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Do We Really Need Dietary Supplements?
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Do we need supplements to our diet? Does a normal balanced diet of food supply us with the nutrition we need?

  • Added: Dec 07, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
Good Seed Bad Seed
From: KRZA
Caption: seeds of sun, Credit: sarah parker
A radio series put together by 7th and 8th graders at Roots and Wings Community School. In the series we will explore food production and what it ...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
Summer Nonfiction: Food Critic Jason Sheehan Discusses Memoir "Cooking Dirty"
From: Grace Hood
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Grace Hood talks with James Beard award-winning food critic Jason Sheehan. His new book is called "Cooking Dirty: A story of Life, Sex, Love and De...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2009
  • Length: 03:38
A Fresh Catch
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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In recent decades, it’s gotten harder and harder for small fishermen and women to earn a living from the sea.

  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 06:35
The Body Secrets Project
From: Ross Chambless
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An anonymous 'Body Secrets' project reveals deep insecurities about a community.

Bought by Vocalo.org, Vocalo.org, KUT, and WRNC-LP


  • Added: May 20, 2009
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 4
The Dumpstering Life
From: Lisa Song
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Meet Charlotte, bioengineer by day, avid dumpster diver by night.

Bought by WILL, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: May 19, 2009
  • Length: 04:28
  • Purchases: 3
The Birth of the Frito
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Hidden Kitchens
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The secret saga of a Texas corn chip, and C.E. Doolin, the can-do kitchen visionary behind it. The Kitchen Sisters travel to Dallas and discover an...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), The Story and more


  • Added: Mar 20, 2009
  • Length: 07:19
  • Purchases: 11
Weenie Royale; The Impact of the Internment on Japanese Cooking in America
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Hidden Kitchens
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After Pearl Harbor, about 120,000 Japanese Americans were uprooted and forced to live for years in remote federal camps around the country. The uph...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZYX, WORT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KWMR and more


  • Added: Mar 20, 2009
  • Length: 09:18
  • Purchases: 23
Sugar in the Milk: A Parsi Kitchen Story
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Hidden Kitchens
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Niloufer Ichaporia King lives in a house with 3 kitchen. She goes to 6 farmer's markets a week. She is an anthropologist, a kitchen botanist, a one...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Boise State Public Radio, KWMR, WABE, KUOW and more


  • Added: Mar 19, 2009
  • Length: 08:56
  • Purchases: 7
Broncos & Boudin: The Angola Prison Rodeo
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Hidden Kitchens
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Hidden Kitchens travels to the Louisiana State Penitentiary and the world of unexpected, below-the-radar, down-home convict cooking at the Angola P...

Bought by WABE, The Story, PRX Remix, Iowa Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 19, 2009
  • Length: 07:26
  • Purchases: 5
The Birth of Rice-A-Roni
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Hidden Kitchens
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The worlds of a young Canadian immigrant, an Italian pasta-making family, and a 70-year-old Armenian woman converge in this story of the creation o...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Boise State Public Radio, KWMR, WABE, KALW and more


  • Added: Mar 19, 2009
  • Length: 07:43
  • Purchases: 8
Black Chefs, White House
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Hidden Kitchens
Caption: George Washington's Chef, Hercules
Hidden Kitchens explores the food of the founding fathers through the stories of Hercules and James Hemings, enslaved chefs of George Washington an...

Bought by KWMR, KZYX, Prairie Public, Marfa Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2009
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 12
Kim Fellner on her book- Wrestling with Starbucks: Conscience, Capital, Cappuccino
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
Caption: Kim Fellner, Credit: Rutgers Press
A Labor Activist finds surprises at America's most visible coffee source.

Bought by WRPI


  • Added: Jan 28, 2009
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
On the Farm
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
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Three Views of Farmers

  • Added: Nov 12, 2008
  • Length: 03:25
Self and Sociey
From: Sudan Radio Project
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Analysis and exploration of current issues surrounding the conflict in Darfur.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
It's Harder Than You Think
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Anna had always been interested in farming. So when she met Carolyn Snell at a farmers market in Portland, Anna decided to find out, once and for a...

Bought by WXLV-FM, WXLV-FM, and KOOP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2007
  • Length: 02:09
  • Purchases: 3
CamForum - In Praise Of Slowness
From: Cambridge Forum
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Explore the virtue of slowness

  • Added: Jun 28, 2007
  • Length: 28:59
What Are You Gonna Do with 400 Fish?
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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C'mon, bait your line. Let's go smelt fishin' on the ice.

Bought by PRX to iTunes, KGLT, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, The Nature Podcast, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 29, 2007
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 5
Corn Ethanol: Higher Food Prices
From: The Environment Report
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Corn ethanol is causing corn prices to go up. That will affect food bills.

Bought by WFUV


  • Added: Apr 23, 2007
  • Length: 04:21
  • Purchases: 1
The Three Sisters: Companion Planting on Organic Farms
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Farmers are turning to "companion planting," an agricultural trick that Native Americans came up with centuries ago.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
Studying & Sniffing: Becoming a Certified Beer Judge
From: Rebecca Sheir
Series: Soundbites: A Series On Food
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Drink your beer -- and judge it, too.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2006
  • Length: 04:54
RN Documentary: Diner Pensant
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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What our diet tells us about our relationship with the natural world.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KFAI Minneapolis, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Sep 21, 2006
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 3
The Secret Life of New York's Bees
From: Kate Hinds
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New York City has outlawed the practice of beekeeping, but local honey is in high demand. What's an apiarist to do? Keep hives on the sly, of cou...

Bought by WBEZ, The Nature Podcast, WFUV, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 01, 2006
  • Length: 05:14
  • Purchases: 4
A Cook's Notebook: The Hungry Ghosts
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Buddhism and baking bread

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 02, 2005
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 2
A Cook's Notebook: Lunch in the City
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A grandmother and her grand daughter have lunch together in the city.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 05, 2005
  • Length: 03:21
  • Purchases: 1

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