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You might think of Coca Cola as an iconic American brand… but it was born in the South. How did Coke’s Atlanta birthplace shape what the soft drink...
Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and KVLU
- Added: Dec 01, 2016
- Length: 25:24
- Purchases: 2
Chef, restaurateur, and author Marcus Samuelsson’s dazzlingly creative approach to food and to hospitality is rooted in a deep appreciation of food...
- Added: Oct 25, 2016
- Length: 26:45
- Purchases: 2
Tracye McQuirter, author of By Any Greens Necessary, has partnered with Farm Sanctuary to create and write the first African American Vegan Starter...
Bought by 'The Sea'
- Added: Oct 24, 2016
- Length: 28:32
- Purchases: 1
One spring day in 1965, a waiter in Greenwood, Mississippi gave an interview for an NBC television documentary. What he said has made him an unlike...
Bought by KVLU
- Added: Sep 22, 2016
- Length: 36:08
- Purchases: 1
The residents of Mossville, Louisiana have long prized self-sufficiency. Founded by freed slaves in the 1700s, Mossville was a place where everyone...
Bought by KVLU
- Added: May 19, 2016
- Length: 31:37
- Purchases: 1
Shirley Sherrod’s introduction to the intermingling of agriculture and racism came when she was 17 years old, with an incident that changed the cou...
Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WJCT, WABE, and KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA
- Added: Jan 01, 2016
- Length: 50:14
- Purchases: 4
The image of the Mississippi Delta the public usually gets is one of poverty-- or of cotton fields. But, on a search for women like her grandmother...
- Added: Dec 03, 2015
- Length: 25:16
- Purchases: 2
Black-eyed peas and collards. Fried chicken and peach cobbler. Customers at Delicious Southern Cuisine in Los Angeles come for these soul food sta...
- Added: Nov 19, 2015
- Length: 27:08
- Purchases: 2
What does *not* eating meat say about you? In one young biracial man’s family, his dietary change was construed as white, elite, even feminine. In ...
- Added: Sep 10, 2015
- Length: 24:40
- Purchases: 3
Burnell Cotlon owns and operates the only grocery store in the Lower Ninth Ward. When it opened in 2014, it was the first grocery store to serve th...
- Added: Aug 21, 2015
- Length: 02:11
- Purchases: 2
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: House Passes Bill That Would Ban State Laws Mandating Labeling of GMO Food...
- Added: Aug 08, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, how does the city’s food reveal how the place has changed? The stories of a wine bar, and...
Bought by KUT, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KMUN, KOSU and more
- Added: Aug 05, 2015
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 18
Charleston, South Carolina has become the center of discussions about race and violence in America these past few weeks. But a dinner party held in...
- Added: Jul 02, 2015
- Length: 28:18
- Purchases: 3
Fried chicken has both been the vehicle for the economic empowerment of a whole group of people—and the accessory to an ugly racial stereotype. How...
Bought by KVLU, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 18, 2015
- Length: 25:51
- Purchases: 4
audio postcard or sonic id describing koolaid pickles from 4th graders in Helena, Arkansas
- Added: May 18, 2015
- Length: 01:58
This food-justice-related audio collage features the voices of Sir Charles Gardner and Carl Johnson, co-managers of Gardens United, a community gar...
- Added: Jan 02, 2015
- Length: 04:52
Albeit a centerpiece both in form and function, the cuisine at our favorite restaurant is just plain food if not paired with conversation, company,...
- Added: Jul 21, 2014
- Length: 28:35
Just north of Jack London Square, inside Oakland’s oldest building, you’ll find one of the East Bay’s most celebrated soul food eateries. Even more...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 04:07
Melba Wilson is the comfort food queen of New York City. Her Harlem restaurant, Melba's, is an international destination for soul food aficionadoes...
- Added: Apr 02, 2014
- Length: 30:01
More than eight years after it flooded and closed due to Hurricane Katrina, the Circle Food Store on the corner of Claiborne and St Bernard Avenues...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 12, 2014
- Length: 04:42
- Purchases: 3
English professor and Harlem Renaissance expert Rafia Zafar discusses the ways in which food relates to ethnic, personal, and class identity.
- Added: Nov 25, 2013
- Length: 08:55
Sound Bites on Delmarva producer Mark Gunnery visits Baltimore's newest farmer's market, Union Graze, and catches up with a farmer, a farm intern, ...
Bought by WCSU-FM and WESM 91.3 FM
- Added: Jun 20, 2013
- Length: 09:05
- Purchases: 2
What does it feel like to wait in line for food?
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 07:51
- Purchases: 2
An hour-long program exploring the musical, cultural, and culinary landscape of New Orleans.
- Added: Mar 04, 2013
- Length: 59:00
“Rhythms of the Land!” is a documentary-in-progress which tells the important stories of African American farmers. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and...
- Added: Mar 04, 2013
- Length: 28:00
