Heritage Radio Network On Tour

To kick off our coverage of Charleston Wine + Food, Jason Vincent & Ben Lustbader from Giant in Chicago joined Caity Moseman Wadler and Kat Johnson to talk about being business partners, co-chefs and best friends. After taking a hiatus from the kitchen, Jason & Ben developed the idea for Giant after a spontaneous conversation about creating a kebab-style club sandwich. Now, they cook simpl...

Heritage Radio Network's executive director Caity Moseman Wadler sits down with Chef Daniel Porubiansky of Century House Tavern in Woodstock, Georgia. Daniel is hosting a Beard House dinner tomorrow evening titled "Menu for My Mentors" which is a culinary homage to his mentors, honoring their influence course by course. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice...

The former Director of Slow Food International, Renato Sardo runs Baia, the Oakland, CA based pasta company that uses only domestic grains sourced from small farms discusses the labor intensive techniques he uses to ensure quality and preserve pasta making tradition. Sardo also lends his advice on the Trump presidency, seasoned in resistance after living under 20 years of Berlusconi. See Privacy P...

Maple syrup is for more than just pancakes! Caity and David get a taste of Vermont with Eric Sorkin of Runamok Maple and Sivan Cotel of Stonecutter Spirits, talk about Vermont's "little pockets of fantastic industries," and brainstorm why the tiny state is such a powerhouse in the good food movement. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com...

Hate food waste? Us too! Caity and David talk to Daniel Kurzrock, founder of Regrained, at the GFA Mercantile. Regrained picks up the leftover grains from local breweries and uses them to produce an array of edible products such as protein bars. Kurzrock tells the story of how he got the idea for Re-Grained and provides sage advice for others looking to start their own waste stream diversion busin...

HRN isn't the only food business that grew out of a shipping container. Aaron Koch was living in a treehouse and farming in Hawaii, before he sold his car and bought a shipping container to start a chocolate company. Not just any chocolate company... a DRINKING chocolate company! Why drinking chocolate? Why a shipping container? And what's with the treehouse? Listen to find out! See Privacy Policy...

Sarah Weiner is the founder of the Good Food Awards. She came up in the food world working for the likes of Carlo Petrini at Slow Food in Italy and Alice Waters at Chez Panisse in San Francisco, before deciding the food movement needed its own awards show. Weiner tells Caity the story of how she got into food, and the mark she hopes the Good Food Awards can leave on the world. See Privacy Policy a...

Caity and David interview Wendy Testu from Rogue Traders (a farm-fresh frozen tartlette company) and Sue Sturman from Academie Opus Caseus (a cheese travel organization and cheese-making school). They discuss their enterprises and the value of the Good Food Mercantile community, emphasizing the community's commitment to standards, to a way of looking at fresh, artisan food, and to each other as pr...

Heritage Radio hosts Harry Rosenblum and Michael Harlan Turkell team up for "Feast Yr Seen," a GFA mash-up of Feast Your Ears and The Food Seen. They chat about the GFA Mercantile products that stood out to them, the power of labeling, and their vision for increasing diversity (both product and otherwise) in the food industry—where are the black cheesemakers and citrus vinegars? See Privacy Policy...

Angelo Garro, the Sicilian renaissance man known for his role in Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma, is an accomplished blacksmith, chef, thought leader, and founder of Omnivore seasonings and condiments, inspired by the flavors of his home. He sits with Caity and David to discuss Omnivore and the Renaissance Forge, plus how his friendship with Alice Waters began (catching eels under the Gold...

Emily Friedberg and Jeanlouise Conway became friends while working in International Development. Leaving that life behind, they opened Each Peach Market together, a “Corner Grocery” in Washington DC that sources locally produced goods and has a reknowned made-to-order sandwich counter. Caity and David meet Friedberg and Conway at the GFA Mercantile, and find out why they decided to open Each Peach...

Kathy Gunst is a James Beard Award-winning cookbook author and resident chef for WBUR's Here and Now. She gives Caity and David a rundown of her search for trends at the GFA Mercantile (infusions!) and shares her hopes for the next four years (including that the White House kitchen garden stays "gold-free"). See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://a...

