Meant To Be Eaten
211 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★ - 6 ratingsMeant to be Eaten looks at cross-cultural exchange in food and contemporary media. What determines “authenticity”? What, if anything, gets lost in translation when cooking foods from another’s culture? First-generation Chinese host, Coral Lee, looks at how American culture figures forth in less-than mainstream ways, in less-than expected places.
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Gastromica's New Feed On HRN
June 16, 2022 00:50 - 16 minutes - 15 MBIf you’ve been keeping up with Meant To Be Eaten, you know that our last few seasons were produced in collaboration with Gastronomica, the Journal for Food Studies.Gastronomica now has its very own feed on the Heritage Radio Network where they are continuing this work! So, if you’re a fan of Meant To Be Eaten, go check out Gastronomica and subscribe! Here’s a little sneak peak of what you can expect. On this episode, host Jaclyn Rohel, a member of the Gastronomica Editorial Collective, ta...
What to Read Now: Melissa Fuster's Caribeños at the Table
November 28, 2021 17:26 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBThis episode is part of a collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, hosted by editorial collective member Jaclyn Rohel. Jaclyn shares some new and soon-to-be published titles in food studies and is joined by her Gastronomica colleague Melissa Fuster in conversation about Melissa’s new book, Caribeños at the Table: How Migration, Health, and Race Intersect in New York City (UNC Press, 2021). An expert in both public health nutrition and food studies, Melissa weaves togeth...
Stephen Velasquez on Art and Activism
November 21, 2021 21:29 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBThis episode is part of a collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Paula Johnson. In this episode, curator Stephen Velasquez discusses how activism and food history come together in a graphic calendar. The Calendario de Comida 1976, created by California-based artist collectives in 1975, sought to bring attention to alternative foodways and indigenous food knowledges as part of a broader social justice movement. Stephen ...
Sucharita Kanjilal on Tomatoes and Taste-making in Indian Recipes
November 14, 2021 16:15 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBThis episode is part of a collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Krishnendu Ray. The tomato is a staple ingredient in Indian subcontinental cooking, but this is a relatively recent phenomenon. In this episode, anthropologist Sucharita Kanjilal explains how tomatoes became incorporated into Indian pantries in the 20th century. Weaving together the histories of two British imports -- the tomato and the recipe -- she dis...
Aya H. Kimura on Pickling: Histories of Tsukemono
November 07, 2021 21:19 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBThis episode is part of a collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Daniel Bender. Aya H. Kimura unpacks the biocultural history of tsukemono (Japanese pickles). She discusses the different kinds of traditional tsukemono in Japanese dining cultures and explains how these preserves are made. She also offfers insight into how modern agriculture has affected tsukemono. Photo credit to Aya H. Kimura. Heritage Radio Network...
Benjamin Schrager on Risk, Regulation, and Raw Chicken in Japan
October 31, 2021 22:37 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBThis episode is part of a collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member James Farrer. Geographer Benjamin Schrager talks about his new article, “Risky but Raw: On (Not) Regulating One of the Most High-Risk Dishes in Japan,” published in Gastronomica (issue 21.3). He raises awareness about food risk and discusses the tastes and textures of some raw chicken dishes, local regulatory responses, and the development of the poultry...
Raúl Matta and Padma Panchapakesan on Dining Out: Changing Values of Good Taste
October 24, 2021 16:55 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBThis episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Josée Johnston. Raúl Matta and Padma Panchapakesan discuss how ideas of "good taste" have changed over time with the aid of different judgment devices. Focusing on the role of chefs, they unpack the sociology of tastemakers amidst the changing landscape of the restaurant industry. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofi...
Gastronomica: The Next Issue
June 20, 2021 19:00 - 52 minutes - 41.6 MBThis episode offers a sneak peek behind the scenes at Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies. Lisa Haushofer hosts a roundtable live from the 2021 Food Studies conference, Just Food: Because It Is Never Just Food. Editors from the Gastronomica editorial collective – Amy Trubek, Paula Johnson, and Daniel Bender – reveal what’s coming down the pipeline and share their thoughts on what they’d like to read in Gastronomica. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast net...
