Repast

Dec 09 2024 29 ep. 37 mins 3

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A food law and policy podcast from the Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy at UCLA Law. Each month we interview a thought leader in the field of food law and policy to discuss past achievements, current developments, and future challenges.

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Looking at the "to" in Farm to Table with Nicola Twilley

Dec 09 2024 41 mins

In this episode, Michael and Diana talk with Nicola Twilley, the author of Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves (Penguin Press, June 2024), and co-host of the award-winning Gastropod podcast, which looks at food through the lens of history and science. They discuss supply chains, how refrigerated beef changed America, and the trade-offs of refrig

Not Even Customer Service Knows: Discussing the disclosure of animal-derived ingredients on package labels with Amanda Howell

Nov 18 2024 30 mins

This month on Repast Michael and Diana talk with Amanda Howell, managing attorney at the Animal Legal Defense Fund. They discuss a recent petition by the ALDF to the FDA urging the FDA require the disclosure of animal-derived ingredients on package labels, along with other work the ALDF is doing right now. Amanda Howell is a managing attorney at ALDF. Michael T. Roberts is the Exec

All Chocolate is Not Sweet: A Conversation with Catherine Sweetser

Sep 16 2024 33 mins

In this episode, Michael and Diana talk with Catherine Sweetser, Deputy Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights and the Director of the Human Rights Litigation Clinic at UCLA Law. Here, Professor Sweetser discusses her work against slavery and human trafficking in the global food supply chain, particularly in the context of chocolate production, the U.S. Supreme Court ca

Milk – does it do a body good? A discussion of the politics of U.S. food law and policy with Andrea Freeman

Aug 05 2024 31 mins

This month, Repast welcomes Southwestern Law School Professor Andrea Freeman to discuss her book, Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch, published by Macmillan Publishers in July 2024. This book describes and analyzes how food is used by the U.S. as a tool of colonization and oppression and discusses some

Who Isn't Happy After a Good Meal? Austin Frerick and the Corruption of the Food Industry

May 02 2024 32 mins

Our guest at Repast this month is Austin Frerick, author, and expert on agricultural and antitrust policy, talking with us about his new book, Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry (March 2024). In Barons, Frerick depicts the structure of the American food system by telling the story of seven food industry tycoons, delving into the monopolization of

Endangered Eating with Sarah Lohman

Feb 29 2024 41 mins

This month, Repast welcomes Sarah Lohman, culinary historian, author, and speaker, about her new book, Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods. In this book, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, a Food & Wine Best Book of 2023, and an Eater Best Food Book, Fall 2023, Lohman explores the history and present of certain ingredients from the Ark of Taste, a list put

Getting a Full Stomach of Information with Professor Xaq Frohlich

Nov 28 2023 40 mins

In this episode of Repast, Michael and Diana were delighted to talk with Xaq Frohlich, Professor of History at Auburn University and author of From Label to Table: Regulating Food in the Information Age, recently published by the University of California Press. From Label to Table is a fascinating dive into the historical development of the food label from a multi-faceted perspecti

Get on the Bus with USDA’s Director of Nutrition Security and Health Equity, Dr. Caree Cotwright

Nov 01 2023 29 mins

In this episode of Repast, Michael and Diana welcome Dr. Caree Cotwright, the Director of Nutrition Security and Health Equity for the Food and Nutrition Service, USDA. In her role at USDA, Dr. Cotwright leads a whole-of-department approach at USDA to advance food and nutrition security, which is one of USDA Secretary Vilsacks five core priorities. Dr. Cotwright is on leave from he

Talking About Turmeric (and Food Fraud) with Wudan Yan

Sep 20 2023 39 mins

Today on Repast, Michael and Diana talk with Wudan Yan, an award-winning narrative journalist covering science and society, about an article she published in July of this year about lead-tainted turmeric. In this article, Wudan looked at the Bangladesh supply chain for turmeric to discuss turmeric adulteration, the battle against this adulteration, and confronting food fraud more b

Adrian Miller, Dropping Knowledge Like Hot Biscuits

Aug 30 2023 40 mins

This month, Repast welcomes Adrian Miller. Known as the Soul Food Scholar, Adrian Miller is a culinary historian, James Beard award-winning food writer, former White House staffer, and a certified BBQ judge. He is also a recovering lawyer. Adrian, Diana, and Amber Ward, a 2L at Columbia Law School and the Resnick Center’s summer research assistant, discuss the history of Black cu