Edible Radio host and publisher of Edible Santa Fe, Kate Manchester, talks to Theresa Marquez.
Theresa Marquez has been involved in food and farming since the mid 1970s. Wearing a variety of hats throughout the past 35 years, her current job is Chief Marketing Executive for the largest organic farmer cooperative in the United States, CROPP Cooperative, and its brands Organic Valley Family of Farms® and Organic Prairie Family of Farms®. (www.organicvalley.coop, www.organicprairie.com, www.farmers.coop). CROPP consists of over 1300 small and mid-size family farmers and markets over 200 certified organic products including milk, soy, cheese, butter, spreads, eggs, produce, and meat. Marquez joined the Cooperative in 1995 and has helped to grow the business from $5 million to $527 million in 2008.
Marquez has served on the Board of Directors of the Organic Trade Association (OTA) (www.ota.com) and The Organic Center for Promotion & Education, (www.organic-center.org) a non profit organization dedicated to proving the benefits of organic. She has also served on the Oregon Tilth Certification Advisory Board. Marquez has been a guest speaker at numerous events and conferences including Natural Products Expo, National Nutritional Foods Association, American Marketing Association, Organic Trade Association, Food Marketing Institute, and WKKF Foundation. In addition she pioneered the Food Alliance eco-label and is currently working hard to start a new national tradition—The Earth Dinner (www.earthdinner.org).
Edible Radio host and publisher of Edible Santa Fe, Kate Manchester, talks to Gary Nabhan.
My guest today is Gary Nabhan, he’s an ethnobotanist , and a Research Social Scientist at the SW Center at the U of Az. He’s also a writer, lecturer, food and farming advocate, rural lifeways folklorist, and conservationist. Gary is the founder of RAFT, Renewing American Food Traditions, and he’s here today to talk about his recent trip to the Gulf, and what we can all do to pitch in and help out our neighbors in the Gulf region.
We all understand how the oil spill in the Gulf affects the seafood industry, the countless families and individuals who count on the sea for their livelihoods. We’ve spent more time than we’ve wanted to in the last few months facing the devastation of our precious sea. But what about the longer-term impacts that affect not only the seafood industry, but farmers, market gardeners, gator hunters, crawfish harvesters, and sassafras foragers as well? It’s estimated that some of the rural parishes of the Gulf Coast have already lost five out of ten residents in their communities due to out-migration following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita; if the current closures of fisheries trigger further out-migration, then rare heirloom seeds, fruits, and tubers will be abandoned in gardens, orchards, and storage sheds without anyone to grow or eat them.
Blue Plate Special hosts Kurt and Christine Friese chat with Lynne Rossetto Kasper about her popular radio show "The Splendid Table". And there's a Pantry Raid on how to use a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) weekly share of vegetables and extras.
Victual Reality, the podcast about food politics, is hosted by Tom Philpott. Tom's guest today is Ken Meter.
Ken Meter is probably our foremost thinker on the role of food in creating robust local and regional economies. I first encountered him at a Community Food Security Coalition conference in Atlanta in 2005, where he gave a presentation that forever changed the way I look at agricultural economics. Ken showed that over and over again, in ag-intensive regions across the country, large-scale commodity farming is a net economic loser for farmers and their surrounding communities. He demonstrated that in areas such as the Corn Belt, farmers typically spend more money buying inputs and servicing debt than they bring in selling their crops—and federal commodities subsidies don’t make up the difference. Moreover, right in the middle of some of the world’s most fertile land, almost all the food consumed by Corn Belt residents is trucked in from outside the region—and almost all the region’s food dollars flow out. Add it all up, Ken shows, and industrial agriculture extracts wealth from farming communities and delivers it to input suppliers (think GMO seed giant Monsanto) and grain buyers (think grain traders like Archer Daniels Midland and industrial-meat companies like Tyson).
