Meat + Three

Who can resist a holiday that promotes eating multiple types of pie in a single meal? This week, we're exploring the unexpected sides of Thanksgiving. From culinary historians to turducken enthusiasts, people have a lot of feelings about this holiday. We start by hearing from some food magazine editors, who are well-versed Thanksgiving trends. They start planning for November issues (typically the...

Today’s show is about labels – a surprisingly controversial topic. In our reporting this week, we discovered that people have a lot strong feelings about labels and the meanings that are assigned to them. But if you take a step back, you’ll see that these stories are also about trust. How do we know if labels are accurate – or even necessary? From food and drink to politics and culture – labels ar...

When the leaves start to fall and temperatures begin to drop, one of our favorite things to do is celebrate the funk in food. This week, we bring you four stories about fungi and fermentation. From the magical properties of cheese rinds and sourdough starters – to the complex processes behind co-fermentation and myco-cultivation, this FUNKY show has something for everyone on a mission for great fl...

We’d like to talk to you about food waste. Up to 40% of food in the United States is wasted. That’s about 400 pounds of food per person every year. But who can really fix the problem? Does the responsibility of reducing food waste lie with farmers, restaurateurs… or with us consumers? We look at how one foreign government figured out a way to get individual citizens to get actively involved in sol...

Almost a month ago, Hurricane Florence wreaked havoc on the Carolinas. She displaced thousands of residents and caused billions of dollars in damages. Just this week, Hurricane Michael ravaged a section of Florida's panhandle that has already faced decades of hardship, due to climate change, disappearing industry, and the BP oil spill. Apalachicola, one of the small, historic fishing towns that re...

We decided it was high time we did an episode about Mary Jane. Over the past few years, the legal cannabis industry has been blooming in states across the nation. From recreational use of marijuana, to the resurgence of hemp farming in the American South… weed is here to stay. We begin our journey into the wide world of weed with an excerpt of a recent episode of Cutting the Curd. Host Diane Stemp...

We're bringing you our highlights from Feast Portland – four days of delicious food and some very deep conversations in an airstream trailer. We begin with one of the most buzzed-about events at Feast Portland this year, Zero Proof, an alcohol-free dinner that brought together chefs including Andrew Zimmern and Michael Solomonov. Next, we get an insider's look into the history of Portland's dining...

Do you remember the first cookbook you ever loved? Caity was enthralled by Rose Levy Berenbaum’s The Cake Bible when she was little and spent hours going through her gorgeous photos and awesome recipe names: Enchanted Forest, Strawberry Maria and Chocolate Chestnut Embrace. Years later when she was a teenager, Caity's sister gave her a copy of The Best Recipes in the World by Mark Bittman, which i...

When Kat said she wanted to do a whole episode about football, she got some skeptical looks from the rest of the Meat + Three team…. but by the end of this episode you’ll be just as fascinated by the role food plays on the gridiron as she is. Before we go deep with a look into the diets of football players, we talk tailgating . Imagine hundreds of fans gathered around a stadium – beers in hand, sm...

Tell the truth — do you know how to make arepas from scratch? Or know the difference between white and yellow corn? The kids at The Dynamite Shop do. On this week’s bonus episode, we go behind the scenes at this week-long culinary summer camp and after-school program in Brooklyn that’s calling itself “Home Ec 2.0”. Back in episode 9, "Youth," we talked about a number of organizations, like Seed Li...

This week, we have a bonus segment about what it takes to end hunger in America. Back on episode 10, we brought you a few highlights from our trip to Slow Food Nations. Many of you reached out about one segment in particular: a clip of our interview with John Ikerd. So this week, we bring you that interview in its entirety. We first heard Ikerd speak at the Slow Food Leadership Summit, and became...

For this "snack-sized" episode, we’re joining the Farmers Market Coalition to recognize National Farmers Market Week! This is a great time to talk speak with Ben Feldman, the Policy Director at FMC about farmers, because there is a ton of news about agricultural economics right now. But before we talk about local markets, we step back and take in the bigger picture. On episode two of Meat + Three...

