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In this episode of Eat. Drink. Think, host Amy O'Neill Houck speaks with Julia O’Malley about wild Alaska salmon. As a third-generation Alaskan, and a journalist, teacher, editor, and cook, Julia's work in newsrooms, classrooms, and kitchens explores Alaska’s culture, politics, climate, and food. This conversation builds on a recent article O’Malley wrote for Edible Communities titled “ Al...

In this episode of Eat. Drink. Think, we speak with Twilight Greenaway and Reginaldo Haslett-Maroquin. Twilight is the executive editor of Civil Eats and is the author of a recent story that was done in partnership with Edible Communities. Reginaldo, or Regi, is featured in the story as he shares the history and vision for Tree-Range Farms , a Minnesota-based network of over forty farms stewarding...

In this episode of Eat. Drink. Think., we talk with Alicia Kennedy , an acclaimed journalist and author of the new book, No Meat Required: the Cultural History & Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating . We discuss how the book examines what it has meant to be vegetarian throughout the last several generations. From religious asceticism, via hippy counterculture, punk and post punk, all the way...

In this episode of Eat. Drink. Think, we talk with Lisa Held, senior staff reporter with Civil Eats, about two agricultural innovations that are at once ancient and modern: agroforestry and biochar. We unpack the techniques and talk about both the promise and challenge they hold for farmers adapting to the climate crisis. Lisa wrote two articles: “Biochar’s Big, Carbon-Rich Moment,” and “Can Farmi...

In this episode, host Amy O’Neill Houck speaks with Paloma Lopez, a self-described Impact Food Entrepreneur, sustainability consultant, and the CEO and co-founder of Future Fit Foods—a food startup based in Longmont, Colorado. We talk about a rethink of the supply chain as a value chain, a shift in food production focus towards circularity, and a redefinition of what convenience means now and in t...

No Farms. No Food . A catchy tagline, but also an undeniable truth. American farmland not only grows our food, it is the foundation of rural communities, providing jobs, recreational opportunities and a connection to the land. Purchasing your food directly from farmers, ranchers and other food producers at farmers’ markets has a huge impact on the economic viability of farming. Studies have shown...

In this episode of Eat. Drink. Think., host Amy O’Neill Houck is speaking with Chloe Sorvino, who leads food and agriculture coverage for Forbes magazine. Nearly a decade of reporting at Forbes has brought her to In-N-Out Burger’s secret test kitchen, drought-ridden farms in California’s Central Valley, burnt-out national forests logged by a timber billionaire, and a century-old slaughterhouse bus...

In this episode of Eat. Drink. Think. , host Amy O'Neill Houck is speaking with Tamar Haspel, columnist, author, and co-host of the Climavores podcast. She talks about her experience with first-hand food which includes raising chickens, pigs and oysters and foraging for mushrooms. We also weigh the cost of food both locally and commercially, the best way to get healthy food on tables (spoiler...

In this episode of Eat. Drink. Think. host Amy O'Neill Houck is speaking with Sana Javeri Kadri, founder and CEO of  Diaspora Co. , a direct trade, single-origin spice company dedicated to building a better spice.   Sana began Diaspora Co, a company which has upended the supply chain of the centuries-old spice trade, at the wise and energetic age of 23—just a few years and a pandemic ago, in 2...

Consumers make food buying choices that empower small scale producers to do what they love, well. Empowered small scale producers necessarily produce and harvest their foods in the most sustainable ways because only via environmentally friendly practices can they foster the long term health of the food system. Land is better tended. Communities are better supported. Changes to a better the food sy...

In her new memoir,  Slow Cooked , Dr. Nestle says, “I still believe that studying food is an exceptionally effective and accessible way to get at the most vexing societal problems that affect all of us. Food is about taste and pleasure, but it is also about nutrition, health, community and culture. I am hard-pressed to think of a problem in society that cannot be understood more deeply by examinin...

We can thank the process of fermentation for a lot of the foods and drinks we love such as beer, wine, kimchi, bread, cheese and kombucha. Since long before recorded history and into the future, fermentation has been—and will be—an essential way for people to effectively use the food resources available to them. In this episode of  Eat. Drink. Think. , host Amy O'Neill Houck is talking with Sa...

In this episode, we’ll be speaking with Emily Payne. Emily is a writer covering the intersection of food, agriculture, climate, and health. She focuses on regenerative food systems and profiles farmers in transition to more sustainable practices. She’s served as editor of the global sustainable food nonprofit Food Tank since 2015 and worked with a series of ag-tech startup companies, focusing on h...

In this episode, we’ll be speaking with Danielle Nierenberg. Danielle is the President of Food Tank, which she co-founded with Bernard Pollack in 2013 to build a global community for safe, healthy, nourished eaters. She's the recipient of the 2020 Julia Child Award. Danielle contributed to the fourth in a series of pieces produced by Edible Communities for publication in Edible magazines acros...

In this episode, we’ll begin by speaking with Twilight Greenaway, senior editor at Civil Eats, and then have a conversation with Frances Moore Lappe, author of the 50th anniversary edition of Diet for a Small Planet, and her daughter and contributor, Anna Lappé. Both conversations take different looks at what we eat, how we eat, and the climate crisis.   Twilight Greenaway is the senior editor at...

In this episode of Eat, Drink, Think we’re digging into the important issue of Hunger. Unfortunately, it’s more timely than ever. Last year saw the first uptick in food insecurity in America in years because of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Our guests are: Ben Perkins, CEO of Wholesome Wave, a national nonprofit working to increase access to healthy food for all. Before joining Wholesome Wave, Ben held...

Today I'm talking with Kay Cornelius, a fourth generation rancher and the new general manager at Panorama Organic as well as Marshall Johnson, vice president of Audubon's conservation ranching initiative. And before you go shopping for your sustainable grass fed beef, you'll definitely want to hear my conversation with Marilyn Noble, a food writer and recipe developer with special expe...