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California Dreams and Flossie’s Mississippi Tamales
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
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Gravy shares the story of Flossie’s, a restaurant serving Mississippi-style hot tamales in Los Angeles, and the mother-daughter dream that fueled it.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 55:32
Mahalia Jackson's Glori-Fried Chicken
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
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Gospel star Mahalia Jackson used fried chicken to push for economic empowerment in the Black community.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 25:24
257: Black Food: Liberation, Food Justice and Stewardship , 2/14/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Karen Washington and Bryant Terry, Credit: Alex Akamine
The influences of Africans and Black Americans on food and agriculture is rooted in ancestral African knowledge and traditions of shared labor, wor...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
EE 24-07: Author Jori Lewis on the natural and human history of the peanut , 2/16/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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While peanut butter is one of my favorite foods, I can’t say that I have given much thought to the peanut as a crop, or paid any attention to its r...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
StoryCorps Griot: Bernetta McKindra and Ray Mabion II
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Bernetta McKindra and Ray Mabion II at their StoryCorps interview in Kansas City on September 15, 2023, Credit: Tamekia Jackson for StoryCorps
Bernetta came to StoryCorps with her friend, Raymond Mabion II to talk about her grandfather, and the food legacy he’s passed down.

  • Added: Jan 16, 2024
  • Length: 02:23
“Where there’s flavor, there’s history:” Zella Palmer talks about food in New Orleans
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Caption: Dr. Zella Palmer, Credit: Courtesy of Dillard University
“Where there’s flavor, there’s history:” Educator, Author, and Filmmaker Dr. Zella Palmer discusses her work in preserving the legacy of African-Am...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2023
  • Length: 28:40
Dinner Theatre (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Thanksgiving Specials
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Michael Carter Jr left America looking for home in Ghana. Now, on his fifth generation farm, he’s growing farmers through what he calls Africulture.

  • Added: Nov 17, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
Dinner Theatre (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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Michael Carter Jr left America looking for home in Ghana. Now, on his fifth generation farm, he’s growing farmers through what he calls Africulture.

Bought by KHEN-LP, WORT, and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 17, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 3
Dinner Theatre (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Thanksgiving Specials
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Michael Carter Jr left America looking for home in Ghana. Now, on his fifth generation farm, he’s growing farmers through what he calls Africulture.

Bought by KUAC


  • Added: Nov 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Dinner Theatre (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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Michael Carter Jr left America looking for home in Ghana. Now, on his fifth generation farm, he’s growing farmers through what he calls Africulture.

Bought by WUTC, Kansas Public Radio, WFHB, WRMU, KIYU-FM and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
Dinner Theatre (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Thanksgiving Specials
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Michael Carter Jr left America looking for home in Ghana. Now, on his fifth generation farm, he’s growing farmers through what he calls Africulture.

Bought by KUAC


  • Added: Nov 17, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 1
Dinner Theatre (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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Michael Carter Jr left America looking for home in Ghana. Now, on his fifth generation farm, he’s growing farmers through what he calls Africulture.

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, KVCR, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KRWG, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
Dinner Theatre (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Thanksgiving Specials
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Michael Carter Jr left America looking for home in Ghana. Now, on his fifth generation farm, he’s growing farmers through what he calls Africulture.

Bought by KUAC


  • Added: Nov 17, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
Dinner Theatre (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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Michael Carter Jr left America looking for home in Ghana. Now, on his fifth generation farm, he’s growing farmers through what he calls Africulture.

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, KVCR, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KIYU-FM, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Nov 17, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
Annie Fisher’s Beaten Biscuits Meant Business
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
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Gravy digs into the history of beaten biscuits, the tender, flaky hardtack rolls that date back to the 1800s, and the success of entrepreneur Annie...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 25:28
The Birthplace of Mac n Cheese (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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You have Chef James Hemings, who cooked for Thomas Jefferson, to thank for the macaroni and cheese on your plate this Thanksgiving.

Bought by KSFR, Kansas Public Radio, WFHB, WRMU, KIYU-FM and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
The Birthplace of Mac n Cheese (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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You have Chef James Hemings, who cooked for Thomas Jefferson, to thank for the macaroni and cheese on your plate this Thanksgiving.

Bought by KHEN-LP, KECG, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Birthplace of Mac n Cheese (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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You have Chef James Hemings, who cooked for Thomas Jefferson, to thank for the macaroni and cheese on your plate this Thanksgiving.

Bought by KRVS, WUGA (part of GPB), KPBS, WMUU-LP, KEDT and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
The Birthplace of Mac n Cheese (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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You have Chef James Hemings, who cooked for Thomas Jefferson, to thank for the macaroni and cheese on your plate this Thanksgiving.

Bought by KPBS, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KIYU-FM, Troy Public Radio, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
Frozen River Film Fest 2022: Loon
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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The FRFF is a festival held around Winona that features a variety of documentary films. Though these films vary in message, topic, and substance th...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 31:15
StoryCorps: Burnell Cotlon and Lillie Cotlon
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Lillie Cotlon and Burnell Cotlon in front of Burnell’s store, ‘Burnell’s Lower Ninth Ward Market’ in New Orleans, Louisiana on August 19, 2015., Credit: By Ian Spencer Cook for StoryCorps.
Eight years after their original StoryCorps interview, Burnell Cotlon reflects with his mother, Lillie Cotlon, about opening up a store in New Orle...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2023
  • Length: 06:09
EE 23-39: Jessica Wilson talks about what we get wrong when we focus on weight, 9/22/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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“Our bodies aren’t the problem,” rethinking the stories we tell about weight and health with dietician Jessica Wilson.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
37: Celebrating James Beard Award Winners of the Midwest, 9/14/2023
From: Heritage Radio Network
Series: Eat Your Heartland Out
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Marissa Gencarelli is the co-founder of Yoli Tortilleria in Kansas City where they make tortillas using traditional Mexican methods. Damarr Brown i...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 54:04
EE 23-36: Make time for coffee, 9/1/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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A conversation with Korie Griggs of the Color of Coffee Collective.

  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
813: In Search Of Real Food / 814: Telling A Life, 7/22/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "In Search Of Real Food" - Supermarkets are designed to make you think you have a lot of choices. But do you? This hour, reclaiming real ...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:01