Latest Louisa kasdon Podcast Episodes
From Bats, to Fish, to Farming
Let's Talk About Food - May 24, 2021 15:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsKathleen Finlay, the President of Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming, in New York’s Hudson Valley has been a leader in the regenerative agriculture movement for most of her career. Now, as the president of Glynwood she is in a position to connect food and farming changemakers from all...
David Waters: When the Community needs Feeding
Let's Talk About Food - May 17, 2021 15:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsToday we talk to David Waters, the CEO of Community Servings. Launched during the AIDS crisis, Community Servings has made and delivered over 9 million medically tailored meals to homebound people with severe and chronic illnesses. Waters, a true visionary, has been the navigator and the pilot f...
Let's Talk About Food, Louisa Kasdon, food, talk radio, podcast, Babson College's Lewis Institute for Social Innovation, Cheryl Kiser, entrepreneurial, leaders
Let's Talk About Food - May 10, 2021 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsToday we talk with Cheryl Kiser, a longtime friend and the visionary behind Babson College’s Lewis Institute for Social Innovation. That’s a big deal. In case you did not know, Babson is the number one business school in Entrepreneurship in the world, and it has been since the rankings began som...
It All Started with Donuts
Let's Talk About Food - May 03, 2021 18:53 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsToday we talk to chef Andy Husbands. Husbands now operates The Smoke Shop, a Boston-based emerging chain of BBQ restaurants. He’s a six-time cookbook author and–– importantly–– a Pitmaster. The co-founder of internationally recognized BBQ team which competed for 20 years and became the first non...
When Kids Become Cooks
Let's Talk About Food - April 12, 2021 05:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSally Sampson is an author, a healthy food champion, and a magazine publisher. When I first met Sally, I was wowed by her productivity–23 cookbooks and counting! But that was never the whole story for Sally. Eleven years ago, she had an idea for a non-profit cooking magazine, that would be f...
A Cookbook Creates Community
Let's Talk About Food - April 05, 2021 05:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsKarl Schatz and Margaret Hathaway live on Ten Apple Farm in Maine with their three daughters. Margaret is a writer; Karl is a photographer. Once they decided to make Maine their home and raise their family on a goat farm, they went all in–––for Maine. They were the two pillars behind the award...
A Former Ballerina's Food Struggles: For herself and her child
Let's Talk About Food - March 29, 2021 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsToday, we hear from Jenny Best. It’s a story of a top tier New York City ballerina, who conquered her own struggles with food, and then was gob-smacked when it came time to begin feeding solids to her own firstborn son. And that was even before the twins! Jenny leaped into action and became th...
When Covid steals a chef's sense of taste and smell
Let's Talk About Food - March 22, 2021 05:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsNina Simonds is simply one of America’s culinary superstars. Trained in Taiwan in the 70’s by China’s culinary royalty, author of 11 cookbooks, former Asia editor for Gourmet, and reporter for the New York Times. So, it was a huge shock to her system that when she got Covid, it stole her sense o...
Wild Asparagus & the Way Back to Wellness A Post Pandemic Conversation with Exercise Physiologist Mike Siemens
Let's Talk About Food - March 15, 2021 05:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsAs the Corporate Director of Exercise Physiology for the world-famous Canyon Ranch wellness resorts, Mike Siemens knows a thing or two about food. And health. And how the two go together. The good. The bad. and how we get back to post Pandemic health. His love for food began as a kid growing up ...
Her Dinner with Andres
Let's Talk About Food - March 08, 2021 13:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsToday we talk to Kate Sullivan. She is the host of the PBS Series, To Dine For ––now in its third season. An accomplished television reporter, she crafted a fantasy job for herself – having a meal and a one-on-one conversation with visionaries at their favorite hometown restaurants. Howard Schul...
There Will be Gangsters
Let's Talk About Food - February 23, 2021 00:35 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsToday we are having a chat with my good friend, Charles Draghi --universally called "Chuck." Chuck inhabits the rarified strata of top chefs in Boston, mentor to many, revered by diners at his restaurant Erbaluce, and lauded by the critics. Before all that, he was a chef in Boston's North End, ...
Never Make a Chef's Blood Boil
Let's Talk About Food - February 08, 2021 06:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings“It was as though somebody had poked a hole in the hull of a ship and we were sinking.” Chef Jody Adams is one of a very few chefs in town whose first name alone makes her instantly recognizable. Like Cher. Or Barack. Jody is a rock-star chef-owner with more than 30 years of success. She’s earn...
Never Take Candy from a Stranger
Let's Talk About Food - January 25, 2021 06:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsHer mother told her “Never Take Candy from a Stranger.” Especially in Moscow. Darra Goldstein was a young Russian graduate student, working on a US trade show in the USSR in the 70’s when a seemingly sympathetic Muscovite offered her a bag of candy as a thank-you. It’s a great story. Darra is n...
Fathers & Stepfathers
Let's Talk About Food - January 11, 2021 22:44 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsDan Michaud "Ron, Jade Valley and the Power of Place" When his soon-to-be stepfather Ron rolled into teenage Dan’s mother’s house in an orange Fiat convertible. They began a thirty-year conversation. Dan’s tribute to “Ron who gave me Shakespeare, Miles Davis, and winter picnics” (plus a killer...
Meet Cute
Let's Talk About Food - December 15, 2020 14:47 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsEvery good Rom-Com starts with a “Meet Cute” story. And what could be cuter than a first date story that revolves around food? In this episode we share two: a cheese-infused one from Sarah and Chris Blackburn, who met, married and are now the publishers and editor of Edible Boston; and one from ...
Feeding the Many
Let's Talk About Food - December 08, 2020 23:08 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn this episode we’ll hear from the President of the Greater Boston Food Bank, Catherine D’Amato and from Northeastern University’s Dining Director, Maureen Timmons. Most of us are inspired to cook meals for those we love. And then, there are those who choose to feed the many. They are a differ...
When a Foodie meets an Immovable Object
Let's Talk About Food - November 30, 2020 22:16 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThis episode features food writer and columnist, Mike Floreak –– and me, your host, Louisa Kasdon. We’ll each share a story about what happens when you love food. And your mother or mother-in-law could care less. Mike Floreak on his mother-in-law, Mary:“Food was just one of the things Mary foun...
Food & Friendship
Let's Talk About Food - November 17, 2020 01:06 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThis episode features our friends, chef Jasper White & chef and author, Annie Copps. They’ll each share a cranky yet funny story about food and friendship––and sealing the deal over a wonderful meal. Jasper White - How A Cranky Diner Became My Best Friend Chef Jasper White is credited nationa...
How Far Will a Chef Go?
Let's Talk About Food - November 17, 2020 00:48 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThis episode two of our favorite chefs, Lydia Shire and Will Gilson. Each will share a story of how far a chef will go for love -- or a recipe. Lydia Shire - How much do I want this recipe? Lydia Shire is simply one of the country’s leading chefs. Named to every high honor in the culinary wor...
Coming Soon, From HRN: Sharing Our Personal Food Stories
Let's Talk About Food - October 21, 2020 22:31 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsComing Soon, from HRN: Because 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. ...
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