DonnaLonna Kitchen Show

By DonnaLonna Kitchen Show

Chef Donna Prizgintas and farmer, artist Lonna Nachtigal explore their rural Midwestern food community with lively discussion and good humor. On the DonnaLonna Kitchen show, their long-running and aw... more

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The podcast currently has 120 episodes available.

DonnaLonna Kitchen Show episodes:

September 07, 2023 069: Wendy Johnson, Kernza, Joia Farm
Wendy Johnson joins us at the kitchen table to talk about her farm (Joia Food Farm) her farm journey and her joy of growing local food. We explore Kernza, the new, perennial grain that Wendy is trialing on her farm and helping to introduce to the market. Donna gives a history of perennial grain breeding at the Land Institute by Wes Jackson and her experience in baking with Kernza. Wendy talks about her sheep flock, how sheep are integrated into the crop and grazing rotation at Joia Farm and her marketing of the wool through her company Counting Sheep Sleep Company.
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49min
August 31, 2023 068: Pork, Preserving, Potluck, Curry
A potpourri of food topics! Donna talks about attending the annual Niman Ranch Farmer Appreciation Dinner. Tips for preserving the summer harvest, Lonna visits a local food potluck/picnic and shares a recipe for fermenting hot peppers and raw okra salad. Writer, cook and world traveller Gheeta Iyer joins Lonna at the DonnaLonna Kitchen table. She shares her thoughts on Indian food and explains why curry is a verb.
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50min
August 17, 2023 066: Sundog Farm, Food, Tools and Stories
Donna and Lonna visit with Carmen and Maja Black, farmers at Sundog Farm and Local Harvest CSA in Solon, Iowa. Sundog Farm grows vegetables, flowers, sheep, goats, and chickens for the local market. The farm has spread across five locations thanks to creative cooperation with other farmers and innovative use of season extension. The Black sisters talk about scaling up their farm with size-appropriate tools, tractors and good humor.
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51min
August 10, 2023 065: Salt, Seasoning, Saltlickers
Donna and Lonna talk with Jennifer Knox, co-owner of the business Saltlickers located in Nevada, Iowa. With great skill and good humor, Jen and her husband, Collin Switzer, bring salt and herb blends to the farmers markets of central Iowa and also retail outlets and mailboxes across the nation. We talk about creating a product, selling an idea and tickling taste buds across the state and beyond.
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50min
July 27, 2023 065: State Fair, Summer Bounty
Tomatoes and sweet corn - fresh from the garden. We look ahead to the Iowa State Fair and DLK's upcoming cooking demonstration at the fair. Donna reviews the recipes. We celebrate Iowa food with polenta with candied tomatoes and lard pound cake with berries and whipped cream. Also some thoughts on gazpacho, zucchini, carrot top pesto and elderberries. Lonna reads about the Automat, a short food history from the book Food of a Younger Land.
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48min
July 20, 2023 064: Eat Your Vegetables
The summer garden is a good time to resolve to eat healthy. Get away from processed food and be cautious about using the sweetener, aspartame. We talk about garlic and beets with recipe advice from Donna. Lonna talks about bush beans, pole beans, the first garden tomatoes of the season, harvesting and drying herbs and some of the science behind breeding the Cherry Plum. We explore edible flowers and Donna gives her sure-fire recipe for keeping squirrels out of her nasturtiums.
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50min
July 13, 2023 063: Fred Kirchenmann, Learning from Our Mistakes
From a 2018 interview with Fred Kirchenmann, we revisit a talk about the state of modern agriculture: What we have done, what we have learned, and what we can learn to do better. Fred Kirchenmann is the past director of the Leopold Center, board member of the Stone Barns Center for Renewable Agriculture, organic grain farmer, philosopher and proponent of thoughtful choices regarding our relationship to our world.
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51min
June 29, 2023 062: Cherries, Fruit Recipes
The DonnaLonna Kitchen show talks about everything cherry: harvesting cherries, pitting cherries, cherry pie, and a very good cherry ice cream recipe. Pitting cherries can be quite a messy adventure but as Donna says, it is well worth the effort. We also explore the book Pulp: A practical guide for cooking with fruit written by Abra Behrens. We explore sweet, savory and unexpected recipes for fruit.
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48min
June 22, 2023 061: Restoring the Prairie with Shelley Buffalo
Shelley Buffalo is The Colonial Pathfinder for the Meskwaki Tribe. She is an advocate for local food sovereignty, food justice and rematriation. Donna and Lonna talk with her about the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa, indigenous management of the prairie, food ways and thoughts on colonization. Join Shelley at her upcoming Practical Farmers of Iowa field day on June 28, 2023: Rematriating Iowa’s Historical Prairie: Combining Historical Management Techniques to Foster Modern Conservation
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52min
June 15, 2023 060: Goats, Simple Life Farms
We start our podcast with talk about honey berries and a recipe for Creamy Sorrel soup. Then our guest Diana Smith from Simple Life Farms in Winterset, Iowa, joins us to tell us about dairy goats. Diana talks about making great goat cheese, soap and lotions.
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50min

FAQs about DonnaLonna Kitchen Show:

How many episodes does DonnaLonna Kitchen Show have?

The podcast currently has 120 episodes available.