FoodTravelUSA with Elizabeth Dougherty

Food Travel USA with Elizabeth Dougherty Album: The TRUTH About Food and Travel 081625 Episode #:  Original Broadcast Date: 08/16/2025 This week's Food Travel USA Taste Test hits close to home.  We love coffee, but that morning cup of brew needs a bit of flavoring... in the form of coffee creamer.   As we discovered, most coffee creamers are a chemical nightmare for your health, and as you'll hear...

Food Travel USA with Elizabeth Dougherty Album: The TRUTH About Food and Travel 081625 Episode #:  Original Broadcast Date: 08/16/2025 When you sit down at a restaurant, you expect a meal—not an experiment. Elizabeth pulls back the curtain on how restaurants are increasingly used as testing grounds for food companies. From new chemical additives to unproven lab-grown ingredients, customers are oft...

Food Travel USA with Elizabeth Dougherty Album: The TRUTH About Food and Travel 081625 Episode #:  Original Broadcast Date: 08/16/2025 Food safety rules are shifting in big ways, but you wouldn’t know it if you only followed the mainstream press. Elizabeth takes a hard look at how major regulatory changes are being made quietly, with little to no media attention, leaving consumers in the dark abou...

Food Travel USA with Elizabeth Dougherty Album: The TRUTH About Food and Travel 081625 Episode #:  Original Broadcast Date: 08/16/2025 Elizabeth turns her focus to one of the biggest health concerns hiding in plain sight—seed oils. These oils, found in nearly every packaged food and restaurant kitchen, have been linked to inflammation, obesity, and long-term health damage. Despite mounting evidenc...

Food Travel USA with Elizabeth Dougherty Album: The TRUTH About Food and Travel 081625 Episode #:  Original Broadcast Date: 08/16/2025 Restaurants are a battlefield, and sometimes the mood takes a decidedly political turn.  This week in Servers Revenge, you'll hear how a former restaurant worker dealt with a current worker over a touchy subject, meat! FOOD TRAVEL USA FAST FACTS About the Show Usin...

Food Travel USA with Elizabeth Dougherty Album: The TRUTH About Food and Travel 080925 Episode #:  Original Broadcast Date: 08/09/2025 In 2013, an  Australian teenager posted this picture and a story online that his "Foot Long" sandwich from Subway wasn't actually 12" long. So having a curiosity about such things (and the fact that we were hungry) we jumped into action! We spoke with noted Tampa B...

Food Travel USA with Elizabeth Dougherty Album: The TRUTH About Food and Travel 080925 Episode #:  Original Broadcast Date: 08/09/2025 Elizabeth counts down ten once-in-a-lifetime classic hotels across the U.S. and Canada that deserve a spot on any traveler’s bucket list. From historic grandeur to unmatched views, each offers something unique and unforgettable. She shares their standout features,...

Food Travel USA with Elizabeth Dougherty Album: The TRUTH About Food and Travel 080925 Episode #:  Original Broadcast Date: 08/09/2025 Elizabeth counts down the Top 10 most significant updates to Recommended Dietary Allowances and nutrition label requirements. From changes to daily values for key vitamins to stricter rules on added sugar and salt disclosures, the FDA’s revisions are reshaping what...

Food Travel USA with Elizabeth Dougherty Album: The TRUTH About Food and Travel 080925 Episode #:  Original Broadcast Date: 08/09/2025 Elizabeth explores an unusual scientific observation — some centenarians from the Chernobyl region may have been protected from radiation effects by a simple, common compound: apple pectin. Researchers suggest that pectin, naturally found in apples, may bind with c...

Food Travel USA with Elizabeth Dougherty Album: The TRUTH About Food and Travel 080925 Episode #:  Original Broadcast Date: 08/09/2025 Elizabeth shares an eyebrow-raising “Server’s Revenge” story about a restaurant plagued by faulty refrigeration. After management ignored repeated warnings about spoiled food, frustrated employees risked retaliation for simply telling the truth.  This story is less...

Food Travel USA with Elizabeth Dougherty Album: The TRUTH About Food and Travel 080925 Episode #:  Original Broadcast Date: 08/09/2025 Elizabeth calls out the bizarre logic of so-called “environmental warriors” in Amsterdam who staged a waterborne blockade to stop a Celebrity cruise ship from docking. Using kayaks and canoes, the protestors claimed they were protecting the environment — yet their...

Food Travel USA with Elizabeth Dougherty Album: The TRUTH About Food and Travel 080925 Episode #:  Original Broadcast Date: 08/09/2025 There's a growing trend across the country — more states moving to ban soda, candy, and other junk foods from being purchased with SNAP benefits. While supporters say these changes promote healthier diets and save taxpayer money, critics claim the bans are punitive...

Food Travel USA with Elizabeth Dougherty Album: The TRUTH About Food and Travel 080925 Episode #:  Original Broadcast Date: 08/09/2025 Elizabeth digs into OBBB’s plan to finally rip out America’s creaking air-traffic control system and replace it with something worthy of the 21st century. For years, Washington slapped on Band-Aid fixes—patchwork software, piecemeal hardware swaps, endless change o...

