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For generations, farmers in western North Carolina have relied on tobacco as a core crop, their lifeblood. It was more than just income, though: to...
Bought by KVLU
- Added: Nov 17, 2016
- Length: 26:01
- Purchases: 1
Corn is a ubiquitous part of Southern food—from bread to whiskey. But how did it get to be that way? In this episode of Gravy, we go on a hunt for ...
Bought by KVLU and West Virginia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Nov 03, 2016
- Length: 25:21
- Purchases: 2
In 1986, Ernest Matthew Mickler of Palm Valley, Florida, published White Trash Cooking. It was a loving ode to his people—rural, white, working-cla...
Bought by KVLU
- Added: Oct 11, 2016
- Length: 27:31
- Purchases: 1
On the Eastern Coast of Nicaragua, palm plantations are taking over land traditionally used for growing coconuts. How are Creole people resisting ...
- Added: Sep 22, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Working on a dairy--especially a small dairy--is one of the most dangerous jobs in the country, more dangerous even than construction. Over the pas...
- Added: Sep 15, 2016
- Length: 20:18
Imagine this: deep in the Louisiana wetlands, a wooden platform the size of three football fields, covered in shrimp, drying in the sun… which are ...
Bought by KVLU
- Added: Sep 08, 2016
- Length: 25:44
- Purchases: 1
You’ve heard of explorers discovering new lands, but new… fruits? In this episode of Gravy, a couple of young fruit explorers scour the South on a ...
Bought by KVLU, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and KSFR
- Added: Aug 15, 2016
- Length: 26:09
- Purchases: 3
If you’ve never heard of a fish camp, don’t let the name fool you. It’s not a place where you fish or camp. Instead, the term designates a place wh...
- Added: Jul 07, 2016
- Length: 22:44
- Purchases: 2
We sit in on a taste test with local cheese makers and connoisseurs to learn about blue cheeses and sample delicious pairings. Includes Mackenzie L...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Jun 29, 2016
- Length: 11:12
- Purchases: 1
Imagine: crabs, fish, eels—a whole team of sea creatures—rushing towards the shore, and then sitting there, as if waiting to be caught. This isn’t ...
- Added: Jun 16, 2016
- Length: 22:01
- Purchases: 2
How can Native Americans seek better health and wellness on reservations? Anton Treuer talks about decolonizing food in this next installment of A...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jun 15, 2016
- Length: 08:31
- Purchases: 1
The Red Lake Local Food Initiative has broken the ground on some new community gardens. They’re hoping to encourage a healthy lifestyle through tra...
- Added: Jun 15, 2016
- Length: 09:28
Ari Solomon, the genius behind the viral video "Sh*t Vegans Say" and director of communications for Mercy for Animals, on how anyone can be a vegan...
- Added: Jun 13, 2016
- Length: 28:29
The pride of Nashville: honky tonks and… Halal lamb? The area of the city known as Little Kurdistan contains a whole culinary universe that many pe...
- Added: Jun 02, 2016
- Length: 28:21
- Purchases: 2
Local breweries are on the rise and with that new ways to serve and complement beer. In this next installment of Area Voices, producer Tammy Bobrow...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: May 25, 2016
- Length: 14:37
- Purchases: 1
The first of three VegFund-sponsored activist spotlight episodes: Katie Cantrell, founder and executive director of the Factory Farming Awareness C...
- Added: May 23, 2016
- Length: 28:30
Some refugees in Chapel Hill are finding a way to reconnect with their native farming tradition.
- Added: May 19, 2016
- Length: 04:02
Corporate disruptor Liz Dee on impact investing and the cultural shift toward plant-based and cultured alternatives to animal products. Dee is co-o...
- Added: May 16, 2016
- Length: 28:30
When Alexis Diao’s father arrived in Tallahassee, Florida, he couldn’t even find coconut milk—let alone many other ingredients to make the Filipino...
- Added: May 05, 2016
- Length: 26:13
- Purchases: 3
Every week, Cracker Barrel provides 4 million Americans with a studied version of down-home Southern food and hospitality. The dumplins and the chi...
- Added: Apr 21, 2016
- Length: 26:03
- Purchases: 2
When it comes to the bourbon Pappy Van Winkle, it doesn’t matter who you are or how much money you have — you can’t get it unless you’re exceptiona...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 12, 2016
- Length: 23:53
- Purchases: 1
Producer Milt Lee talks with Kent Montgomery about his families 5th generation maple syrup operation.
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Apr 11, 2016
- Length: 08:05
- Purchases: 1
When it comes to a certain kind of bourbon, it doesn’t matter who you are or how much money you have—you can’t get it unless you’re exceptionally l...
- Added: Apr 07, 2016
- Length: 26:50
- Purchases: 2
Milan Ross lost over 200 pounds when he started a plant-based diet. In his new book The Change, he shares how...and how you can make big changes, t...
- Added: Apr 05, 2016
- Length: 28:30
Prolific vegan cookbook author Terry Hope Romero talks about her latest book - Protein Ninja - and how vegan cooking and taste evolves over the yea...
- Added: Mar 28, 2016
- Length: 28:30