Chicken Politics
June 13, 2021 19:00 - 40 minutes - 34.3 MBThis episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Melissa Fuster. Michaël Bruckert explores meat industrialization in South India. Recounting his fieldwork in the region of Tamil Nadu, Bruckert traces the commoditization of poultry, from farms, markets, and butcher shops to eateries, home kitchens, and consumers’ plates. In this global South context, he explains how recent development...
When the Rainbows Bring the Crawfish
June 08, 2021 14:12 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBThis episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Paula Johnson. V. Constanza Ocampo-Raeder explores human-nature relationships through the social life of camarones, a Peruvian river crustacean. Drawing together stories of landscape, labor and gastronomic revival, Ocampo-Raeder distills the complexity of crawfish-catching from river to plate. Photo Courtesy of V. Constanza Ocampo-Raed...
Japanese Immigrants’ Pantry
May 23, 2021 20:28 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBThis episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Bob Valgenti. Eric Funabashi discusses Japanese immigrants' culinary experiences in Brazil following the initial migration of Japanese workers to São Paulo’s coffee farms in 1908. Drawing on published cookbooks and immigrants’ private diaries, he shows how Japanese immigrants forged new culinary practices and identities in Brazil over t...
What to Read Now
May 17, 2021 01:17 - 28 minutes - 24.9 MBThis episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Jaclyn Rohel. Jaclyn is joined by her colleague, anthropologist Janita Van Dyk, to introduce a new feature on recent and upcoming books in Food Studies, “What to Read Now.” This episode focuses on Just the Tonic: A Natural History of Tonic Water (Kew Publishing, 2019) in conversation with authors Kim Walker and Mark Nesbitt to explore s...
Race in American Food Television
May 10, 2021 16:03 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBThis episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Krishnendu Ray. Alison Hope Alkon and Rafi Grosglik discuss representations of race in food media. Drawing on examples from contemporary popular culture, they explore how the medium of television engages with racial inequalities and how it could act as a critical intervention for social change. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supp...
Well Rooted: A Gastronomica Interview with Chef Rob Connoley
May 03, 2021 12:56 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBThis episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Daniel Bender. Chef Rob Connoley discusses culinary collaboration and the roots of Ozark cuisine at his research-driven restaurant, Bulrush. Drawing on his experiences of shared knowledge creation with a range of local academic and culture partners, Connoley helps bring place-based storytelling to the forefront of culinary creation. Ph...
Ketchup as a Vegetable: Condiments and the Politics of School Lunch in Reagan’s America
February 21, 2021 20:48 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBThis episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, guest hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Melissa Fuster. Historian Amy Bentley returns to the show to discuss the politics of food and nutrition. She traces how the Reagan administration 40 years ago shifted (deliberately or inadvertently) the classification of ketchup from a condiment to a vegetable in an effort to overhaul national school lunch programs and cut governm...
Lunch Interrupted! COVID-19 and Japan’s School Meals
February 14, 2021 21:18 - 30 minutes - 28.4 MBThis episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, guest hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Jessica Carbone. Alexis Agliano Sanborn explores how Japan's school lunch programs connected people and supported communities in the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Highlighting civil-society initiatives, she shows how school lunch programs were a source of resiliency in local food supply and distribution networks. Photo c...
Rumor, Chinese Diets, and COVID-19: Questions and Answers about Chinese Food and Eating Habits
February 07, 2021 20:51 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBThis episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, guest hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Krishnendu Ray. Historians Michelle T. King and Wendy Jia-Chen Fu discuss the stigmatization of Chinese food and eating habits in Anglophone media coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. They weigh in on common questions surrounding wet markets and the wildlife trade in Chinese food systems, dispel misinformation, and share ways to ...
