It’s All About Food

It's All About Food - Matt & Phil Letten (The Vegan Bros), and Michael Harren - 06.05.18

Part I: Matt and Phil Letten (The Vegan Bros), Vodka is VeganThe Vegan Bros, Matt Letten and Phil Letten, are brothers (and bros) who have transformed their lives by adopting a vegan lifestyle. Popular bloggers, health and fitness consultants, and animal-rights advocates, they’ve been featured in mainstream media outlets such as VICE, Business Insider, Fast Company, CW, and the Guardian. And they’re just getting started.    Part II: Michael Harren, The Animal ShowBrooklyn-based composer and performer Michael Harren combines elements of classical composition with experimental electronics and storytelling to create hypnotic and boldly intimate work that walks the line between Laurie Anderson, Peter Gabriel and Dead Can Dance. He is artist-in-residence at Tamerlaine Farm Animal Sanctuary where he created the solo multi-media theater piece The Animal Show, which premiered in New York City in 2016 and continues to be performed in venues throughout the United States. In his first solo show, Tentative Armor, he combined piano, synthesizers, various electronics, and live musicians with his unique storytelling, resulting in a deeply moving, highly entertaining performance. Through his resonant, powerful, very personal stories, Harren envelops the audience in a funny, poignant, highly intimate tour of his own self-discovery through spirituality, sexuality, and grief. Music, text and photos from the show were released in an album and book of the same name. Michael Harren has toured as pianist with Sandra Bernhard, is the musical director for Cabaret for a Cause, and has performed at Dixon Place, (le) poisson rouge, Joe’s Pub, Judson Memorial Church, Manhattan Theater Source, The Duplex, Don’t Tell Mama, The Laurie Beechman Theater as well as numerous venues around the country. Michael is a Moogfest artist who presented No Permission Needed: Create with Senator Jaiz at Moogfest 2017.

It's All About Food - Carol Adams, Burger and Marty Krutolow - 05.30.18

Carol Adams, BurgerCarol J. Adams is the author of numerous books, including The Sexual Politics of Meat, Neither Man nor Beast: Feminism and the Defense of Animals and The Pornography of Meat. She is the co-editor of several pathbreaking anthologies, including most recently Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth (with Lori Gruen). Her work is the subject of two recent anthologies, Defiant Daughters: 21 Women of Art, Activism, Animals, and The Sexual Politics of Meat and The Art of the Animal: 14 Women Artists Explore The Sexual Politics of Meat, in which a new generation of feminists, artists, and activists respond to Adams’ groundbreaking work.
Marty Krutolow, Marty’s V BurgerFor more than three decades, Marty Krutolow was a commercial and charter pilot. Recently he founded Marty’s V Burger in Manhattan, boasting a unique vegan patty made with seitan, rice, and beans.

It's All About Food - 05.22.18

Stephane Groleau and Meghan Kelly, Veganic Agriculture
This is a rebroadcast from a show aired in 2009.
Veganics! Stephane Groleau and Meghan Kelly founded the Veganic Agriculture Network in 2008 to promote farming and gardening that is free from chemicals and animal by-products. Their website www.goveganic.net features profiles of veganic farms in North America, and introduces people to the main concepts of farming and gardening in a way that is environmentally sustainable and compatible with a vegan ethic. In 2004, Stephane visited veganic farms in Europe for 9 months, and began the website www.vegeculture.net to promote veganic agriculture in the French language. He has a diploma in Organic Agriculture from the Cegep de Victoriaville and is a frequent writer for the magazines BioBulle and Growing Green International. Stephane and Meghan both garden veganically in the village of St-Casimir, Quebec.

It's All About Food - Barry Wray, GM Mosquitoes - 05.16.18

Part I: Barry Wray, GM MosquitoesBarry Wray helped form the Florida Keys Environmental Coalition in 2010 in response to threats for the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill to the ecosystems and livelihood of the FL Keys. His leadership at that anxious and critical point in time was a rallying point for many within the community and the efforts put forth resulted in a number of resiliency accomplishments including over 400 people within the Keys community becoming HAZWOPER qualified to assist with any response to oil intrusion, inclusion into a variety of EOC operation plans to provide access to qualified local volunteer base and an energized network of local volunteers who have remained active and available within the community. Barry, together with a team of Keys wide activists, who range from globally recognized PhD and Medical Doctors to Moms and Realtors, has helped lead the defense of the Keys from the premature release of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes until they are proven safe, championed changes to aerial chemical dispersal to prevent contamination to potable water system and pioneered a novel engineered approach to improving near shore water quality in the Keys using indigenous filter feeder species in engineered habitats. For over 30 years Barry Wray has considered the Keys as part of his life and settled permanently in Islamorada 20 years ago. Barry has a Master’s of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts along with years of extensive project management and global engineering achievements for companies like GE and Ericsson. Currently, Mr. Wray serves and the Chief Technologist for Solarbeam International, specializing in renewable energy powered perimeter intrusion detection security systems. Barry also has a long history of public service including student government president, helping found the largest student association in the history of Massachusetts (the State Student Association of Massachusetts) and served on its board and as its Chair, and 9 years of service including Chairmanship of the Workforce and Affordable Housing subcommittee and 5+ years on the Water Quality Subcommittee for the Village of Islamorada,

