Feeding People

Amy talks with longtime friend Sarah Deardorff Miller, Senior Fellow at Refugees International, about the current refugee and family separation situation in the U.S., the role of food in the refugee resettlement process and the ways which Sarah has experienced beautiful hospitality as she has eaten food all around the world.

Amy talks with Emma Brewster and Joe Lindsay, owners of David’s Delicatessen & Coffee, about the importance of sourcing local food in their restaurant, their famous Corned Beef Off that brings the community together, and their desire to create a welcoming, one-of-kind experience for all who walk through their doors.

Amy talks with Zuri Thompson, the founder and director of Pearly Peas, a program designed to feed seniors living in food insecure communities nutritious food. Zuri shares how she found her passion for food and feeding seniors, as well as how she currently sees cooking food for family and friends as her most important work.

In celebration of Pride month, Chicago artist and activist Darren Calhoun shares his experience as a black, Christian, gay man and encourages us to embrace change and healing close to home. (This episode was recorded live at Sunday Supper Church, June 23, 2019.)

After participating in the Food and Faith event alongside one hundred interfaith leaders, politicians, climate change experts and farmers, host Amy Dolan shares her inspiring and life-changing experience and how she plans to connect her learnings on land, labor and food with her life and work.

Amy talks with Wendy Zeldin, the 61st Street Farmers Market Manager and Food Educator, about Jewish grandmothers, food accessibility and her hope that the Chicago agricultural scene will grow in order to provide access for all to healthy, affordable, good food.

Host Amy Dolan and her husband, Kelly, share their story of infertility, and the role of food and tables in times of grief and loss.

Amy talks with Maui Jones, Founder and Artistic Director of Echo Theater Collective, about their shared love of ketchup on hot dogs, how food shapes connection and healing, and their dissatisfaction with the institutional church and its upholding of white supremacist ideals.

Musician, artist and social justice activist Dan Stanford reflects on how his family’s relationship to meal time shaped his current thinking about food, as well as how sharing a meal with someone and sitting at the table eye to eye with others provides equalization in a world of social imbalances.

In this first episode of Season 2, school administrator Dr. Erica Bauer joins Amy for a meaningful conversation around the power dynamics that exist at every table, and how her experiences growing up shaped the way she approaches food and justice work today.