Latest Louisa kasdon Podcast Episodes
Phoebe Lapine: Healthy Hedonism
Let's Talk About Food - April 25, 2024 17:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWriter, 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 fre...
Greg Drescher, Certified Food Visionary
Let's Talk About Food - April 05, 2024 14:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSome 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 v...
What is Legacy Agriculture Anyway?
Let's Talk About Food - March 14, 2024 21:30 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOur 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 expertis...
Ciao Italia's Mary Ann Esposito: The Longest Running Cooking Show in America
Let's Talk About Food - February 15, 2024 16:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsMary 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 cookin...
Michael Crupain's Wild Journey: From Neurosurgery, to Dr. Oz, to Cookbooks!
Let's Talk About Food - January 25, 2024 16:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsMichael 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...
A Real Corker: Anthropologist Corky White Dishes on Food!
Let's Talk About Food - November 09, 2023 21:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOur 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, c...
Veggie Queen
Let's Talk About Food - November 02, 2023 16:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOur 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 He...
Barton Seaver: Seafood Evangelist
Let's Talk About Food - October 13, 2023 15:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWe 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...
Mark Erickson, Provost of the CIA
Let's Talk About Food - July 07, 2023 14:30 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsA 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 Powe...
Can an Algorithm Become Besties With a Farm-to-You Home Delivery Service?
Let's Talk About Food - June 15, 2023 18:30 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsHave 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...
Greens Under Glass: How Paul Sellew is Re-Inventing Your Salad Bowl
Let's Talk About Food - April 28, 2023 22:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsPaul 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. W...
Hello Earth Day! And What Should I Do About My Beloved 8-Burner Gas Stove?
Let's Talk About Food - April 17, 2023 17:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsA 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 abou...
Filmmaker Joanna James: A FIne Line Revisited
Let's Talk About Food - March 24, 2023 19:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsJoanna 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 restaur...
A Tarot Reader Walked into a Bar...
Let's Talk About Food - March 17, 2023 20:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThea 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...
How Many Cookbooks Do You Own?
Let's Talk About Food - March 09, 2023 19:30 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIf 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...
Do We Need a National Food Museum?
Let's Talk About Food - February 23, 2023 21:30 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIf 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 CS...
Michael Moss, From War Correspondent to a War on Bad Food
Let's Talk About Food - February 20, 2023 15:30 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsI 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 w...
What's Next? A Conversation about the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health
Let's Talk About Food - February 02, 2023 20:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOur 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 Power...
Kirsten Tobey: Creating a Revolution in School Food
Let's Talk About Food - January 26, 2023 23:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIt 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. Th...
Slow Cooked: Marion Nestle's New Memoir
Let's Talk About Food - October 27, 2022 22:34 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWhen 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 readabl...
To Fall in Love, Drink This
Let's Talk About Food - October 06, 2022 21:35 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsJournalist 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 mag...
When you teach a doctor to cook...
Let's Talk About Food - September 22, 2022 19:16 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsDr. 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 Colla...
Flipping for Filipino Barbecue: The Fattened Caf
Let's Talk About Food - September 16, 2022 01:56 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThese 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...
Eat Like a Pig, Run Like a Horse
Let's Talk About Food - September 09, 2022 15:27 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOur 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 L...
Matthew Martin, From Homeless to Hero
Let's Talk About Food - July 28, 2022 18:45 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsMatthew 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, ove...
Brewing the American Dream (Part 2)
Let's Talk About Food - July 15, 2022 15:01 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWe 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 Yun...
Brewing the American Dream (Part 1)
Let's Talk About Food - July 15, 2022 15:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWe 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, CE...
Lawyers to the (FOOD) Rescue
Let's Talk About Food - June 13, 2022 23:24 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsEmily 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 ...
Lance Gould: From Huff Po to Elephants, Food and the Brooklyn Story Lab
Let's Talk About Food - May 18, 2022 17:22 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsLance 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 o...
Chef Josh Lewin Builds His Dream House
Let's Talk About Food - April 28, 2022 17:32 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIt’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 pu...
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