Paqueteros and Paqueteras: Humanizing a Dehumanized Food System
January 31, 2021 21:01 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBThis episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies <https://online.ucpress.edu/gastronomica>, guest hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Jaclyn Rohel. Alyshia Gálvez explores the work of transnational food couriers known as paqueteros and paqueteras. These informal grassroots entrepreneurs connect people and places across international borders through the delivery of goods, care packages, and specialty and traditional foods...
Feeding the City, Pandemic and Beyond
January 24, 2021 21:11 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MBThis episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, guest hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Bob Valgenti. Bryan Dale and Jo Sharma share a COVID-19 dispatch from Toronto, Canada. They discuss how their project "Feeding the City, Pandemic and Beyond" has developed a model of public scholarship that documents food system experiences, community challenges and local resilience. By engaging grassroots voices, from farmers and...
Around the World in 50 Restaurants: The Curious Irony of Hyperlocal Food
January 17, 2021 21:00 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBThis episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, guest hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Daniel Bender. John Broadway problematizes how a global restaurant ranking system produced an irony in haute cuisine in the years prior to the pandemic: elite, hypermobile customers travelling the world to eat hyperlocal food in celebrated restaurants. Commenting on restaurant rankings, access and exclusivity, he positions this ...
Decoding Miracle Food Cures for COVID-19
November 29, 2020 20:33 - 27 minutes - 24.9 MBThis episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies , guest hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Lisa Haushofer. Adrienne Bitar investigates the many miracle food cures for COVID-19 that continue to circulate on social media, drawing from her piece that appears in the current issue’s Dispatches section. By analyzing the so-called Israeli lemon baking soda tea and Yoruba pepper stew miracle cures, she explores the changing ...
Salmon on the Table
November 22, 2020 15:11 - 41 minutes - 38 MBThis episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, guest hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Melissa Fuster. John Gifford discusses salmon and sustainability, drawing from his piece that appears in the current issue’s section on “Working with Ingredients.” Taking us to the waters off the coast of Vancouver Island, he explores the environmental effects of aquaculture, which is growing to meet global demands for fish. He ...
The Food and COVID-19 NYC Archive: Mapping the Pandemic’s Effect on Food in Real Time
November 15, 2020 23:43 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBThis episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, guest hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Jaclyn Rohel. Amy Bentley and Stephanie Borkowsky discuss The Food and COVID-19 NYC Archive, which documents the ongoing changes to New York City's food system during the pandemic. Their article, which appears in the current issue’s special section on COVID Dispatches from around the world, explores the origins and evolution of ...
Taste as Governor: Soy Sauce in Late Chosŏn and Colonial Korea
November 08, 2020 21:15 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBThis episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, guest hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Krishnendu Ray. Kyoungjin Bae, as part of a Gastronomica round table on Taste and Technology in East Asia, explores the production and consumption of soy sauce in Korea from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Although the transformation of Korean soy sauce's identity in the 20th century is usually attributed to industrializati...
Mexicans in Chicago
November 01, 2020 20:02 - 28 minutes - 26 MBThis episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies https://online.ucpress.edu/gastronomica. This episode offers new understandings of the food desert. In the case of Mexican Chicago, the imageries of food desert is inadequate. Drawing on unique ethnographic work — interviews with ordinary Chicago residents of Mexican origin — residents highlight access stores that cater to a wide variety of eaters. Guest host and Gastronomica editorial...
Lockdown Destitution: Delhi, March 2020
October 25, 2020 18:55 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MBThis episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies https://online.ucpress.edu/gastronomica, whose recent issue is entirely devoted to COVID Dispatches—in it, authors from around the world offer short, intimate portraits of early responses to the food crises of this pandemic, and hosts from the journal’s editorial collective will be joined by some of the featured authors to share their stories, and to hear how things have or haven't chang...
