Chef, Urban Planner, and Black foodways sustainer Adrian Lipscombe shares on the Juneteenth holiday past and present, her move from Texas to Wisconsin, and the importance of rooting her restaurant in community.
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3 Chefs - 3 Perspectives on the Covid Shutdown
CT Chefs Avi Sazpiro of Roia Restaurant, Raquel Rivera of A Pinch of Salt Culinary Education & Catering Company, and Chef Aaron Lee of Yale University Dining & Heartfelt Catering speak to the many ways this pandemic is impacting their work and communities.
Our Food in the Time of Quarantine: 3 Perspectives
Insights on the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic from a wholesale produce distributor, an urban farmer / food justice educator, and tips on cooking in quarantine.. With guests Maria Desarbo of Carbonella & Desarbo’s , Disha Patel of Common Ground High School & Urban Farm , and host Tagan Engel.
APR 17, 2020
APR 17, 2020
The Gefilteria Crew on Passover & Reimagining Ashkenazi Foods
Fab culinary duo Liz Alpern & Jeffery Yoskowitz of The Gefilteria sit down (pre Covid-19 quarantine) to nosh and kibbitz about old family recipes, the wide spectrum of Jewish ethnic cuisines, Asha-normativity, producing tons of great gefilte fish each year, liberation stories, and passover traditions.
Bryant Terry & Vegetable Kingdom
Chef, activist, and author Bryant Terry on his newest plant-based cookbook Vegetable Kingdom - cooking for his kids - uplifting Black and Asian food traditions - and collective actions to transform our "messed up food system".
Coquito Season
This homemade coconut milk based cocktail is the pride of the Puerto Rican holiday season. Guests Addys Castillo, and champion coquito maker Aida Casanova talk family recipes, parranda (caroling) traditions, and the complexities and joys of Puerto Rican history and heritage.
Witnesses To Hunger
Three women speak on the realities of hunger and poverty and their inspiring advocacy work to make lasting change through the group Witnesses To Hunger. With guests Susan Harris, Junie Cullum, and Wanda Perez.
The Food Squad Fall Edition 2019 Live
Fall food adventures help heal depression, Chicken & Sweet Potato Dumpling soup, front porch living in the Hood, talking to strangers = fun food finds = dosa making and heirloom apple munching in VT. W/ guests Babz Rawls Ivy, Frankie Douglass, and Chef Stephen Ross.
NOV 1, 2019
Teen Entrepreneurs Inspired by Gardens
Giselle Cando & Anajja Stevenson talk about starting their own businesses, working in community gardens, and life as teens in the world today. Feat. the Growing Entrepreneurs Program of the New Haven Land Trust.
Berlin, Reparations, and The Holocaust
Host Tagan Engel speaks about her recent trip to Berlin to partner with a group doing transformational education work around the Nazi death camp, Sobibor, her Grandparents escaped form in 1943.
Sourdough Geek Out
Atticus Bakery & Bookstore manager Charlie Negaro Jr and baker Josh Kanter talk about their glorious infatuation with sourdough bread making & grain growing - two exceptional new ventures for this 2nd generation establishment in New Haven, CT.
Heartfelt Cooking with Aaron Lee
An inspired Chef shares on his catering co, trying to get folks to try new healthy foods, his journey from Dishwasher to Sous Chef in Yale University Dining, and the stereotypes he faces as a young Black Chef.
The Food Squad Does Strawberries
Iroquois Strawberry Drink, Sexy Strawberry Vinaigrette, Mohegan friendship berries, Black food wisdom, Grandma's Jam, the berry pickers boycott, and more! Guests Rachel Sayet, Raquel Pablo Rivera, and Farron Harvey dig in with host Tagan Engel on, culture, race, joy, and liberation through strawberries.
When Women Chefs Run The Kitchen
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
STORYSCAPE
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.
Forest Honey - supporting beekeepers & the environment in Ethiopia
Entrepreneur Ariana Yuen shares the successes and challenges of starting her new single origin honey business Maryiza, based in the Gera Forest in Ethiopia.
Striving for Reparations: Land, Food, and Self-Determination in the North Philly Peace Park
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.
Yoruba Orisa Tradition in Practice
Babalawo, Priest of Ifa Enroue Halfkenny, Onigbana Sangofemi (and husband of host Tagan Engel ;-) shares an overview of the traditional religion of the Yoruba people, and what it looks like in daily life. He speaks on this indigenous African tradition as a path towards personal and communal healing and a wholistic framework for healing our broken society.
Rebroadcast: Maple Moon, City Tree Tapping & Grits n' Gravy
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.
Growing Compost in the City
Entrepreneur Domingo Medina, on addressing climate crisis through Peels & Wheels Compost - his bike, solar, and people powered composting business.