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Her Eminence, Nancy Harmon Jenkins
Let's Talk About Food - April 07, 2022 21:59 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsNancy 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 ...
Her Emimence, Nancy Harmon Jenkins
Let's Talk About Food - April 07, 2022 21:59 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsNancy 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 ...
Young Guns: Jack Barber of Mainely Burgers
Let's Talk About Food - March 29, 2022 00:01 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThe 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 t...
Henry Patterson is off to Poland
Let's Talk About Food - March 22, 2022 17:35 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOur 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...
Marion Nestle: A Modern Day Joan of Arc?
Let's Talk About Food - March 07, 2022 22:01 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThe 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 ...
Darin Detwiler: Tragedy Carves a Food Safety Hero
Let's Talk About Food - March 01, 2022 05:26 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThis 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 nucle...
Claire Cheney, The Spice Girl
Let's Talk About Food - February 17, 2022 19:27 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOur 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 Sout...
No Farms No Future: A Show About the Issues Facing Farmers and Ranchers
Let's Talk About Food - February 10, 2022 20:13 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIf 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...
Mr. Piotti Goes to Washington
Let's Talk About Food - February 03, 2022 20:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOur 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 Ma...
Finding the Light: Photographer Michael Piazza
Let's Talk About Food - January 29, 2022 06:41 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsFood 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...
Tamar Haspel: Washington Post Columnist and Former "Teacher's Pest"
Let's Talk About Food - January 20, 2022 20:08 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOur 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 challen...
Who wouldn't want to escape to Italy right now?
Let's Talk About Food - January 13, 2022 19:54 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsToday 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 Foo...
From Pizza Truck to the Prince of Provincetown
Let's Talk About Food - December 09, 2021 18:41 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsJohn 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 b...
When Dumplings Make You a Star
Let's Talk About Food - December 02, 2021 19:01 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOur 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 Bo...
Liz Hauck Writes: Home Made
Let's Talk About Food - November 18, 2021 19:24 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsA 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...
The One and Only Christopher Kimball Revealed. (Just kidding.)
Let's Talk About Food - November 11, 2021 22:19 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOur 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 Illus...
It's Been Quite a Year! Our First Anniversary Edition!
Let's Talk About Food - November 04, 2021 21:34 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsHappy 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 listene...
Hannah Howard, Memoir Writer, Her Complex Relationship with Food, Love, and Cheese
Let's Talk About Food - October 29, 2021 15:41 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsHannah 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 ...
Heather Cox Richardson, The Historian is a Foodie!
Let's Talk About Food - October 21, 2021 19:32 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWe 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 ...
Congressman Jim McGovern, Chair of the "Hunger Caucus"
Let's Talk About Food - October 14, 2021 22:30 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsCongressman 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 happe...
Holding on to Hospitality
Let's Talk About Food - October 07, 2021 20:09 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWhen Charles Hunter jumped the chasmic divide from NYC to Boston to helm City Winery, he never bargained for a pandemic. He came with a long resume in the hospitality business with everything from a stint at IHOP (he says the boysenberries are real) and owning and managing his own spots in NYC a...
The Lioness at the Library
Let's Talk About Food - October 01, 2021 02:13 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsYou might think it’s obvious that the story of food, of cookbooks is central to understanding our culture and history. But it was not always so. Our storyteller today is Barbara Haber, a towering figure in making sure that “food,” and “women” and cooking were recognized as critical to the study ...
Chef Michel Nischan on Food, Fairness and the Future
Let's Talk About Food - September 25, 2021 00:46 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsMichel Nischan grew up working on his grandparent’s farm in Missouri and developed a deep appreciation for sustainable agriculture and those who work the land. His passion for healthful cooking supported by a local sustainable food system propelled Michel to the front of the culinary scene. Mich...
Chef Michel Nischan on Breakthrough Covid and Being a Good Neighbor
Let's Talk About Food - September 23, 2021 14:50 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn mid-Summer, although fully vaccinated, Michel and his wife Laurie got Breakthrough Covid after a business trip to Nashville. We had to postpone our original conversation, but when we did connect, Michel shared his experience with us. We were moved. And think you will be too. Tune in for more...
Governor Deval Patrick Talks Food
Let's Talk About Food - August 02, 2021 18:38 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsFormer Massachusetts Governor, Deval Patrick, is a major foodie. But you might not know that if you simply focused on his remarkable biography. Raised on the South Side of Chicago in tough circumstances, scholarship to a New England boarding school, graduate of Harvard and Harvard Law School, a ...
Sara Baer-Sinnott & Oldways
Let's Talk About Food - July 26, 2021 15:19 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSara Baer-Sinnott is the President of Oldways, a nonprofit focused on improving public health through cultural food traditions and lifestyles. If you think you haven’t heard of Oldways, you are wrong. Oldways’ tentacles touch almost everything you think about food today. It was the organization t...
Hidden Gem at the General Store
Let's Talk About Food - July 19, 2021 15:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOne of the great pleasures of collecting people's stories is that they often surprise you. You discover a gem just by asking a question, like how did you get come to food? Today, we talk to Megan Fales. Megan runs a perfect General Store called Anchor & Sail in the center of the seacoast village...
How do you learn to Love Food?
Let's Talk About Food - July 12, 2021 13:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThis week we share two "food love origin stories". One from Celeste Croxton-Tate, a cook, author, and Boston Police officer. And one from me, because I too had to learn to love food. Photo Courtesy of LyndigoSpice.com If you count on HRN content, become a monthly sustaining donor at heritagera...
A Candid Conversation with Erin French
Let's Talk About Food - June 28, 2021 15:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsErin French is the owner and chef of The Lost Kitchen, a 40-seat restaurant in Freedom, Maine, that was recently named one TIME Magazine’s World’s Greatest Places and one of "12 Restaurants Worth Traveling Across the World to Experience" by Bloomberg. Her love of Maine and her palpable pleasur...
Troublemaker at the Helm
Let's Talk About Food - June 21, 2021 15:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsDr. Peter Lurie is the head of Center For Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), arguably the most important defender of food safety and justice in the US. Lurie is the grandson of a South African female butcher and a South African egg seller. How did that form him as a warrior for social justic...
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