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Chattin' about the power of heritage, alternative, landrace grains with Sarah Owens - a New York City based cookbook author, baker, gardener, and instructor. She’s a James Beard award winner for her first book Sourdough and recently released her second book Toast & Jam.

Our adventures in the world of women and wine continue with Helen Johannesen of Helen's Wines--her eponymous shop in LA. She's also the wine director of Jon & Vinny's restaurant group, e.g. Kismet, Animal, Petit Trois, etc. She's got taste, style and values when it comes to the wines she enjoys and she's here to share that passion and intel with pineapple.

What do masterful storytelling, world-renowned female chefs and progressive agriculture all have in common? Our friend Abby Fuller, an award-winning documentarian and the youngest and only woman director of our fave Netflix show Chef’s Table.

From Chef Ana Roš’s kitchen in Slovenia to a regenerative cattle farm in Virginia, Abby highlights critical issues in our food system by filming the most highly acclaimed chefs, farmers and activists who are changing the way we eat. We chat with Abby to hear all about how women are transforming filmmaking, farming and food and what we can all do to create a better food system and world with the power of our voice.

Beauty as wellness is all about body positivity, womanhood & food. We chat with Cindy DiPrima Moirsse & Kerrilyn Pamer, founders of CAP Beauty all about their content, products, and community, plus we'll dig into the juicy things like - what does beauty truly mean anyhow? How do we truly embrace wellness in ourselves and others while fighting impossible beauty standards, a fatphobic society, and body image challenges? How can we embrace a more inclusive wellness culture - with diverse races, bodies, genders, ages?

We're chatting with Julia Sherman of Salad for President all about where food and art intersect. Through Julia’s history growing up with artists, studying and practicing art, and ultimately finding her artistic expression through salad, we experience food in wholly new way.

From living with Benedictine nuns clad in denim habits, to constructing gardens on the rooftops of venerable art museums, Julia reminds us that we are all creative. We don’t need to study art history or master the art of French cooking to express ourselves. We #pinefor her because she encourages us to find the artists within ourselves by stealing ideas, breaking the rules, finding the magic in the everyday, and simply creating.

Today on our show we’re chatting with one of our heros, Jessica Koslow. She’s the girl behind Sqirl - aka the restaurant at the forefront of the California cooking renaissance--food that is both virtuous, delicious and oh so seasonal. Bacon lovers and vegans obsess over it equally and there’s always something new to dig into. We love Sqirl, we love her cookbook “Everything I want to Eat”, we love her jams, and her swag. And we’re honored to chat on the air to chat about her style, identity and values through food.

Our fave subjects include wine, wellness, creativity, and style. This episode is all about just that. We chat with Carlie Steiner, co-owner & beverage director at Himitsu - an offbeat & whimsical Japanese inspired joint with an inspired wine & spirits menu. We learn more about Carlie's background, and of course her style, identity and values around wine. Plus, at the end of the show we learn more about the experience around wine with a junk food x fine wine pairing session.

We talk culinary appropriation, sovereignty, pride and power today with two guest we #pinefor Sunyatta Amen and Krystal Mack. When we think about food, it’s easy to fall back comfortably into feelings of nostalgia, of sharing and savoring. But what happens when your traditions are taken by others that profit from them? We’re at a moment when kimchi is referred to as “trendy” and a “Best Barbecue” roundup doesn’t include any black people, and a chopped cheese (which are those NY bodega chopped hamburger sandwiches) are sold for ten bucks at an upscale supermarket. On the other hand, food can of course, build bridges. By learning the cuisines of others, we see through the lens of a culture we’ve never looked through before. Yet, if we exploit the food and those who create it for our own gain, we decidedly burn those bridges. So, where do we draw the line?

We're chattin' all things ice cream with Victoria Lai of Ice Cream Jubilee and Rabia Kamara of Ruby Scoops. In true pineapple fashion, this conversation goes beyond the surface of our fave frozen confections. We cover a large swaths of topics all through the lens of sweet treats like food freedom, collaboration over competition, sourcing & the supply chain, employment & labor, innovation and creativity, and representation in the ice cream biz.

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We chat with Colu Henry and Domenica Marchetti on the topic of pasta, because there’s much more to it than meets the eye. There’s power, resistance and a herstory to pasta. On this episode we’ll dig into vast range of dishes plus the role of women in pasta-making and embracing a riots not diets lifestyle, always.