Alice Waters gives final remarks at the 2017 Good Food Awards – and because she'll "never been on stage without a farmer," she's joined by "The Gangsta Gardner" Ron Finley. Ron Finley is a man who will not sit still and watch a problem take root. Having grown up in the South Los Angeles food prison, Ron is familiar with the area’s lack of fresh produce. He knew what it’s like to drive 45 minutes j...

Sarah Weiner, the founder of the Good Food Awards, is introduced at the ceremony by Heritage Radio Network’s own Patrick Martins. Sarah has worked side-by-side with the sustainable food movement’s founders and visionaries across the globe. At this year’s awards, Sarah speaks about the power and deep importance of community among our food producers. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy a...

Allison Hooper of Vermont Creamery gives an acceptance speech as a winner in the Good Food Awards Cheese Category. Vermont Creamery was started by two young visionaries devoted to new and non-traditional agriculture, Allison Hooper and Bob Reese. As a college student, Allison spent a summer traveling in France. She worked on a small family farm in Brittany, earning room and board while learning ho...

Seth Cripe of Anna Maria Fish Company gives an acceptance speech as a winner of the Fish Category at the Good Food Awards. Cortez, Florida native Seth Cripe is a self-described bottarga nerd and celebrated Napa Valley wine maker, who several years ago began making his own American bottarga right here in his hometown. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at...

Damaris Ronkanen of Cultura Craft Chocolate gives an acceptance speech as a winner in the Chocolate Category at the Good Food Awards. Chocolate has been a part of Damaris’ story in some form or another for most of her life. When she was a kid, she would visit her grandparents in Mexico where her grandma made the best champurrado (chocolate atole) and mole sauce in town. It was dishes like these th...

Courtney Mailey of Blue Bee Cider gives an acceptance speech at the Good Food Awards. Blue Bee Cider, Virginia’s first urban cidery, received a 2017 Good Food Award for its Harvest Ration reserve dessert cider. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Nadia Hubbi of Sweet Pillar gives an acceptance speech as a winner in the Good Food Awards Pantry category. She is the founder of Sweet Pillar & Co., a California-based company selling chocolate covered dates and traditional ma’amoul cookies artfully crafted in the same way her Syrian grandmother used to make them. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice a...

Clay Oliver of Oliver Farm gives an acceptance speech as a winner in the Oils Category at the Good Food Awards. The Oliver Farm located near Pitts, Georgia in Wilcox County is a family owned and operated working farm. Since 2012 the farm has been recognized by the state of Georgia for being a centennial farm; a farm owned by the same family for 100 years or more. Originally purchased in 1903 by Da...

Shakirah Simley of Bi-Rite Market speaks at the Good Food Awards. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Winona LaDuke, executive director of Honor the Earth and environmentalist leading the fight to protect tribal land claims and preservation, speaks about the importance of protecting traditional plant breeds, such as wild rices, and waterways, including her work against the Dakota Access Pipeline. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/pri...

Caity interviews Alice Waters, chef/founder of Chez Panisse and creator of the Edible Schoolyard program, and Cal Peternell, Chez Panisse chef and award-winning cookbook author. Topics include: Edible Schoolyard, grassroots change in the food movement, and Manoomin wild rice, on the menu at Chez Panisse in partnership with Honor the Earth and supporting the Water Protectors at Standing Rock. See P...

Entrepreneur, environmentalist, and philanthropist Nell Newman, a pioneer in sustainable agriculture and founder of Newman's Own Organics sits down with Caity (over wine and charcuterie) to discuss the Good Food Awards, what it means to be a sustainable food producer today, and how to support sustainable economies in the future. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privac...

Heritage Radio Network and Full Service Radio were at the scene at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History Food History Gala as chef Rick Bayless was presented with the second ever Julia Child Award from the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts. HRN Producer-at-Large Jack Inslee spoke with chef Rick Bayless and Eric W. Spivey, Chairman of the Board of Trustees...