On this week's episode of Eat Your Words, Cathy is joined in studio by Megan Elias, author of Food on the Page, the first comprehensive history of American cookbooks from the early 1800s to the present day. Following food writing through trends such as the Southern nostalgia that emerged in the late nineteenth century, the Francophilia of the 1940s, countercultural cooking in the 1970s, and today's cult of locally sourced ingredients, Elias reveals that what we read about food influences us just as much as what we taste.

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This week on Eat Your Words, Cathy is joined by Robyn Eckhardt author of Istanbul and Beyond, a cookbook that delves into the unique cuisine of Turkey. The book is the result of two decades of research and traveling in Turkey and is rich with insights and visually stunning photos of Turkish traditional dishes.

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It’s in our food, our water, our air, soil and our own bodies. It’s the most widely used herbicide in all of human history, and while farmers and homeowners alike use it regularly, this pesticide carries an array of dangers the corporations that profit from it don’t want you to know about. This week on Eat Your Words, Cathy chats with Carey Gilliam, author of *Whitewash: the Story of a Weed killer, Cancer & Corruption of Science*. The book discusses the use of Monsanto's glyphosate herbicide, known commonly by consumers as Roundup. Whitewash contains many revelations not only about how pervasive this and other pesticides are now in our food production system, but how hard corporate entities like Monsanto have worked to conceal the truth.

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On this week's episode of Eat Your Words, Cathy is joined by Julia Turshen, author of Small Victories and Feed the Resistance. Julia has also co-authored such cookbooks as Spain…A Culinary Road Trip with Mario Batali, It’s All Good with Gwyneth Paltrow, Mastering My Mistakes in the Kitchen with Dana Cowin, and The Kimchi Chronicles, Hot Bread Kitchen: The Cookbook, The Fat Radish Kitchen Diaries, and Buvette: The Pleasure of Good Food.

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On this week's episode of Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway is joined by historian Lizzie Collingham, author of The Taste of Empire: How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World. Collingham's book tells the story of how the British Empire's quest for food shaped the modern world. Told through twenty meals over the course of 450 years, from the Far East to the New World, Collingham explains how Africans taught Americans how to grow rice, how the East India Company turned opium into tea, and how Americans became the best-fed people in the world. In The Taste of Empire, Collingham masterfully shows that only by examining the history of Great Britain's global food system, from sixteenth-century Newfoundland fisheries to our present-day eating habits, can we fully understand our capitalist economy and its role in making our modern diets.

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On this week's episode of Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway is joined by writer Adam Federman, author of Fasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray. Federman tells the remarkable―and until now untold―life story of Patience Gray, author of the celebrated cookbook Honey from a Weed. Gray lived in a remote area of Puglia in southernmost Italy. She lived without electricity, modern plumbing, or a telephone, grew much of her own food, and gathered and ate wild plants alongside her neighbors in this economically impoverished region. Her influence, particularly among chefs and other food writers, has had a lasting and profound effect on the way we view and celebrate good food and regional cuisines. Gray’s prescience was unrivaled: She wrote about what today we would call the Slow Food movement―from foraging to eating locally―long before it became part of the cultural mainstream.

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On this week's episode of Eat Your Words, Cathy is joined by former New Yorker editor Emily Nunn, author of The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart.

One life-changing night, reeling from her beloved brother’s sudden death, a devastating breakup with her handsome engineer fiancé and eviction from the apartment they shared, Emily Nunn had lost all sense of family, home, and financial security. After a few glasses of wine, heartbroken and unmoored, Emily—an avid cook and professional food writer—poured her heart out on Facebook. The next morning she woke up with an awful hangover and a feeling she’d made a terrible mistake—only to discover she had more friends than she knew, many of whom invited her to come visit and cook with them while she put her life back together. Thus began the Comfort Food Tour.

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On the season premiere of Eat Your Words, Cathy is joined by journalist Ted Genoways, an acclaimed journalist and author of The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food. A contributing editor at Mother Jones, the New Republic, and Pacific Standard, he is the winner of a National Press Club Award and the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, and is a two-time James Beard Foundation Award finalist. He has received fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation. In his most recent book THIS BLESSED EARTH: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm Ted follows a family through a year in the life of their farm, from one fall harvest to the next, and explores the intimate truth of this perilous but noble way of life. This Blessed Earth is a story that gets right to the heart of our national identity.

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On the season finale of Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway is joined in the studio by fellow HRN host Michael Harlan Turkell, whose first book, Acid Trip, is out this week! The book is a journey through the world of vinegar, and includes recipes from chefs Daniel Boulud, Barbara Lynch, Michael Anthony, April Bloomfield, Massimo Bottura, Sean Brock, and more.

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This week on Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway is joined in the studio by Stephanie Villani, owner of Blue Moon Fish in Mattituck, Long Island, and co-author of The Fisherman's Wife: Sustainable Recipes and Salty Stories. Also joining is Stephanie's co-author, Kevin Bay.

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