All-star band founders Wayne Escoffery and Jeremy Pelt on the importance of celebrating Jazz as Black music, being positive role models and fantastic compositions inspired by African American icons.
Radical Business Building at Foodlab Detroit w/ Devita Davison
Passionate conversation about transforming communities and businesses through radical relationship building at Foodlab Detroit.
Cardamom, Apple & Honey Challah for the New Year
This woven braid is easier to make than it looks and helps us bring sweetness and renewal into life when we most need it.
Eating Weeds w/Bun Lai of Miya's Sushi
Chef Bun Lai of Miya's Sushi takes us foraging for weeds, talks climate change, gut health and cracks jokes while making sushi in his family's 35+ year old restaurant.
Socca Chickpea Flatbread
The crisp caramelized edges of this delicious chickpea flour flat bread are irresistible. A new recipe thats easy and good for you.
Introducing THE FOOD SQUAD: Summer Food Finds (Live Show)
The FOOD SQUAD - a fab group of food lovers, dishing on Summer Food Finds...from a Super-licious ice cream trail, to pow wow foods, to chef adventures with his daughters, BBQ, tacos and more!This is not your average food show!
The Super-licious Ice Cream Trail of New Haven, CT (and beyond) 2017
This is not your usual list of ice cream spots. From oceanfront to city streets, to country farms, you'll find scoop shops, flavors and styles of frozen treats you didn't know where here. Plus nearby & notable things to do and places to eat.
Legislative Theater
Theater of the oppressed NYC sparks innovative policy changes. An interview with director Katy Rubin.
Field of Greens
Growing community, food and beauty in a former vacant lot in the Hill neighborhood of New Haven, CT. An interview with gardener, activist and grandma, Jamilah Rasheed.
Nurturing All Children
Mother, Montessori education enthusiast, and black breastfeeding advocate Amelia Sherwood talks about her passion for supportive joyous community and the importance of nurturing black & brown children and families.
Live Cereal
Delicious versatile cereal, perfect for summer, and you'll feel great to start your day.
The Beauty of Real Ice Cream
Ice cream entrepreneur Netta Hadari talks about his passionate quest to create real ice cream, commercially produced with amazing flavors and no artificial ingredients or stabilizers. And... when you care about social justice, why does ice cream matter?
Organizing for Freedom
Organizing for Freedom - Live Episode. CT Core - Organize Now! founders & husband and wife team Isa Mujahid and Camelle Scott-Mujahid share their insights into grassroots organizing to transform the racial and economic inequity in the state of Connecticut and beyond.
Summer Thirst Quenchers
Fabulous drinks for the summer heat....no sugar needed. And we made them all on Love Babz Radio!
Basbousa: Syrian Semolina Yogurt Cake
Fatema's special family recipe for this delicious cake that's easy to make. Orange flower and rose water add wonderful fragrance and flavor to the syrup that drenches this fab cake.
Sanctuary Kitchen
Hear from Sanctuary Kitchen co-founder Sumiya Kahn about this new organization that helps talented refugee cooks connect with their new communities by offering cooking classes, supper clubs and starting food businesses. Fatema, a warm and charming cook who is a refugee from Syria, shares her impressions of life and food in America, and her family recipe for Basbousa, a semolina yogurt cake, soaked in rose and orange flower water syrup. A wonderful balance of real life and sweet pleasures.
Healing from History: Holland & the Holocaust
Host Tagan Engel, and more than 40 members of her family traveled to Holland for a holocaust memorial in honor of her grandmother Selma Wynberg Engel and the Wynberg family. Guest Saul Fussiner joins Tagan to discuss their shared history as grandchildren of survivors, and how people and societies try and heal from genocide. Saul also shares about the Facing History Facing Ourselves Curriculum he uses as a high school teacher.
Workers Rights
Four restaurant workers, Oscar, Antonio, Ivan and Raffael shed light on the abusive working conditions they experienced at a local restaurant. Together with two other workers they filed a federal law suit in April 2017 with support from Unidad Latina en Acción and New Haven Legal Assistance Association.
Cuba Underground: A glimpse of life 2017
Digging into host Tagan Engel's recent trip to Cuba with Cuban American scholar Albert Laguna. Talking food, culture, race, history and Cuba today.
Afro Seder & Y-Love Hip Hop
A Black Jewish liberation passover seder at Soul Fire Farm draws on the parallel stories of Moses and Harriet Tubman to honor the struggle for freedom. Hip Hop and wise words from Y-Love, a talented rapper who is Black, Latino, Jewish and Gay... and you should hear him spit in Yiddish. And as always some fabulous recipes including Haitian Liberation Soup and Pavlova with Pink Grapefruit Curd & Cherries.