Supermarket cashiers, meal delivery folks, fast-food cooks, and farmworkers—all help keep society together. While that’s always been true, the COVID-19 crisis has put them in the spotlight. On this episode, we talk to food workers who are putting their lives on the line to feed the nation. You’ll hear about how their work has changed in big and small ways, from a Door Dasher’s elaborate cleaning routine to a small farm’s struggle to keep up with the surging demand for CSA boxes.
Sami Tamimi on the Delicious Complexity of Palestinian Food
Elderberries Don’t Boost Your Immune System, and Other Coronavirus Myths Debunked
Why We Need Black-Owned Food Media
Chef Dominique Crenn on Eating as Activism—and the Secret to Phenomenal Sandwiches
Swollen Hands, Rampant Contagion, No Sick Days: Processing Chicken During a Pandemic
White People Own 98 Percent of Rural Land. Young Farmers Are Asking for It Back.
A Science-Loving Chef's Guide to Eating Safely Right Now
How Does Your Pandemic Garden Grow?
Should Restaurants Be Saved?
Recipe for Escape
Your Best Dinner Option Is Hiding in Your Pantry
Many Restaurants May Never Re-Open After Coronavirus
103 – The Golden Arches’ Long Shadow on Black America
102 – You've Never Met Anyone Like This Bee Hunter
101 – Michael Pollan on the Iowa Farmers Who Will Sway the Election
100 – Who Are the Millennial Farmers?
Chicken, Waffles, and Smashing the Patriarchy
The Bizarre Fad Diet Taking the Far Right by Storm
99 – This Lab Makes Real Meat—But Not From Animals. Will You Eat It?
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