It’s All About Food
Since 2009, It’s All About Food, a vegan podcast, has been bringing you the best in up-to-date news regarding food, our food system and the vegan lifestyle. Hosted by Caryn Hartglass, a vegan since 1988, the program includes in-depth interviews with medical doctors, nutritionists, dietitians, cook book authors, artists, poets, athletes, environmentalists, animal rights activists, farmers, food manufacturers, lawyers, food scientists and more. Learn how we can solve many of the world’s problems today and do it deliciously, here on It’s All About Food.
Episodes
Tuesday Sep 21, 2021
Tuesday Sep 21, 2021
Desirèe Marzan is a veganic subsistence farmer working for Will Bonsall, the Director of the Scatterseed Project on his farm, Khadighar in Industry, ME.
She is a Nuyorican from Jackson Heights, Queens whose journey is to bring back self-reliance in the form of subsistence growing to New York City. Her focus is to bring nutritious food to underserved communities in densely populated cities. She believes in a life of health, clarity, and personal choices that are in the people’s best interests. Food, and herbal medicine are the first steps in shifting personal awareness inward and gaining answers to what is really meaningful in our lives.
Links mentioned in the programThe Scatterseed Project: Collecting, Preserving, and Sharing Our Horticultural Heritage
Wednesday Sep 15, 2021
Wednesday Sep 15, 2021
Vicki Hird is Head of the Sustainable Farming Campaign for Sustain: The Alliance for Better Food and Farming, and she also runs an independent consultancy. An experienced and award-winning environmental campaigner, researcher, writer and strategist working mainly in the food, farming and environmental policy arenas, Vicki has worked on government policy for many years and is the author of Perfectly Safe to Eat?: The Facts on Food. Vicki’s passion is insects. The first pets she gave her children were a family of stick insects, and she received a giraffe-necked weevil tattoo for her 50th birthday. Vicki has a masters in pest management and is a fellow of the Royal Entomological Society (FRES). Links mentioned in the program:CELEBRATING INSECTSInvertebrate WelfareLight pollution from street lamps linked to insect loss
Tuesday Sep 07, 2021
Tuesday Sep 07, 2021
Hartglass & De Mattei discuss the weather and global warming, the Jewish New Year, Labor Day, the premier of the film Eating Our Way to Extinction, NYC mayoral candidate Eric Adams, the US Open, Shishito Peppers and they share some new recipes.
Links mentioned in the program:
Wall Street Journal article on Eric Adams: Will New York Come Back? Will New Yorkers?
Premieres September 16: Eating Our Way to Extinction
Cilantro Lime Dressing
Magic Cookies
Wednesday Sep 01, 2021
Wednesday Sep 01, 2021
Hartglass & De Mattei are back from their cross country road trip. They share their thoughts on the UN Climate Change Report; global warming and animal agriculture; GMO corn being grown across the nation for animal feed, oil, sweeteners and fuel; being uplifting to those who talk about their ailments and medical procedures; and California Cuisine supporting fresh, locally grown plant foods.
LINKS MENTIONED IN THE PODCASTUN Climate Change Report, IPCC report: ‘Code red’ for human driven global heatingHandheld Catering, serving San Jose, Silicon valley and San Francisco Bay Area since 2012The BEST Buckwheat CrepesCalifornia Cuisine, Chez Panisse
Tuesday Aug 17, 2021
Tuesday Aug 17, 2021
Linnea Ryshke was born in Los Angeles, CA and received her MFA in Visual Art from Washington University in St. Louis, and her BFA in Painting from Pratt Institute. She creates paintings, drawings, artist books, and poetry that seek to restore the value of nonhuman animals as kindred beings worthy of our adoration, respect, and empathy. Alongside her art practice, she is an educator and has served as the Administrative Director for Culture Push, Inc., a non-profit arts organization in New York City. She currently resides in St. Louis, MO. You can learn more about her work at www.reembodimentproject.com.
Tuesday Jul 20, 2021
Tuesday Jul 20, 2021
Jonathan Balcombe was born in England, raised in New Zealand and Canada, and has lived in the United States since 1987. He is a biologist with a PhD in ethology, the study of animal behavior. He is the author of four popular science books on the inner lives of animals, including Pleasurable Kingdom, Second Nature, and What a Fish Knows, a New York Times best-seller. He has published over 60 scientific papers and book chapters on animal behavior and animal protection. Formerly Department Chair for Animal Studies with the Humane Society University, and Director of Animal Sentience with The Humane Society Institute for Science and Policy, Jonathan works as an independent author, and performs editing services for aspiring and established authors. He also serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Animal Sentience, and he teaches a course in animal sentience for the Viridis Graduate Institute. A popular speaker, Jonathan has lectured on six continents (the penguins eagerly anticipate his arrival in Antarctica). Jonathan currently lives in southern Ontario, where in his spare time he enjoys biking, baking, birding, Bach, and trying to understand the squirrels in his neighborhood.
Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
Caryn Hartglass and Gary De Mattei give a summary of all the important reasons to eat a whole food vegan diet and ponder on why people don’t support this lifestyle. They discuss how our thoughts can nourish or poison our emotional and physical well-being.
Links mentioned in the program:Robert GoodlandRynn BerryJim Mason, An Unnatural OrderAlmond Ricotta RecipeGarden FreshBaiaTrue Food Kitchen
Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
Hartglass & De Mattei, Good Food KarmaCaryn Hartglass and Gary De Mattei take sides discussing the motivation behind activism. They review the restaurants they visited over the Independence Day Weekend in the Bay Area and they discover more reasons to love Green Juice. Links mentioned in the program:Dharma’sGood Karma, Artisan Ales and CafeOriginal Joe’sHilary’s burger,BaiaGreen Juice Recipe
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
Hartglass & De Mattei, Here’s to Vegans Who LunchIn this program Caryn Hartglass and Gary De Mattei cover a wide range of subjects: farm animal laws; commodity animals; goats used in fire prevention; listener emails; veganic agriculture; Independence Day foods and fireworks; excuses to not go vegan; illnesses and fiber.
Thursday Jun 24, 2021
Thursday Jun 24, 2021
Hartglass & De Mattei, An Absolutely Perfect Day to Go Vegan!Caryn Hartglass and Gary De Mattei are back together this week and continue the conversation about the terms plant-based and vegan. They cover the Perfect Day man-made dairy proteins appearing in “plant-based” ice cream products; attending social events with food that isn’t vegan; updates on the REAL Buckwheat Crepe recipe; films to watch; vegan shows; the amazing Red Lentil; and yummy vegan burgers to make with REAL ingredients. Links mentioned in the program:The Animal Welfare (Sentience) BillOctopuses and lobsters have feelings – include them in sentience bill, urge MPsPerfect Day – synthetic dairyPressed Juicery Vegan Soft ServeNadaMoo! Dairy-Free Ice CreamCoconut Bliss Organic Dairy-Free Ice CreamShoe Material Icons FILMS TO WATCH:SeaspiracyThey’re Trying to Kill UsThe Need to Grow Food RECIPES with RED LENTILS:Lentil CrepesCarrot Lentil PatéBaked Red Lentil “Salmon” CakesRed Lentil Soup