A Grocery Store Employee's Experience on the COVID Front Lines
September 20, 2020 19:55 - 43 minutes - 39.3 MBThis episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies https://online.ucpress.edu/gastronomica, whose recent issue is entirely devoted to COVID Dispatches—in it, authors from around the world offer short, intimate portraits of early responses to the food crises of this pandemic, and hosts from the journal’s editorial collective will be joined by some of the featured authors to share their stories, and to hear how things have or haven't chang...
The Stockpile and the Letdown
September 13, 2020 19:55 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBThis episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies https://online.ucpress.edu/gastronomica, whose forthcoming issue is entirely devoted to COVID Dispatches—in it, authors from around the world offer short, intimate portraits of early responses to the food crises of this pandemic, and hosts from the journal’s editorial collective will be joined by some of the featured authors to share their stories, and to hear how things have or haven't ...
I Miss the Grocery Store the Most
August 23, 2020 19:57 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBThis episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies https://online.ucpress.edu/gastronomica, whose forthcoming issue is entirely devoted to COVID Dispatches—in it, authors from around the world offer short, intimate portraits of early responses to the food crises of this pandemic, and hosts from the journal’s editorial collective will be joined by some of the featured authors to share their stories, and to hear how things have or haven't ...
COVID-19 and Challenges of Urban Informality in Delhi, India
August 16, 2020 16:47 - 32 minutes - 30 MBThis episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies https://online.ucpress.edu/gastronomica, whose forthcoming issue is entirely devoted to COVID Dispatches—in it, authors from around the world offer short, intimate portraits of early responses to the food crises of this pandemic, and hosts from the journal’s editorial collective will be joined by some of the featured authors to share their stories, and to hear how things have or haven't ...
South Africa under lockdown
August 09, 2020 16:40 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MBThis episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies https://online.ucpress.edu/gastronomica, whose forthcoming issue is entirely devoted to COVID Dispatches—in it, authors from around the world offer short, intimate portraits of early responses to the food crises of this pandemic, and hosts from the journal’s editorial collective will be joined by some of the featured authors to share their stories, and to hear how things have or haven't ...
The Sickness Unto Hospitality
August 02, 2020 19:51 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBThis episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, whose forthcoming issue is entirely devoted to COVID Dispatches—in it, authors from around the world offer short, intimate portraits of early responses to the food crises of this pandemic, and hosts from the journal’s editorial collective will be joined by some of the featured authors to share their stories, and to hear how things have or haven't changed in the past few months. Stephen...
Alicia Kennedy on the value of white acceptance
June 28, 2020 20:30 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBA conversation with Alicia Kennedy. Alicia Kennedy wears many hats. A food and drink writer from Long Island—now based in San Juan, where she’s covering the local culinary scene—Alicia’s written for NYLON, The New Republic, Time, and the Village Voice, to name just a few. She also hosts Meatless, a podcast on meat consumption and culture, and currently writes a weekly newsletter on the goings-on of good media. Mentioned in this episode: Alicia's newsletter: https://aliciakennedy.substack....
Are mid-sized, regenerative, volunteer-based farms the solution to all our problems?
June 14, 2020 18:41 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBA conversation with Donna Kilpatrick and William Matovu. Heifer International works all over the world to use agriculture as a path out of poverty. Under its umbrella is Heifer Ranch, a regenerative, organic and humane ranch, run by 3 women, in Little Rock, Arkansas. Donna Kilpatrick—who oversees operations of Heifer Ranch—and William Matovu—who oversees Heifer’s work in Uganda—are joining me today to discuss the flaws of our current food system, and how alternate systems can offer...
Heifer International on how agriculture can provide a path out of poverty
June 14, 2020 18:41 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBA conversation with Donna Kilpatrick and William Matovu. Heifer International works all over the world to use agriculture as a path out of poverty. Under its umbrella is Heifer Ranch, a regenerative, organic and humane ranch, run by 3 women, in Little Rock, Arkansas. Donna Kilpatrick—who oversees operations of Heifer Ranch—and William Matovu—who oversees Heifer’s work in Uganda—are joining me today to discuss the flaws of our current food system, and how alternate systems can offer lasting ...
