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Robin Bodak (co-owner and head chef) and Dignity Maille (cook) of the restaurant Next Door talk about their women-centric kitchen culture, outstanding and unpretentious food, cultural appropriation vs kitchen creativity, and the real challenges of running a restaurant that values both the workers and local farmers.
JUN 14, 2019
A collection of short stories on the lives and work of twelve people who explore the landscape of race, change making, education & community around Connecticut. Host Tagan Engel recorded these stories and many more as part of a larger multi media project in 2018 to mark the 25th anniversary year of the Graustein Memorial Fund.
Entrepreneur Ariana Yuen shares the successes and challenges of starting her new single origin honey business Maryiza, based in the Gera Forest in Ethiopia.
Tagan Engel’s speech given in honor of her grandparents for the Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony in New Haven, CT 2019.
Brother Tommy Joshua Caison, co-founder and Director of the North Philly Peace Park talks about transformative healing and fence free food forests within this African American community.
Rebroadcast of a three part show from 2017: Mohegan Maple Moon with Rachel Sayet - Tapping trees in the city with 8 year old Sam - and Marshall Cruz shares his wild story of how he started cooking and dreaming of a Grits n' Gravy food truck.
Entrepreneur Domingo Medina, on addressing climate crisis through Peels & Wheels Compost - his bike, solar, and people powered composting business.
Guests from A Pinch of Salt, Dave’s Angry Sauce, and Love Breakfast talk about their passions for food, supporting Black and Brown owned food businesses, and spreading their fresh food love to everyone.
Guests Eric Rey and Sumiya Khan talk about their two ventures which use soup as a vehicle for sharing culture, building community, and supporting entrepreneurship in New Haven, CT.
A personal reflection on living through the fall “holiday” season as a Native American person, as well as articles, videos, and books, most from Indigenous authors, to help you learn more about the true history of Thanksgiving.
Pie baker and serial entrepreneur Mubarakah Ibrahim is on a mission to fix local policies to support micro-food businesses like her's. With a step by step conversation on how to start a food business, and being the change you want to see!
Summer time rest and rejuvenation, fabulous food adventures and progressive communities in the green mountains of southern Vermont.
10 year-old girl, Tomistela Engel-Halfkenny shares her favorite books featuring inspiring girls and women including many black and brown women in HERstory... and how reading them impacts her view of herself.
Four fab food lovers, dish on Summer Food Finds in CT... an outrageous ice cream trail, vegan soft serve, Pow Wow foods, a chef’s adventures with his daughters, BBQ, tacos and more! With guests Babz Rawls Ivy, Rachel Sayet, and Franco Comacho.
Guests Kay Holness and Nadine Nelson dig into delicious food from restaurants featured in the first ever New Haven, CT Caribbean Restaurant Week. We talk flavors, culinary history and food as a great connector for overcoming an anti-immigrant climate.
Greg Smith talks about finding his purpose and joy in food, and the impact the ConnCAT Culinary Arts program had on him as a black man trying to find supports to live a vibrant life and better the community around him.
AN EDUCATION PROJECT STORY: Guest Kia Levey-Burden shares her struggles with a school district punishing her son due to his learning needs and race.
Chef Gabriela Alvarez of Liberation Cuisine shares her journey into food, cooking for social justice movements and solidarity work in Puerto Rico. Feat: music by Taina Asili & La Banda Rebelde.
The LoveFed duo share inspiring stories about their great grandparents seeding their passion for gardening and their new vision for transforming lives and communities one home garden at a time.
A joint conversation with Lucy Gellman of The Kitchen Sync podcast about the importance of telling the passover holiday liberation story and the complications and responsibilities of being a white Jew. Oh and some food talk too...