Food Travel USA with Elizabeth Dougherty Album: The TRUTH About Food and Travel 080925 Episode #:  Original Broadcast Date: 08/09/2025 Elizabeth examines backlash against Delta after its AI-based reservation system allegedly caused discriminatory booking practices. Are passengers being denied certain fare options or targeted with higher prices based on their personal data. Elizabeth digs into how...

Food Travel USA with Elizabeth Dougherty Album: The TRUTH About Food and Travel 080925 Episode #:  Original Broadcast Date: 08/09/2025 Elizabeth reports on the spread of chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus now prompting travel alerts in multiple countries. She explains its symptoms, where outbreaks are growing, and the steps travelers should take to protect themselves. The alerts could affect vaca...

Food Travel USA with Elizabeth Dougherty Album: The TRUTH About Food and Travel 080225 Episode #: 1967 Original Broadcast Date: 12/3/2011 From the Food Travel USA Archives. In 2011, Elizabeth Dougherty spoke with Boulder Weekly columnist and former Boulder city councilman Paul Danish for a wide-ranging interview on GMOs, glyphosate, and the politics of food. At the time, Danish had just published...

Food Travel USA with Elizabeth Dougherty Album: The TRUTH About Food and Travel  Episode #: 1966 Original Broadcast Date: 05/18/2019 Listen to the Elizabeth's unplanned, unrehearsed and heartfelt opening monologue from the Food Travel USA broadcast on Saturday 5/18/2019. For the official record:  Elizabeth is NOT an "anti-vaxxer" or a conspiracy theorist, nor is she telling you NOT to vaccinate yo...

Food Travel USA with Elizabeth Dougherty Album: The TRUTH About Food and Travel  Episode #: 1965 Original Broadcast Date: 12/05/2020 This is a story that directly affects all in the hospitality industry regarding Covid transmission. Documents obtained by Food Travel USA show a study was done by Italian pathologists indicating possible fraud related to Covid cases. This study was initially endorsed...

Food Travel USA with Elizabeth Dougherty 2025-0802 FOOD TRAVEL USA WITH ELIZABETH DOUGHERTY The TRUTH About Food and Travel Album:  The TRUTH About Food & Travel 080225 Episode #:  1964 Original Broadcast Date: 08/02/25 FULL SHOW:   Now, (after 65 years of allowing POISONOUS JUNK into the food supply) the FDA wants to define the the term “ultra processed food”— not to protect you, but we suspe...

Food Travel USA with Elizabeth Dougherty Album: The TRUTH About Food and Travel 080225 Episode #: 1963 Original Broadcast Date: 08/02/2025 You can see it coming,  They’re about to hijack the dictionary again. After allowing JUNK into the food supply for decades, now the U.S. government wants to “officially” define what counts as an ultra processed food — as if the piles of preservatives, lab-made...

Food Travel USA with Elizabeth Dougherty Album: The TRUTH About Food and Travel 080225 Episode #: 1962 Original Broadcast Date: 08/02/2025 Every selfie is a breadcrumb. Elizabeth reveals how your phone silently embeds GPS coordinates into every photo you take — by default. That means anyone with access to your pics can track exactly where you’ve been, when you were there, and who you were with. Fr...

Food Travel USA with Elizabeth Dougherty Album: The TRUTH About Food and Travel 080225 Episode #: 1959 Original Broadcast Date: 08/02/2025 This week in Servers Revenge, a customer bit into dinner and found an actual molar in their entrée. No, this isn’t urban legend territory — and worse yet, instead management offered a lame excuse. You'll also hear how some restaurants have created "workarounds"...

Food Travel USA with Elizabeth Dougherty Album: The TRUTH About Food and Travel 080225 Episode #: 1961 Original Broadcast Date: 08/02/2025 You think you’re choosing between brands — but you’re not. Elizabeth exposes how the top 10 grocery brands in America are now just shiny labels owned by the same handful of multinational giants. This segment breaks down the illusion of variety at your local sup...

Food Travel USA with Elizabeth Dougherty Album: The TRUTH About Food and Travel 080225 Episode #: 1960 Original Broadcast Date: 08/02/2025 These aren’t just tourist stops — they’re sacred ground. Elizabeth counts down the Top 10 Native American spiritual sites in the U.S., each pulsing with ancestral energy and deep, ancient meaning. From cliffside dwellings to mist-shrouded mountains, these are p...

Food Travel USA with Elizabeth Dougherty Album: The TRUTH About Food and Travel 080225 Episode #: 1958 Original Broadcast Date: 08/02/2025 Airline mishaps are on the rise — and it’s not just bad luck. Elizabeth breaks down a wave of recent flight emergencies, near-misses, and system meltdowns, revealing how fragile the aviation grid has become. From software outages that grounded entire fleets to...