It’s All About Food

It's All About Food - Politics, Protests, and Pastries

Caryn talks about the upcoming No Kings protests and protests in history like the Haymarket Affair, while preparing to perform the role of anarchist, activist Emma Goldman in a contemporary opera. She shares recipes for some favorite comfort foods for cool autumn weather. Halloween, UNICEF, the Farm Bill, and Bird Flu are other topics she discusses.

It's All About Food - Seasoned Wisdom, Herbs, Spices and Seeds?

Caryn Hartglass, Seasoned Wisdom – Herbs, Spices and SeedsCaryn goes into detail about all the herbs, spices and seeds used in her daily food preparation.

It’s All About Food - Teresa Mares, Will Work For Food

Teresa Mares is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Vermont and Affiliated Faculty in Food Systems. Her research and teaching examines food labor, food movements, and immigration from Latin America to the US.
Dr. Mares has years of experience collaborating with activists in food and labor justice movements. Her first book Life on the Other Border: Farmworkers and Food Justice in Vermont was published by University of California Press (2019). She has also published widely in journals like Agriculture and Human Values, Food and Foodways, and the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. She earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology with a Graduate Certificate in Women Studies from the University of Washington. She lives in Charlotte, Vermont with her partner, daughter, and two pups.

It’s All About Food - Hartglass & De Mattei, Apples and Politics

In this episode Caryn and Gary discuss RFK Jr.’s recent article in the Wall Street Journal and continue the topic of what the current White House has been doing that affects health and nutrition.
Links mentioned in the podcast: An Apple a Day Is a Good Prescriptionhttps://www.wsj.com/opinion/an-apple-a-day-is-a-good-prescription-kennedy-hhs-diet-health-73227a67 The 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee reporthttps://www.dietaryguidelines.gov/2025-advisory-committee-report While Everyone Was Arguing Over Food Dyes, Kennedy Sidelined Beanshttps://vegnews.com/rfk-dietary-guidelines-beans Is Beef Tallow Healthy? Nutrition Experts Explainhttps://www.prevention.com/food-nutrition/a62939998/is-beef-tallow-healthy/ What Are Seed Oils?https://foodrevolution.org/blog/what-are-seed-oils/ Tai Zhan Bakeryhttps://www.taizhanbake.com/ Happy Zoe Vegan Bakeryhttps://www.happyzoeveganbakery.com/
 FIND PLANT-BASED MEDICAL PRACTITIONERSPlant-based doctors and other providers – https://plantrician.org/Plant-based registered dietitians – https://www.eatright.org/find-an-expertNaturopathic physicians – https://www.naturopathic.org/AF_MemberDirectory.aspLifestyle medicine practitioners – https://www.lifestylemedpros.org/home/

It’s All About Food - Hartglass & De Mattei, Meat Madness

Hartglass & De Mattei, Meat MadnessCaryn Hartglass teams up again with Gary De Mattei to talk about Eleven Madison Park added meat back on their menu; Beyond Meat rumors; Alpha-Gal, mammalian meat allergy; and oxalates in Spinach. Plus they discuss new recipes they’ve been working on.
Links mentioned in the podcast:
Healthy World Burger
Eleven Madison, Meat Is Back at Eleven Madison Park, After 4 Vegan Years
Why Is Martha’s Vineyard Going Vegan? It’s All About Tick Bites.
Beyond Meat

It’s All About Food - Sarah Speare, Tootie’s Tempeh

Sarah Speare, Tootie’s TempehSarah Speare is the CEO and CoFounder of Tootie’s Tempeh, a worker-owned consumer foods cooperative based in Biddeford, Maine. Prior to Tootie’s she cofounded a pet treat company that had distribution in 10,000 stores and was sold to a large competitor. She has also been the executive director of several social impact non-profits and served on the boards of arts and civic organizations in Maine and MA. She has a background in graphic design and is a graduate of Tufts University and the Museum School.
Watch a short TV segment about Tootie’s Tempeh from WMTW’s Made in Maine.
REAL Recipes with Tempeh
Choucroute Garnie
Snowy Joes
Tasty Tempeh Taco Tuesday “Meat”
Soybeans are a healthy food. If you have any concerns about soy, watch this:
https://vimeo.com/118732085?fl=pl&fe=vl

