It’s All About Food

It’s All About Food- Moby, Punk Rock Vegan Movie

Moby has been a vegan and vegan activist for 35 years. He grew up in and around New York City and played guitar with Connecticut and NYC hardcore band, The Vatican Commandos. He also sang with Flipper for two days, even though none of the remaining members of Flipper actually remember this. He loves making music, but his life’s work is helping to create a world wherein animals and all sentient beings simply are free to live their own lives.

It’s All About Food- Shilpa Ravella, A Silent Fire

Shilpa Ravella is a gastroenterologist and author. She treats a range of general gastrointestinal ailments and has unique experience in managing complex rare diseases, including intestinal failure and intestinal or multiple-organ transplantation. She is an expert in the field of nutrition and is particularly interested in the interactions between food, the microbiome and the immune system. A Silent Fire: The Story of Inflammation, Diet & Disease is her first book. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, New York Magazine, Slate, Discover and USA Today, among other publications, and she has appeared as an expert on ABC’s Good Morning America and in print media outlets including Forbes, Cosmopolitan, Food and Wine, Glamour and Women’s Health. Her Ted-Ed lesson, ‘How the Food You Eat Affects Your Gut,’ has garnered over five million views. Ravella earned her B.S. in Biology from MIT and an M.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. She is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. She lives in New York City and in Hilo, Hawaii, a certified “blue zone.”

It’s All About Food - Hartglass & De Mattei, Slaughterhouse on the Rise, Stay of Execution for Foie Gras

Caryn Hartglass and Gary De Mattei cover two unfortunate news items: the preliminary injunction issued on enforcing the foie gras ban in NYC; and the 26-story pig skyscraper in China. They will share a bit of philosophy on life and death along with some of their favorite holiday recipes. 
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Hartglass & De Mattei, Food and Farmland

With Thanksgiving coming up this week, Caryn Hartglass & Gary De Mattei express gratitude for the farmers and all the people involved with bringing food to our tables. They cover concerns about farmland ownership and control. They discuss GMOs; the UN Climate Summit; Climate Activists; Banana Peel Bacon. Caryn shares a story about being interviewed on News 12 about 25 years ago on Thanksgiving Day.
Below are links mentioned during the program.
COP27 Day 12: A Breakthrough Decision For The Most VulnerableCOP27 Reaches Breakthrough Agreement on New “Loss and Damage” Fund for Vulnerable CountriesClimate conference serves up lab-grown meat — and a clash over foodClimate Protesters Throw Soup Over van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’

It’s All About Food- Hartglass & De Mattei, Cellulose not Cellular Meat!

In this podcast, Hartglass & De Mattei discuss The 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Cellular Meat, The International Vegan Film Festival, and Delicious Recipe Ideas for Thanksgiving and the Holiday Season. Links mentioned in the podcast:International Vegan Film FestivalClean Meat HoaxThe 25-Day Magical European TourThe 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
 

It’s All About Food- Marion Nestle, Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics

Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, at New York University, in the department she chaired from 1988-2003 and from which she retired in September 2017. She is also Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell. She holds honorary degrees from Transylvania University in Kentucky and the Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York.
She earned a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition from the University of California, Berkeley. Previous faculty positions were at Brandeis University and the UCSF School of Medicine. From 1986-88, she was senior nutrition policy advisor in the Department of Health and Human Services and editor of the 1988 Surgeon General’s Report on Nutrition and Health. Her research and writing examine scientific and socioeconomic influences on food choice and its consequences, emphasizing the role of food industry marketing
From 2008 to 2013, she wrote a monthly Food Matters column for the San Francisco Chronicle food section, and she blogs at www.foodpolitics.com. Her Twitter account, @marionnestle, has been named among the top 10 in health and science by Time Magazine, Science Magazine, and The Guardian, and has nearly 145,000 followers. Nestle has received many awards and honors such as the John Dewey Award for Distinguished Public Service from Bard College in 2010. In 2011, the University of California School of Public Health at Berkeley named her as Public Health Hero. Also in 2011, Michael Pollan ranked her as the #2 most powerful foodie in America (after Michelle Obama), and Mark Bittman ranked her #1 in his list of foodies to be thankful for.

It’s All About Food -Debbie Adler, The Mediterranean Plate

Debbie Adler is a plant-based chef and author of the critically acclaimed, award-winning cookbooks Sweet, Savory & Free and Sweet Debbie’s Organic Treats. Television appearances include NBC’S Nightly News, ABC-7’s Eyewitness News, CBS’s Los Angeles News, KTLA’s Health Smart, WISH-TV’s Indy Style, the nationally syndicated WGN’s Lunchbreak, and Good Day Austin. Her recipes have been featured in the Los Angeles Times, NPR’s Here and Now, and the national magazines Allergic Living, Simply Gluten-Free, Pilates Style, Naked Food, Delight Gluten-free, Simply Gluten-free, Where Women Cook, and Low Sugar Living. She is a contributor to the popular websites for Self, Glamour, The Kitchn, Cosmopolitan, One Green Planet, and Nutrition Studies by Dr. T. Colin Campbell. Debbie founded LA’s first sugar-free/vegan/gluten-free/ allergy-free bakery Sweet Debbie’s Organic Cupcakes and is the creator of the popular plant-based programs Plant Powerful Life GPS, Quintessential Health 360°, and The Complete Plant Powerful Weight Loss System.

It’s All About Food - Jenny Linford, Kew Gardens Cookbook

Jenny Linford is a food writer and author of 15 books, ranging from cookery to ingredient guides. She has written for The Guardian, The Times, Time Out and the British Library’s Food Stories website. Born in London, her interest in food stems from living as a child in Singapore and Italy, places where good food is important to the community, both taken for granted and relished as a great pleasure. 

It’s All About Food- Edward F. Fischer, Making Better Coffee

Edward F. Fischer, Making Better CoffeeEdward F. Fischer is Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University, where he also directs the Institute for Coffee Studies. He has authored and edited several books, most recently The Good Life: Aspiration, Dignity, and the Anthropology of Wellbeing.

It’s All About Food - Hartglass & De Mattei, Epilogue: Shoo Fly Pie

Hear about what happened when Caryn made Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy for the first time and brought it to her mom’s 89th birthday party. Caryn and Gary continue the ongoing conversation around the climate catastrophe, droughts, heat waves and how to stay upbeat despite the bad news.