to premiere the very first episode of No Farms No Future. For more than 40 years, American...
Mr. Piotti Goes to Washington
February 03, 2022 20:00 - 30 minutes - 28 MBOur guest is John Piotti, the president and CEO of American Farmland Trust, the nation’s leading non-profit dedicated to protecting farmland, promoting sound farming practices, and keeping farmers on the land. How did a kid growing up on Nantucket Island, hoping to design sailboats, end up in Maine (and now in Washington DC), and become laser focused on preserving rural life and the livelihood of America’s farmers? Photo Courtesy of American Farmland Trust. Heritage Radio Network is a list...
Finding the Light: Photographer Michael Piazza
January 29, 2022 06:41 - 32 minutes - 30 MBFood photography is a marvel. Beautiful photos make me want to own the book, cook the dish, visit the restaurant, travel to the source. But how do you become a celebrated food photographer? You may not know his name, but you’ve been admiring his art for years in best-selling cookbooks, magazines, websites and more. Michael Piazza will tell us how he became a food-focused photographer, and why “it’s all about the light.” Photo Courtesy of Michael Piazza. Heritage Radio Network is a listener...
Tamar Haspel: Washington Post Columnist and Former "Teacher's Pest"
January 20, 2022 20:08 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBOur guest today is Tamar Haspel. Tamar is a columnist for the Washington Post. Her column UNEARTHED focuses on the intersection of food and science. She's a force of nature -- and food. In High School she was awarded the Teacher's Pest Award for her incessant curiosity and willingness to challenge authority. Now she has a James Beard award to match. Photo Courtesy of Tamar Haspel. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Let’s Talk About Food by bec...
Who wouldn't want to escape to Italy right now?
January 13, 2022 19:54 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBToday is a real treat for those of us with lock-down wanderlust. A married couple – Rachel Greenberger and Cristiano Bonino. Rachel is a 2020 Eisenhower Fellow working on Regenerative Agriculture and Food Systems – she was one of the creators of Food Sol – a thought leadership initiative for Food Entrepreneurs at Babson College. Rachel also works with her husband, Cristiano, on his Italian Tour Company Food.Stories.Travel. I love his voice – and couldn’t we all use a little escape to the cou...
From Pizza Truck to the Prince of Provincetown
December 09, 2021 18:41 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MBJohn Yingling's story is a classic one-foot-in-front-of-other tale of entrepreneurship— how he started as a pizza delivery boy in high school in the 70's, made dough in high school, and decided to put a pin in Provincetown and opened up P'Town's first pizza shop on a shoestring. (This included bunking down in a graveyard for a rent-free bed.) His flagship Spiritus Pizza is still successful, as well as a string of other food ventures and owning much of the prime real estate in town. Photo Co...
When Dumplings Make You a Star
December 02, 2021 19:01 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBOur guest today is Irene Li. And my god, is she a powerhouse. A six-time James Beard Nominee for Rising Star Chef, plus, Zagat’s 30 under 30, Eater’s Young Gun and so much more. She has now become one of the shining stars and entrepreneurs, a true community leader in the culinary space around Boston and beyond––especially noted for her huge heart and nimbleness in our post-covid food world. The youngest of three siblings who founded Mei Mei, a Dumpling FOOD truck (that’s oversimplified by ma...
Liz Hauck Writes: Home Made
November 18, 2021 19:24 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBA book that could change your life. Home Made author Liz Hauck decided to follow-up on an idea she hatched with her father just before he passed away: she would show up and make and eat dinner with the boys who lived in the group home where he worked. She did just that. For three full years, Liz showed up every week with bags of groceries and made dinner with the teenagers who lived in the home. The book is so well-written and inspiring that none other than the Times book review gave this fi...
The One and Only Christopher Kimball Revealed. (Just kidding.)
November 11, 2021 22:19 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBOur conversation with food media baron Chris Kimball was a hoot. Although he produces his own Milk Street podcast and radio show (carried on over 200 radio stations) he was willing to come on our show. He’s wry man with amazing energy and a boundless entrepreneurial spirit. Founding Cook's Illustrated, Cook's Magazine, America’s Test Kitchen––and now Milk Street––not to mention his seven books (and counting!) –– have all been centered around food and food media. An empire builder of the firs...
It's Been Quite a Year! Our First Anniversary Edition!
November 04, 2021 21:34 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBHappy Anniversary to us! And Thank You. Today we remember our very first show with chef Lydia Shire, chef Will Gilson, chef Jasper White and Annie Copps! They are all fun -- and remind why we need to get back to the live stage! Photo Courtesy of Lydia Shire. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Let’s Talk About Food by becoming a member! Let’s Talk About Food is Powered by Simplecast.
Hannah Howard, Memoir Writer, Her Complex Relationship with Food, Love, and Cheese
October 29, 2021 15:41 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBHannah Howard is the author of two memoirs, Feast: True Love In and Out of the Kitchen and Plenty: A Memoir of Food and Family. We loved both her books, beautifully written, clear on her struggle between loving food and wrestling with food issues and body image. She is funny, moving, smart, and when she writes about cheese, the earth stands still. We start this episode with Hannah reading from her first book, Feast. You will love her crisis in the cheese cave. What a writer! Photo Courtesy ...
Heather Cox Richardson, The Historian is a Foodie!
October 21, 2021 19:32 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBWe are gob-smacked to have her on our podcast. Her daily blog, “Letters from An American” is required reading for many of us. I wake up and read her first thing. Others, can’t get to sleep without taking in her incredible and seemingly effortless gift of putting the news of the day--no matter how distressing – into a un-stuffy, almost chatty, historical context. We know she’s been up til the wee hours writing it –with footnotes! Her podcast, Now & Then, is a joy. And her Facebook live lect...
Congressman Jim McGovern, Chair of the "Hunger Caucus"
October 14, 2021 22:30 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBCongressman Jim McGovern is our man in Congress. He represents Worcester, Massachusetts, but he really represents all of us who care about food. Not only is he the chair of the powerful rules committee, but he is lobbying for a White House Conference on Food & Nutrition. The last time that happened, Richard Nixon was president. Photo Courtesy of Congressman Jim McGovern. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Let’s Talk About Food by becoming a me...