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".
Easy Plant-based Chocolates - ginger/rum & cardamom/lemon
Decadent treats with no refined sugar, perfect for valentines day and sharing with your heart’s desire.
Coquito Recipes
Two recipes for this extremely popular Puerto Rican coconut milk based holiday season cocktail - including Aida Casanova’s award winning version, and Addy’s Castillo’s family recipe.
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.
Plum Cake Reimagined
A classic, deliciously revised with oats, dates, nuts, and coconut oil replacing the usual flour, sugar, and butter. So good and good for you.
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
Easy Homemade Yogurt
A fool-proof method for making yogurt at home, no machine needed!
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.
Chia Pudding with Strawberries
A super easy recipe thats so tasty (and happens to be good for you too)
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.
Remembering as a Call to Act in Solidarity
Tagan Engel’s speech given in honor of her grandparents for the Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony in New Haven, CT 2019.
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.