It's the season finale of Meat + Three! A few weeks ago, we presented an episode about youth, so for this week’s theme, we’re flipping the script and focusing on age. We start with a visit to one of Atlanta's most iconic landmarks, Hotel Clermont, which just re-opened! Meet the team behind the hotel's French brasserie, Tiny Lou's, and discover the fascinating history behind its name. Hannah Fordin...

This episode is inspired by a conversation that HRN’s Coral Lee had with Rupa Bhattacharya on Meant to be Eaten . Rupa is the new Editor-In-Chief of VICE’s food channel, Munchies . They dish about how Internet culture changed the food media landscape – for better and for worse – since Rupa’s early days at the Food Network. Jennifer Leuzzi introduces us to a new ag-tech concept from episode 139 of...

We're back from Slow Food Nations – a festival of flavor, culture and exploration organized by Slow Food USA. This year's gathering focused on identifying tangible solutions to problems in the food system and developing specific actionable items for positive change. Towards the end of the festival, the Slow Food International press office sent an email with the subject line “Slow Food Nations embr...

This week, we bring you a report about how migrant children separated from their families at the US border are being housed and fed. Do they have enough to eat, and are the foods provided safe and culturally appropriate? We speak to Rachel Merker, director of Policy and Research at First Focus, a bipartisan advocacy organization dedicated to making children and families the priority in federal pol...

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of cider? That may not be quite how the final draft of the Declaration of Independence turned out, but American Independence, and maybe even the Declaration’s writing, was fueled by fermented apples. George Washington is said to have served 144 gallons of cider during his campaign for Virginia’s House of Burgesses in 1758. John Adams started every morning with a tank...

As we countdown the days until the Fourth of July, team HRN contemplates the deeper meaning of Independence Day, and what it means to be a citizen of the United State of America. We ponder what our Founding Mothers and Fathers sat down to drink after (and before) a long day of revolution, and highlight a story of self-sufficiency on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico and an update on life post-Hur...

The relationship between animals and industry has never been more intertwined than it is today with the pervasiveness of the Agricultural-Industrial Complex. This week’s episode is inspired by the recently released documentary, Eating Animals , which delves into the history of traditional farming practices and the post-WWII shift to the widespread factory farming system. Today, we bring you interv...

It’s June, so all of us at Heritage Radio Network are celebrating Pride month! Pride honors the 1969 Stonewall riots that launched the Gay Liberation Movement here in New York City. Before you binge watch season two of Queer Eye, catch up with this week's episode of Meat + Three . First, we turn to last week’s Supreme Court decision about the baker from Colorado who refused to design a wedding cak...

Before this new episode of Meat + Three, we take a moment to remember Anthony Bourdain, who passed away today. Bourdain was in France working on an upcoming episode of his award-winning CNN series "Parts Unknown." His close friend Eric Ripert found Bourdain unresponsive in his hotel room Friday morning (June 8, 2018). CNN reported that the cause of death was suicide. Bourdain was 61 years old. We...

Since the Times-Picayune broke the news about sexual harassment allegations against New Orleans chef John Besh last fall, the restaurant industry has had to take a hard look at the bad behavior it’s tacitly allowed for years. There are many women in the industry actively trying to make the workplace safer and more equitable for everyone. Hear how an artist, editor, and restaurateur joined forces t...

What do Legos, Salt Bae and a cheese truck have in common? They all play a role in this week's Meat + Three , which is all about the dreaded bureaucratic red tape. To kick things off, we hear from Brandon Hoy, Dave Arnold, Sother Teague, Damon Boelte, and Jimmy Carbone, five of HRN's hosts who are all seasoned bar/restaurant owners in New York. They share some of the strangest red tape they've enc...

Ever since the sizzling news about Chinese tariffs on pork dropped, we knew we'd have to do a Meat + Three episode about pork. This week's show features a deep dive into the tangled relationship between American soybeans and Chinese pork with help from Bettina Ring, Virginia's Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry, and Loren Puette of ChinaAg. To build up our strength to tackle such a dense subjec...

Big triumphs are often followed by bigger letdowns. Our series premiere is about hitting a snag. Vallery Lomas won season four of The Great American Baking Show , but her season never aired due to sexual misconduct allegations against one of the show's judges, Johnny Iuzzini. Mikkel Borg Bjergsø was once a champion runner. After opening his brewery, Mikkeller, he found the steady supply of beer ha...