In part one of my podcast with Ken, we talked about how we got our current farm system, drawing on Ken’s experience as a agriculture journalist in Minnesota during the farm crisis of the 1980s. Next week, we look at the alternative systems sprouting up all over the country—and how food can be used a tool for building wealth in communities, not just extracting it.
Ken is the director of Minneapolis-based Crossroads Resource Center. His pioneering study of the farm and food economy of Southeast Minnesota, Finding Food in Farm Country, can be found here (pdf download); and the rest of her publications can be found here (Publications: Rural Economic Studies).
Welcome to Smart Food, the podcast hosted by Jane Black. Our guest today is Sam Kass, who has just been named the Senior Policy Adviser For Healthy Food Initiatives (his former title was Food Initiative Coordinator).
If you don't recognize the name Sam Kass, you'd probably recognize his face. He's the chef you've seen on TV working in the garden on the White House lawn. You may have also seen him on Top Chef. And the Today Show. The list goes on.
White House chefs have always got some amount of attention but Sam has become a wee bit of a celebrity in his own right In addition to helping to cook for the first family, he has helped shape the first lady's initiative to end childhood obesity in a generation. On our program today, Sam and I talk about how he got his start, how he ended up with his dream job and his work in the White House to change the way Americans eat.
Blue Plate Special hosts Kurt and Christine Friese chat with Sherri Brooks Vinton about her new book "Put ‘em Up!" and on making the most of local, seasonal vegetables, fruits and herbs. Kurt also talks about the United Farm Workers and their new website TakeOurJobs.org.
Say hello to Smart Food, the new podcast hosted by Jane Black. Our inaugural guest is Michel Nischan.
Michel is well-known as a chef. He's cooked for 30 years at four-star restaurants in New York and elsewhere and now owns Dressing Room in Westport Connecticut. But he's becoming increasingly recognized for his work as a good-food advocate. He is the CEO of Wholesome Wave, a non profit that works to bring fresh fruits and vegetables to low-income communities and create new markets for small and medium-sized farmers.
In today's program, Michel and I talk about Wholesome Wave's signature double-voucher program, which allows recipients of food stamps and other food assistance to double their money when they buy food at farmers markets, plus a new, innovative pilot that allows doctors to prescribe fresh fruits and vegetables to families. Michel explains how he hopes to create a model for states and the federal government to bring better food to people at more affordable prices.
Victual Reality, the podcast about food politics, is hosted by Tom Philpott. Tom's guest today is Susan Kegley.
In the waning days of the Bush Administration, the EPA executed what
will likely go down as the single most egregious decision in its
not-always-stellar history: ignoring strong warnings from independent
scientists, it approved use of a pesticide so toxic that scientists
had previously used it to induce cancer in tissue samples. The
chemical, a fumigant called methyl iodide, swiftly went into use in
states with significant production of fruit, mainly strawberries. (I
chronicled the
twisted tale on Grist at the time.) But one key strawberry-growing
state held out: California, which subjected methyl iodide to a
separate review process. Again, independent scientists cried foul; but
now, the state stands on the verge of approving methyl iodide.
In this week’s Victual Reality, the podcast about food politics, I
talk to Susan Kegley, organic chemist and long-time science guru for
California-based Pesticide Action Network of North America. Susan
explains how this stubborn chemical keeps repelling scientists and
gaining favor from politicians--and the next steps in the fight to
keep it out of America’s fruit fields. To keep up with the story,
follow my work on Grist and check Panna’s website, Panna.org.
Edible Radio host and publisher of Edible Santa Fe, Kate Manchester, talks to Frances Moore Lappé.
It was called “the book that started a revolution in the way American’s eat” - Frances Moore Lappé may be best known as the author of Diet for a Small Planet, yet she is the author of 18 books, is the co-founder of three national organizations that explore the roots of hunger, poverty and environmental crises, as well as solutions now emerging worldwide through what she calls Living Democracy. Her most recent book is Getting a Grip 2: Clarity, Creativity and Courage for the World We Really Want.