Andrew Genung on the importance of word choice and what we can learn from H.K.'s reopenings
June 07, 2020 18:58 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBA conversation with Andrew Genung. Andrew Genung is a Hong-Kong based writer and regular contributor to Eater. He also writes a twice-weekly newsletter, Family Meal, that covers the goings-on in and around the food/media world. Photo Courtesy of Andrew Genung. Meant To Be Eaten is powered by Simplecast.
The importance of word choice & what we can learn from Hong Kong's reopenings
June 07, 2020 18:58 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBA conversation with Andrew Genung. Andrew Genung is a Hong-Kong based writer and regular contributor to Eater. He also writes a twice-weekly newsletter, Family Meal, that covers the goings-on in and around the food/media world. Photo Courtesy of Andrew Genung. Meant To Be Eaten is powered by Simplecast.
Eddie Huang, Afro-Asian Solidarity & How a Fistful of Rice Fueled a Democracy
May 31, 2020 20:07 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBA conversation with Esther Kim. Esther Kim is a writer and editor of the Asian American Writers' Workshop's Transpacific Literary Project. We discuss the stickiness of the "Asian-American" genre, Eddie Huang and appropriation, how a fistful of rice created a democracy, and our duties as Asian-American writers. Michael Pollan, The Sickness in Our Food Supply Ishay Govender-Ypma, Navigating the use of a knife and a fork at the dinner table . Photo Courtesy of Joe Liew. Meant To B...
Esther Kim on Afro-Asian solidarity, Eddie Huang, and how a fistful of rice fuelled a democracy
May 31, 2020 20:07 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBA conversation with Esther Kim. Esther Kim is a writer and editor of the Asian American Writers' Workshop's Transpacific Literary Project. We discuss the stickiness of the "Asian-American" genre, Eddie Huang and appropriation, how a fistful of rice created a democracy, and our duties as Asian-American writers. Michael Pollan, The Sickness in Our Food Supply Ishay Govender-Ypma, Navigating the use of a knife and a fork at the dinner table . Photo Courtesy of Joe Liew. Meant To Be Eaten i...
Farmworkers'Rights Amid & Beyond the Pandemic
May 17, 2020 20:03 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MBA conversation with Lori Flores. Stony Brook University associate professor history Lori Flores's research and writing focuses on Latino life, labor, and politics in the United States from the post-WWII era to the present day. We discuss farmworkers' rights amid (and beyond) the pandemic. Link to the Food52 story we discuss here. United Farm Workers https://ufw.org/ Coalition of Immokalee Workers https://ciw-online.org/ National Center for Farmworker Health http://www.ncfh.org/...
Farmworkers' Rights Amid & Beyond the Pandemic
May 17, 2020 20:03 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MBA conversation with Lori Flores. Stony Brook University associate professor history Lori Flores's research and writing focuses on Latino life, labor, and politics in the United States from the post-WWII era to the present day. We discuss farmworkers' rights amid (and beyond) the pandemic. Link to the Food52 story we discuss here. United Farm Workers https://ufw.org/ Coalition of Immokalee Workers https://ciw-online.org/ National Center for Farmworker Health http://www.ncfh.org/...
Lori Flores on farmworkers' rights amid and beyond the pandemic
May 17, 2020 20:03 - 40 minutes - 36.6 MBA conversation with Lori Flores. Stony Brook University associate professor history Lori Flores's research and writing focuses on Latino life, labor, and politics in the United States from the post-WWII era to the present day. We discuss farmworkers' rights amid (and beyond) the pandemic. Link to the Food52 story we discuss here. United Farm Workers https://ufw.org/ Coalition of Immokalee Workers https://ciw-online.org/ National Center for Farmworker Health http://www.ncfh.org/ Food Ch...
