Earth Eats: Real Food, Green Living

Nov 15 2024 228 ep. 49 mins 16.5k
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Earth Eats is a show about food and farming. It’s storytelling, recipes, farm visits, and kitchen sessions. We have conversations with scholars, chefs, growers, and food justice activists. We hear from authors, artists, scientists, poets, and people who love to eat. Earth Eats is a production of WFIU Public Radio and Indiana Public Media.

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The bees are not alone in their hive

Nov 15 2024 51 mins  
“So, I like to say that bees are just like us. So, bees have a society, and they live in a built environment, [they have a] little house, just like we have a little house, and they communicate through dance. I don’t know if we communicate through dance, but I think dance is also a thing that humans do…” This week on the show we’re talking with microbiologist Irene Garcia

The night bakery–Derya Doğan shares delicious memories from home

Nov 08 2024 49 mins  
“Imagine, we have dinner at 7, 8 pm–my baba would take all of the çörek to the bakery and have it baked and he’s back home at 10pm–doesn’t matter! Fresh tea, hot tea, feta cheese, olives, breakfast–that’s like your night breakfast the day before Eid.” This week on the show, we spend time in the kitchen with Derya Dogan. She is a PhD candidate in Education Policy

Wherever there is a dialect there is a cuisine

Nov 01 2024 51 mins  
“There is a beautiful Hindustani saying, ‘Kosa kosa per pani badle, chare kosa per vani,’ which means "Every two miles the water changes, and every four the language." So that, in fact, is the geography of taste and terroir in India.” This week on the show, we talk with sociologist Krishnendu Ray about place and food and caste in India and how identity can be defined as mu

Something stinks in rural America

Oct 25 2024 51 mins  
"It really revolves around the environmental justice issues. These operations are popping up in communities of color, where they don't really have a lot of political clout. But these people have fought back." This week on the show a conversation with Sherri Dugger and Craig Watts with Socially Responsible Agriculture Project. We talk about the work they’re doing to support peopl

Growing familiar foods helps refugees feel at home

Oct 18 2024 50 mins  
Many of the farmers talked about the ability to be out in nature with other members of their family and other members of their community and several of them also talked about the benefits of being able to interact with people from other communities. This week on the show, we talk with geographer Pablo Bose about innovative resettlement projects that help refugees connect with famil

Local shop with a history serves home cooks and professionals, alike

Oct 11 2024 51 mins  
“As you walk through the doors, whether you like to cook or you don’t like to cook, you feel welcome, and things are accessible…” “What our vision is, is to make it a better world through breaking bread at the kitchen table, if you will.” This week on the show, we talk with co-owners of Bloomington’s independent, locally-owned kitchen supply store, Goods for Cooks.

Greek cuisine today sparks memory and nostalgia

Oct 04 2024 50 mins  
“As Greeks, we don't really shop from supermarkets. Everyone knows someone who knows someone who comes from a village and has access to olive trees and olive oil.” On today’s show, a conversation with Greek chef and anthropologist Nafsika Papacharalampous. She shares a recipe for Greek comfort food, and talks with me and Ogla Kalentzidou about the role of memory and nostalgi

Exploring the role of Burmese refugees in the US food system

Sep 27 2024 51 mins  
“We know that there are all sorts of good chemicals that come out of the dirt and working with land–working with plants–that are beneficial to our mood and our health. For refugee populations that have had to be on the run or had to live in refugee camps for decades, having a little piece of land that you can tend to that you can take care of and then see the results and not

Who are the modern day robber barons of our food system?

Sep 20 2024 51 mins  
“At least 100 years ago, the last robber barons, we got nice libraries out of it. This one, it’s like ‘oh, what is the family using its money for? To gut public education via charter school networks?’ It’s kind of Machiavellian–it’s Machiavellian in a really sad way” This week on the show, I’m talking with Austin Frerick, the author of Barons: Money, Power, and t

New Growth cultivates a sustainable local food system

Sep 13 2024 50 mins  
“And that’s why we call it a food value chain.You know, it’s a supply chain but it’s based on the values that you have as far as how the land is treated, how people are treated, what kind of nutrition contents in your food–all those things [that] people up and down–from the farmer to the consumer have an interest in. And so, this system that we’re developing is about