Victual Reality, the podcast about food politics, is hosted by Tom Philpott. Tom's guest today is Maryn McKenna.
Maryn McKenna is arguably the premier U.S. public health journalist. Not many of her rivals on the beat can boast a bio like this:
Maryn McKenna’s newsroom nickname is Scary Disease Girl, and she earned it. She has reported from inside a field hospital in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, a village on Thailand’s west coast that was erased by the Indian Ocean tsunami, a CDC team investigating the anthrax-letter attacks on Capitol Hill, a graveyard within the Arctic Circle that held victims of the 1918 flu, a malaria hospital in Malawi, and a polio-eradication team in India. She helped uncover the first cases of Gulf War Syndrome and trigger the first Congressional hearings on the illness, and her stories on a small Midwestern town’s cancer clusters helped residents win a nuclear-harm lawsuit against the U.S. government.
In recent years, she has turned her attention to MRSA, the antibiotic resistant staph strain that kills 19,000 Americans every year--more than AIDS. MRSA has a major food angle--today, as much as 70 percent of antibiotics consumed in the United States go into concentrated-animal feedlot operations, or CAFOs. These vast, factory-scale animal farms have been shown to harbor a novel MRSA strain. In this edition of Victual Reality, Maryn and I discussed her new book, Superbug: the Fatal Menace of MRSA.
Edible Radio host and publisher of Edible Santa Fe, Kate Manchester, talks to Susie Middleton.
After a long career in magazine editing and professional cooking, Susie Middleton returned to her first love--writing--in January of 2008. The former Editor (and current Editor at Large) for Fine Cooking magazine, Susie oversaw the development of the magazine, the special issues program, and the website, she wrote dozens of recipe features, many on her specialty--vegetable cooking.
Susie is the author of Fast, Fresh, & Green (Chronicle Books, April 2010) and the host of her website, www.sixburnersue, where she blogs about cooking and growing vegetables.
In addition to blogging on her own site, Susie also occasionally blogs about sustainable food on the Green Page of the Huffington Post
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Founded by Woody Tasch, a pioneer in merging investing and philanthropy, Slow Money's mission is to build local and national networks, and develop new financial products and services. Slow Money is dedicated to investing in small food enterprises, local food systems, connecting investors to their local economies, and building the nurture capital industry. Woody is also the author of Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money
In this show we look at some food-related news reports; interview David Kirby, investigative journalist and the author of Animal Factory; Kurt helps Christine use up foods in her pantry before a move; and Christine shares a food blog she likes called “La Tartine Gourmande”.
Known for her remarkable way with vegetables, Deborah Madison now brings her skill and creativity to her other great passion, cooking with fruit. Deborah revisits the farmers markets she loves so well, introducing readers to a cornucopia of fruits, including some worthy heirlooms, and a wealth of easy ways to enjoy them.
An expert on local produce, Deborah traveled around the country to sample and learn about seasonal fruits first hand. She shares stories reflecting her visits to farms, conversations with farmers, and brings to light the best fruit pairings for every season.
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Joel Salatin, 53, is a fulltime third generation alternative farmer in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. His farm achieved iconic status when it was featured in the New York Times bestseller Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan. >> Listen to the Edible Radio interview here.
Edible Kitchen
Aran Goyoaga shows us that all food blogs are not created equal. A Basque ex-pat living in the US since 1998, Aran grew up in a house full of bakers and pastry chefs, and it’s clearly in her blood. Her blog is a journal of her recipes, travels and life stories. >> Listen to the Edible Radio interview here.
Edible Issues
In Conversation with Lisa Hamilton and Will Harris. Hamilton is the author of Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness. Will Harris is a fifth generation cattle farmer who changed his familys traditional practices of raising corn fed cattle to raise grass fed beef. >> Listen to the Edible Radio interview here.
Edible Authors
Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedge, is the story of Gordon Edgar the cheesemonger at San Francisco's Rainbow Grocery Cooperative whose first book has just been published.>> LIsten to the Edible Radio interview here.
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