It’s All About Food - Ciara Sidell, Randall’s Island Park Alliance Urban Farm

Part I: Caryn Hartglass, Long Term Vegan with High Cholesterol.Caryn gives a 1-year update on her journey to lower her cholesterol. As a long time vegan, this is challenging. She has been doing an SOS-free (salt, oil, sugar free) diet for one year.
Part II: Ciara Sidell, Randall’s Island Park Alliance Urban Farm
Ciara Sidell is the Urban Farm Manager at Randall’s Island Park Alliance in NYC.
The Randall’s Island Park Alliance (RIPA) is the proud steward of the beautiful Randall’s Island Park, which is uniquely situation between three boroughs – Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens. For over 30 years, RIPA has worked in partnership with the City and the Parks Department to restore, maintain, sustain, develop, manage and program Randall’s Island Park as a place for all New Yorkers to enjoy. Since its inception in 2006 the Urban Farm has grown in size and scope, featuring over 100 raised beds, two greenhouses, four rice paddies and a small fruit orchard.
With education at the forefront of its design, the Urban Farm embodies the core belief that plants and children can grow side by side. With over 200 varieties of fruits and vegetables from around the world, the Urban Farm allows visitors to deepen their understanding of where food comes from. Strolling through the farm, you’ll discover fruits and vegetables you’ve never seen in grocery stores and crops that are culturally relevant to our nearby communities. Through free hands-on classes and public events focused on sustainability, cooking, planting, and composting, farm visitors of all ages can explore locally-grown food in an urban environment.
School groups can visit through our Edible Education Program, and we invite the public to explore during weekend open hours and many program offerings. The Urban Farm is located at the island’s southern end, adjacent to the park’s playground, a picnic area, playing fields, and a public restroom.
The Randall’s Island Park Alliance is proud to program and maintain the Urban Farm and greatly appreciates donations to help continue to make these events possible  Links mentioned in the podcast:
Keene Garlic
Lipid-lowering activity of artichoke extracts: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Ron Weiss, MD, Ethos Primary Care and Ethos Farm
Joel K. Kahn, MD, Lipoprotein(a), The Heart’s Quiet Killer: A Diet & Lifestyle Guide

It’s All About Food - Gail Eisnitz, Out of Sight, An Undercover Investigator’s Fight for Animal Rights and Her Own Survival

Gail A. Eisnitz, winner of the Albert Schweitzer Medal for outstanding achievement in animal welfare, is the chief investigator for the Humane Farming Association. Her work has resulted in exposés by ABC’s Good Morning America, PrimeTime Live, and Dateline NBC, and her interviews have been heard on more than 1,600 radio stations. Her work has been featured in such newspapers as the New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle​, Miami Herald, Detroit Free Press, Texas Monthly, Denver Business Journal, Los Angeles Times, and US News & World Report. Gail’s first book, Slaughterhouse, The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry was published in 1997. More at https://www.gaileisnitz.com/.
  Things you can do!
Oppose the so-called Fair Access to Agriculture Disaster Programs Act HR 2156/S 984
Oppose the “Food Security and Farm Protection Act,” S. 1326
The Save America’s Forgotten Equines (SAFE) Act – H.R. 1661 and S. 775
Prevent All Soring Tactics (PAST) Act – H.R. 1684 Soring—intentionally injuring the feet of Tennessee Walking horses to produce an exaggerated gait—has been outlawed since passage of the Horse Protection Act of 1970. Yet some abusive trainers still subject horses to this inhumane practice through the use of blistering agents—mustard oil, diesel fuel, and kerosene—as well as through mechanical means—the use of foreign objects inside shoes, and the use of heavy chains that irritate chemically treated tissue. Soring causes excruciating pain to horses when their feet touch the ground, causing them to lift their feet higher than normal. The Prevent All Soring Tactics (PAST) Act would strengthen existing law by ending industry self-policing, banning certain devices, and generating stiffer penalties for trainers who sore their horses.
Visual Snow
 

