Eating Matters

Host Jenna Liut kicks off the Fall 2017 season interviewing Jessie Price, Editor in Chief of EatingWell magazine, which recently published its first annual American Food Heroes awards in their September / October issue. The article profiles ten individuals tackling the biggest food, sustainability and nutrition issues of today. Created to shine a light on the positive changes happening in our food system today, the inaugural awards honor heroes who are working to address a diverse set of challenges, from cleaning up fast food to making school lunches healthier.

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Host Jenna Liut speaks with Bruce Friedrich, Executive Director of the Good Food Institute, as association that works with scientists, investors, and entrepreneurs to bring clean meat and plant-based alternatives to animal products to market. Bruce explains the process behind creating clean (or "cultured") meat, the policy issues surrounding this burgeoning field and why vegans, vegetarians and omnivores should all be eating these products.

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Host Jenna Liut speaks with Stephen Ritz, an acclaimed Bronx educator and founder of the Bronx Green Machine, an impact driven, non profit. Originally an after-school, alternative program for high school students, Bronx Green Machine has evolved into a K-12+ model fully integrated into core curriculum. Stephen’s new book, The Power of a Plant, documents his own experience teaching for over 30 years in one of the most marginalized communities in the country, the South Bronx, and how he – quite accidentally – came to found an organization that addresses issues of childhood obesity, lack of access to healthy, affordable food and limited job opportunities that make it difficult to end the cycle of poverty in underserved neighborhoods.

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To kick off the summer season of Eating Matters, Jenna is joined in studio by fellow HRN host and author Katy Keiffer to talk about her new book, “What’s the Matter with Meat”? Katy – a meat eater herself – offers a comprehensive look at the industrialized meat system, both at home and abroad, and the negative effects it has on our environment, health and wellbeing.

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Host Jenna Liut is joined in the studio by Paulette Satur, farmer / owner of Satur Farms on the North Fork of Long Island. We will be discussing how Satur Farms got its start and what makes its model unique as well as gain deeper insight into what issues farmers face every day and how the industry has changed for smaller / mid sized “specialty crop” growers over the past decade.

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Demand for locally-grown and served foods has surged in the past few years across various segments within the food industry. On this episode, host Jenna Liut speaks with Rick Stein, VP of Fresh Foods at the Food Marketing Institute (FMI), about the degree to which demand has risen, why the market continues to shift in this direction and how both major food retailers and farmers are responding to this demand.

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On the episode, host Jenna Liut takes a slight detour from food policy to talk about nutrition for professional athletes...in the 1980s. Joining her to discuss is her dad, Mike Liut, a former goalie in the NHL, and her brother, Blake, who can be heard laughing in the background.

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On this episode of Eating Matters, host Jenna Liut speaks with Dr. Reese Halter about the effects of our current agricultural system on bee health, including recent declines in the bee population, its devastating repercussions and what everyone can do to reverse this trend. Dr. Reese is an author and distinguished conservation biologist specializing in Earth's life support systems.

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On today's episode of Eating Matters, host Jenna Liut speaks with Congressman Tim Ryan about his book, The Real Food Revolution, in which he writes about the myriad challenges facing our food system, the cumulative effect they have on our health and the environment, and some common sense actions that any of us can undertake as citizens to improve our collective quality of life, now and for future generations. Congressman Ryan represents Ohio’s 13th district, and was first elected to the US House of Representatives in 2002. He is now serving his eighth term, and is a member of the House Appropriations Committee and co-chairman of the Congressional Manufacturing Caucus.

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Host Jenna Liut dives into the world of food policy councils, seeking to understand what they are, where they operate and why they are important in this day and age. Jenna is joined on the line by Clare Fox, from the LA Food Policy Council, and both Karen Banks and Lily Sussman from the Food Communities and Public Health program at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future.

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