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Animal Studies December 2, 2022

The Vegan Matrix

Understanding and Discussing Privilege Among Vegans to Build a More Inclusive and Empowered Movement

Melanie Joy

Hosted by Kyle Johannsen
A short guidebook to understanding and discussing privilege among vegans and vegan organizations in the wake of #metoo, including how to establish accountability while honoring dignity and ways to communicate …

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Ukrainian Studies November 30, 2022

Ukraine, Food and History

Olena Braichenko, Maryna Hrymych, Ihor Lylo, and Vitaly Reznichenko

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Ukraine: Food and History (O. Braichenko, 2020) tells about the past and present of Ukrainian cuisine. It includes recipes of dishes that everyone can cook and local products, which together present …
Russian and Eurasian Studies November 28, 2022

The Kingdom of Rye

A Brief History of Russian Food

Darra Goldstein

Hosted by Yelizaveta Raykhlina
The Kingdom of Rye: A Brief History of Russian Food (U California Press, 2022) unearths the foods and flavors of the Russian land. Preeminent food studies scholar Darra Goldstein offers readers …
Public Policy November 21, 2022

Eating While Black

Food Shaming and Race in America

Psyche A. Williams-Forson

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
In Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America (UNC Press, 2022), Psyche A. Williams-Forson offers her knowledge and experience to illuminate how anti-Black racism operates in the practice …
Food November 21, 2022

Chocolate

How a New World Commodity Conquered Spanish Literature

Erin Alice Cowling

Hosted by Daniela Gutierrez Flores
In terms of its popularity, as well as its production, chocolate was among the first foods to travel from the New World to Spain. Chocolate: How a New World Commodity …
Sociology November 10, 2022

Food Instagram

Identity, Influence, and Negotiation

Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish

Hosted by Rituparna Patgiri
Image by image and hashtag by hashtag, Instagram has redefined the ways we relate to food. Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish’s edited book Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and …
Public Policy November 8, 2022

Who Cares

The Social Safety Net in America

Christopher Howard

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
Societies are often judged by how they treat their most vulnerable members: the poor and near poor. In the United States, this responsibility belongs not only to governments, but also …
Sociology November 3, 2022

Schools, Space and Culinary Capital

Gurpinder Singh Lalli

Hosted by Rituparna Patgiri
Gurpinder Singh Lalli's book Schools, Space and Culinary Capital (Routledge, 2022) introduces the notion of culinary capital to investigate socialisation and school mealtime experiences in an academy school based in the UK …
Business, Management, and Marketing November 2, 2022

Unreasonable Hospitality

The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect

Will Guidara

Hosted by Christopher Russell
Today I talked to Will Guidara, author of Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect (Optimism Press, 2022). Will Guidara was twenty-six when he took the …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel October 25, 2022

Sustainable Agriculture in the Global South: A Religious Response to the Global Food Crisis

A Conversation with Rabbi Micha Odenheimer, Founder and Director of Tevel b’Tzedek

Rabbi Micha Odenheimer

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
Micha Odenheimer is the founder and director of Tevel B’Zedek, an Israeli NGO that aims to create Israeli and Jewish leadership passionately engaged in Tikkun Olam – fixing the world – locally …
On Religion October 24, 2022

Ecological Ethics in the Jewish Community Farming Movement

A Discussion with Adrienne Krone

Adrienne Krone

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Adrienne Krone is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Jewish Life at Allegheny College. She has a Ph.D. in American Religion from Duke University. Her research focuses on …
American West October 19, 2022

Crush

The Triumph of California Wine

John Briscoe

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
In 1910, the future of California wine looked dim. Beset by crises ranging from earthquakes to insect infestations, and with momentum moving toward prohibition, the nascent industry seemed dead on …
Sociology October 12, 2022

The Social Significance of Dining Out

A Study of Continuity and Change

Alan Warde, Jessica Paddock, and Jennifer Whillans

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Dining out used to be considered exceptional. However, the Food Standards Authority reported that in 2014, one meal in six was eaten away from home in Britain. Previously considered a …
Jewish Studies October 7, 2022

Be Fruitful!

The Etrog in Jewish Art, Culture and History

Warren Klein, Sharon Liberman Mintz, and Joshua Teplitsky

Hosted by Matthew Miller
The etrog is a curious fruit. The Bible commands its readers: “And you shall take for yourselves on the first day beautiful tree-fruit (peri etz hadar), palm fronds, boughs of …
Animal Studies October 6, 2022

Reading Veganism

The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present

Emelia Quinn

Hosted by Callie Smith
Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present (Oxford UP, 2021) focuses on the iteration of the trope of ‘the monstrous vegan’ across 200 years of Anglophone literature. Explicating, through such monsters …
Food October 3, 2022

Finding Turtle Farm

My Twenty-Acre Adventure in Community-Supported Agriculture

Angela Tedesco

Hosted by Elizabeth Barrett
This is the tale of one woman's journey of growing a community-supported farm from earth to plate. In 1995 Angela Tedesco bought a twenty-acre farm with the goal of growing …
Nordic Asia Podcast September 30, 2022

Beyond Meat?

Dietary Shifts and Meat Contestations in China, India and Vietnam

Helene Ramnæs, Marius Korsnes, Kenneth Bo Nielsen, and Arve Hansen

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
What explains the uneven meatification of diets in three of Asia’s core ‘emerging economies’? How and why is meat consumption changing today, and what role have American fast-food chains played …
Asian Review of Books September 22, 2022

Water, Wood, and Wild Things

Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town

Hannah Kirshner

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
A young sake bar owner, Yusuke Shimoki, arrives on the doorstep of Hannah Kirshner’s Brooklyn apartment “with a suitcase full of Ishikawa sake,” in Hannah’s words. That visit sparked a …
Public Policy September 20, 2022

Retail Inequality

Reframing the Food Desert Debate

Kenneth H. Kolb

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate (U California Press, 2021) examines the failure of recent efforts to improve Americans' diets by increasing access to healthy food. Based on exhaustive …
Environmental Studies September 19, 2022

Sixty Harvests Left

How to Reach a Nature-Friendly Future

Philip Lymbery

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
From the United Kingdom to Italy, from Brazil to the Gambia to the USA, Philip Lymbery, the internationally acclaimed author of Farmageddon, goes behind the scenes of industrial farming and …