It’s All About Food - Delcianna J. Winders, Animal Law and Policy

Delcianna J. Winders is an associate professor of law and Director of the Animal Law and Policy Institute at Vermont Law and Graduate School. Professor Winders previously taught at Lewis & Clark Law School, where she directed the world’s first law school clinic dedicated to farmed animal advocacy. She served as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at the PETA Foundation, was the first Academic Fellow of the Harvard Animal Law & Policy Program, and was a visiting scholar at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. Her primary interests are in animal law and administrative law. She has also taught animal law at Tulane University School of Law and Loyola University New Orleans College of Law.
Her work has appeared in the Denver Law Review, Florida State Law Review, Ohio State Law Journal, NYU Law Review, and the Animal Law Review. Winders has also published extensively in the popular press, including The Hill, National Geographic, Newsweek, New York Daily News, Salon, U.S.A. Today, and numerous other outlets.
Winders received her BA in Legal Studies with highest honors from the University California at Santa Cruz, where she was named a Regents’ Scholar and received the Dean’s Award for outstanding achievement in Social Sciences, and her JD from NYU School of Law, where she was awarded the Vanderbilt Medal for outstanding contributions to the law school, named as a Robert McKay Scholar, and served as the Senior Notes Editor of the NYU Law Review. Following law school, Winders clerked for the Hon. Martha Craig Daughtrey on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and practiced animal law in a variety of settings.  Links mentioned in the podcast:
For information about the Animal Law and Policy Institute at Vermont Law and Graduate School, including degree programs and classes,(including online classes and short summer courses, which are open to auditors quite affordably): vermontlaw.edu/animallaw
Winders’ chapter Farmed Animal Welfare (United States), which examines recent and emergent developments around legal oversight of on-farm welfare, confinement bans, slaughter regulation (and deregulation), humanewashing, and welfare on certified organic farms and concludes with a call for establishment of an animal protection agency, is available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5342182. The chapter is in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook on Global Animal Law, which will be available in full online for free once published next year.
Winders’ encyclopedia entry, Legal Standing – Access to Court in the US, is in the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Animal Law, which is forthcoming this month at https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/elgar-concise-encyclopedia-of-animal-law-9781803923666.html. Listeners can use the code ANML35 for a 35% discount.
Winders’ other animal law scholarship is available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2433383.
  Have you Will Potter‘s book yet called LITTLE RED BARNS, Hiding the Truth, from Farm to FableShare? Get it now!

It’s All About Food - Jimmy Prude, Jimmy’s Vegan Cookies

Jimmy Prude is the founder of Jimmy’s Vegan Cookies. His mission is to change how people enjoy sweets by making them healthier and to give back through community-focused initiatives.
Jimmy began his journey as a nutritionist, helping residents incorporate small amounts of plant-based foods into their daily meals. Through extensive online research, they also dove into food nutrition, labeling, and the often obscure, unpronounceable ingredients found in everyday products. Inspired by what he learned, Jimmy launched Jimmy’s Vegan Cookies at the 79th Street Renaissance Festival in Chicago’s Auburn Gresham neighborhood. He brought 95 units of his signature Loaded Vegan Cookies, and sold out in under five hours.
Jimmy’s business has since partnered with FOODWORKS, a proven on-site dining platform that connects communities through food. FOODWORKS highlights local, authentic, and ethnically diverse restaurants within client spaces, helping foster inclusion and cultural appreciation through every bite.