It’s All About Food

It‘s All About Food - Hartglass & De Mattei: Cross Country Road Trip Report

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

It's All About Food - Linnea Ryshke, Kindling

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.
 

It's All About Food - Jonathan Balcombe, SUPER FLY, The Unexpected Lives of the World’s Most Successful Insects

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.

It's All About Food - Hartglass & De Mattei, REAL Food for Thought

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

It's All About Food - Hartglass & De Mattei, Good Food Karma

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

It's All About Food - Hartglass & De Mattei, Here’s to Vegans Who Lunch

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.

It's All About Food - Hartglass & De Mattei, An Absolutely Perfect Day to Go Vegan!

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

It's All About Food - Michele Simon, What’s Happened to the Plant-Based Food Movement?

Michele Simon, What’s Happened to the Plant-Based Food Movement?
Michele Simon is a public health attorney, food policy expert, author, and thought leader in the plant-based foods industry. In 2016, she founded the Plant Based Foods Association (PBFA), the nation’s only membership association promoting the interests of plant-based food companies. For five years as PBFA’s executive director, Simon grew the association to over 300 members, leading a team of policy and retail experts. Through her strategic efforts, PBFA fought off the powerful meat and dairy lobbies, and forged new marketplace opportunities for the plant-based foods industry.
Simon has written extensively on the politics of food and alcohol. Her first book, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back, was published by Nation Books in 2006. NYU Professor Marion Nestle (who calls the book “brilliant”) made it required reading for her nutrition students. In 2010, she founded her own consulting firm, Eat Drink Politics, and has written countless articles and reports while becoming a sought-after media pundit.
Simon also offers legal advice on federal regulatory compliance for labeling and marketing, among other legal and policy services. She is admitted to practice law in California, working “of counsel” to Handel Food Law. Simon has a master’s degree in public health from Yale University and received her law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.

It's All About Food - Dilip Barman, So Many Cooks in the Kitchen

Dilip Barman, So Many Cooks in the Kitchen
Dilip Barman has been involved with plant‐based lifestyle for decades. He is President of the Triangle Vegetarian Society in North Carolina where he hosts the country’s largest vegetarian (all vegan) Thanksgiving. He is a Food for Life instructor (and has a promotional video); Food for Life is a nutrition education program of the Physicians Committee, a non‐profit organization with a goal of improving lives through evidence‐based research in food and nutrition. Dilip is Executive Producer of the film Code Blue that shows how lifestyle choices can profoundly affect health; the film had its international release on May 26, 2020.
Dilip is on advisory boards of the Plant‐Based Network, Rochester Lifestyle Medicine Institute, and Piedmont Farm Animal Refuge; a “Vegan Information Point” and Speaker Bureau member of the American Vegan Society; North American representative of the International Vegetarian Union; and an Affiliate of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. He has given cooking demonstrations and talks in a number of countries and states (see, for example, a May 2021 magazine article (forthcoming), a January 2021 chef interview, an October 2018 panel discussion, a June 2017 interview about children and health, a February 2016 podcast interview, an October 2011 World Vegetarian Festival cooking presentation, and March 2011 podcast). His recipes have appeared in a variety of local and international news programs, books, magazines, newspapers, and online, such as a video and subsequent published recipe of his signature dish jerk seitan. Dilip teaches at a number of local schools, including as Nutrition Education Director of an elementary and middle school where he has created a Healthy Snack Program to provide nutrition education and, several times a week, healthy plant‐based food for children.
In May 2020 Dilip helped to found a monthly internet show So Many Cooks in the Kitchen where a dozen or more whole food plant‐based Food for Life instructors go kitchen‐to‐kitchen sharing nutrition and food preparation tips. The show, as well as a spinoff that began in August 2020, So Many Kids in the Kitchen, has been picked up by the Plant-Based Network.
Dilip writes on plant‐based eating and lifestyle for a local online periodical, The Local Reporter and for the Plant‐Based Network’s member magazine, and is a features writer for a regional magazine, Saathee, serving the South Asian community of the Southeast (US). Dilip is proud never to have repeated a meal for his wife in over sixteen years of knowing her (since mid‐2004); he blogs about his plant‐based creations. He tweets (about whole food plant‐based eating and nutrition, as well as math, which he also teaches, and other topics) @dbarman.

It's All About Food - Jim Mason, An Unnatural Order, The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature

Jim Mason, An Unnatural Order, The Roots of Our Destruction of NatureJim Mason was trained as a lawyer. He was one of the founders and editor of the Animals Agenda magazine, and co-author (with Peter Singer) of Animals Factories (1090) and he Ethics of What We Eat (2006). He has written articles for The New York Times, New Scientist, Newsday, Orion, and Audubon magazine, and has contributed to several Jim Mason was trained as a lawyer. He was one of the founders and editor of the Animals Agenda magazine, and co-author (with Peter Singer) of Animals Factories (1090) and The Ethics of What We Eat (2006). He has written articles for The New York Times, New Scientist, Newsday, Orion, and Audubon magazine, and has contributed to several anthologies, including In Defense of Animals (2005). He lives in Virginia. His website is www.jimmason.website.