It's All About Food - Robert Grillo, Canned Pheasant Hunting - 05.08.18

Part 1: Caryn Hartglass, Costa Rica Travel, Food MythsCaryn discusses her experience with food while traveling all around Costa Rica. She gives a summary of the most popular questions of people interested in healthy diets, as asked in the recent Food Revolution Summit.     
Part 2. Robert Grillo, Canned Pheasant HuntingRobert Grillo is President and Director of Free From Harm. He has 20 years of experience in the field of branding, design and communications. He is Free from Harm’s founder and director since 2009. He also acts as editor of the website and contributes regular articles.
Robert Grillo is the director of Free from Harm which he founded in 2009 to advocate on behalf of farmed animals. As an activist, author and speaker, Grillo focuses awareness on the non human animal’s experience and point of view, drawing on insights from sociology, psychology, popular culture, ethics and social justice to bridge the gap between humans and other animals. As a marketing communications professional for over 20 years, Grillo has worked on big food industry brands where he acquired a behind-the-scenes perspective on food branding and marketing. His is the author of Farm to Fable: The Fictions of Our Animal Consuming Culture, which reveals how popular culture conditions us to consume animal products and how a better understanding of these fictions can empower us to help them, ourselves and the planet The book is the basis of his keynote presentation of the same name.
Here is Robert’s article on canned pheasant hunting published on Alternet.

It's All About Food - Ian Theasby and Henry Firth, BOSH! - 05.02.18

Ian Theasby and Henry Firth, BOSH!: Simple Recipes • Amazing Food • All PlantsIan Theasby and Henry Firth met in school at the age of eleven and live and work together at their BOSH! studio in East London. In June 2016 they posted their first ever recipe online. A year later, and they are the founders of the largest plant-based video channel on Facebook, reaching fifty million people a month. Everything they cook is plant based.

It's All About Food - Caryn Hartglass, Veggie Pride Parade, Food Revolution Summit 2018 - 04.10.18

 Listen: Tuesday, April 10, 2018, 4pm ET by going to PRN, The Progressive Radio Network. 
Call in to the show with comments and questions: 1-888-874-4888.Listen by phone to hear the live broadcast at 1-401-347-0456.Or call the personal archive number to hear the most recent five episodes of It’s All About Food: 1-701-719-0885.       Caryn talks about this past weekend’s 11th Annual Veggie Parade and the upcoming Food Revolution Summit. She goes into detail about the recipes she and her partner Gary De Mattei created for the summit. She also talks about the difficulty of changing one’s diet and incorporating new foods, needing to feel safe.

It's All About Food - Caryn Hartglass, MSG, Self-Love/Self-Loathing, Holiday Recipes and Natural Candy - 04.03.18

Call in to the show with comments and questions: 1-888-874-4888.Listen by phone to hear the live broadcast at 1-401-347-0456.Or call the personal archive number to hear the most recent five episodes of It’s All About Food: 1-701-719-0885.
Caryn shares her recent reaction to MSG in her soup at a restaurant. She discusses self-love and self-loathing and how it affects our relationship with food. She offers up her favorite Passover and Easter recipes and some brands of natural candies, free of artificial colors and preservatives; GMO-free, gluten-free and vegan.

It's All About Food - Nil Zacharias, Eat for the Planet - 03.20.18

GUEST: Nil Zacharias, Eat for the PlanetNil Zacharias is the cofounder and editor in chief of One Green Planet, which is one of the largest and fastest-growing independent digital media platforms in the food sustainability and green space. He lives in New York City.

It's All About Food - Caryn Hartglass, Patience, Digestive Issues - 03.14.18

Caryn Hartglass, Patience and Digestive IssuesIn this episode Caryn talks about the importance of having patience when working to improve one’s diet, especially when dealing with digestive issues. She also reviews the recent Women Chefs Rule: The Vegan Edition at the James Beard House in NYC.