Julia Bainbridge and Malcolm Harris on the antidote to loneliness
May 10, 2020 20:15 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MBConversations with Malcolm Harris and Julia Bainbridge. This episode, we’re talking about loneliness—versus solitude, versus self-isolation. My first guest, author, editor, and critic Malcolm Harris and I discuss what it’s like to be young in America today: how obsession with productiveness and our human capital, has us feeling perpetually burnt out, anxious, and lonely. During the latter half, I speak to Julia Bainbridge—writer, editor, and fellow podcaster. Her show, The Lonely Hour, exp...
The Antidote to Loneliness
May 10, 2020 20:15 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MBConversations with Malcolm Harris and Julia Bainbridge. This episode, we’re talking about loneliness—versus solitude, versus self-isolation. My first guest, author, editor, and critic Malcolm Harris and I discuss what it’s like to be young in America today: how obsession with productiveness and our human capital, has us feeling perpetually burnt out, anxious, and lonely. During the latter half, I speak to Julia Bainbridge—writer, editor, and fellow podcaster. Her show, The Lonely ...
Chhaya Kolavalli on why the local food movement is so white
April 05, 2020 19:00 - 40 minutes - 36.5 MBThis episode of Meant to be Eaten was produced in collaboration with Gastronomica Journal. Melissa Fuster, from Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, is in for Coral Lee. A conversation with Chhaya Kolavalli. The local food movement has been criticized for its overwhelming whiteness. How has the movement responded to these critiques? And what are the implications of these responses? Chhaya Kolavalli confronts whiteness in Kansas City’s local food movement, examining diversity work...
Confronting Whiteness in the Local Food Movement
April 05, 2020 19:00 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBThis episode of Meant to be Eaten was produced in collaboration with Gastronomica Journal. Melissa Fuster, from Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, is in for Coral Lee. A conversation with Chhaya Kolavalli. The local food movement has been criticized for its overwhelming whiteness. How has the movement responded to these critiques? And what are the implications of these responses? Chhaya Kolavalli confronts whiteness in Kansas City’s local food movement, examining diver...
Eric Rath on what ancient sushi forms can teach us about sustainability
March 29, 2020 19:00 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBThis episode of Meant to be Eaten was produced in collaboration with Gastronomica Journal. Melissa Fuster, from Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, is in for Coral Lee. A conversation with Eric C. Rath. Many of us know about sushi, but have you heard of funazushi? Historian Eric C. Rath shares his tasting notes from trying Japan’s most ancient form of sushi. The lessons learned from his two-day tasting spree in Japan allow us to ponder about possibilities of sushi’s future, taki...
Tasting Year-Old Sushi in Japan
March 29, 2020 19:00 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBThis episode of Meant to be Eaten was produced in collaboration with Gastronomica Journal. Melissa Fuster, from Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, is in for Coral Lee. A conversation with Eric C. Rath. Many of us know about sushi, but have you heard of funazushi? Historian Eric C. Rath shares his tasting notes from trying Japan’s most ancient form of sushi. The lessons learned from his two-day tasting spree in Japan allow us to ponder about possibilities of sushi’s fut...
Azri Amram on the Jewish-Palestinian conflict, and food tourism as a bridge
March 22, 2020 18:49 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBThis episode of Meant to be Eaten was produced in collaboration with Gastronomica Journal. Melissa Fuster, from Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, is in for Coral Lee. A conversation with Azri Amram. Can food serve as a tool to build bridges in times of conflict? Azri Amram takes us to the Palestinian town on Kafr Qasim, the site of a massacre in 1956, which today serves as the site for food tours, motivating dialogue between Palestinians and Israeli-Jewish “food tourists”. Azr...
Digesting a massacre
March 22, 2020 18:49 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBThis episode of Meant to be Eaten was produced in collaboration with Gastronomica Journal. Melissa Fuster, from Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, is in for Coral Lee. A conversation with Azri Amram. Can food serve as a tool to build bridges in times of conflict? Azri Amram takes us to the Palestinian town on Kafr Qasim, the site of a massacre in 1956, which today serves as the site for food tours, motivating dialogue between Palestinians and Israeli-Jewish “food touri...