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BOOKS HAVE POWER! (BUT YOU KNOW THAT.)

At Real Food Media, we believe that, too. And when it comes to food, we believe books are central to help us understand what’s broken in our food system and how to fix it. We also believe that coming together to read books – debate them, question them, discuss them and celebrate them – is a fabulous way to build community and learn about our food system at the same time.

With Real Food Reads, you’ll get ideas for books to bring to your community, shared discussion questions for book clubs, podcast interviews with the authors, and – of course! – recipe pairings for bringing delicious food and drinks to your discussions. When you dive into a Real Food Reads selection of the month, you do so knowing that others all across the country are curling up with the same book, grappling with similar questions and big ideas. Get all the host resources at realfoodmedia.org.

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Black Food Matters: Dr. Ash...

07.21.2021

“Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice” centers the Black experience within the US food system: what is missing and what is possible. Edited by Dr. Ashanté M. Reese and Hanna Garth, this anthology features voices ...

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07.21.2021 Black Food Matters: Dr. Ashanté M. Reese \| Ep. 50 “Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice” centers the Black experience within the US food system: what is missing and what is possible. Edited by Dr. Ashanté M. Reese and Hanna Garth, this anthology features voices ...
06.17.2021 Building Community Food Webs: Ken Meter \| Ep. 49 Ken Meter is one of the most experienced food system analysts in the United States. He's promoted local food economies in 143 regions in 41 states, two provinces, and four tribal nations. In Building Community Food Webs, he makes a ...
05.26.2021 Foodtopias \| Ep 5: Abolishing Exploitation & Prison Slavery in College Food Meet: the Food Justice League. No, they’re not superheroes. They’re a growing community-based movement based in Gainesville, FL, that’s working to abolish exploitation and prison slavery from the food system. They’ve launched a public campaign to pressure the University of ...
05.03.2021 Traveling with Sugar: Amy Moran-Thomas \| Ep. 48 Like many Caribbean and Central American nations, Belize is a place where healthy, diverse farming systems have been violently replaced with sugar plantations. The legacy of that dispossession is yet another sugar-related violence: diabetes. Cultural anthropologist Amy Moran-Thomas contextualizes diabetes ...
03.15.2021 The Monsanto Papers: Carey Gillam \| Ep. 47 Carey Gillam’s 2017 book, Whitewash, exposed the dangers of the world’s most popular weedkiller: Monsanto’s Roundup. Gillam’s new book, The Monsanto Papers, tells the riveting story of the man who became the face of a David-and-Goliath showdown against one of ...
12.21.2020 Foodtopias \| Ep 4: Making Space for BIPOC Farmers Allinee ‘shiny’ Flanary—founder of Come Thru Market, a Black, Indigenous, and People of Color(BIPOC) producer farmer’s market in Portland, OR—joins us for the season finale of Foodtopias to talk about the origins of the market, what it looks like to ...
12.10.2020 Perilous Bounty: Tom Philpott \| Ep. 46 A veteran journalist and former farmer, Tom Philpott cracks open US agriculture—and where it went horribly wrong. Highlighting scientists documenting the damage and the farmers and activists pushing back, Perilous Bounty is a must-read for eaters and activists alike. This ...
11.23.2020 Foodtopias \| Ep. 3: Peasant Women Feed the World The global peasant leader and food sovereignty activist Elizabeth Mpofu speaks to us about growing up in a farming family in Zimbabwe, practicing climate resilient agriculture, and how rural women are impacted by Covid-19. Mpofu is General Coordinator of the ...
10.12.2020 Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States: Devon Mihesuah \| Ep. 45 Centuries of colonization have disrupted Indigenous communities’ ability to control their own food systems. But throughout the United States, projects are underway to reclaim and protect the land, water, plants, animals, and food & farming practices that underpin Indigenous self-determination ...
09.30.2020 Bite Back: Jose Oliva \| Ep. 44 Long-time Real Food Media friend and ally Jose Oliva joins us to talk about his co-authored chapter, “Food Workers versus Food Giants.” In this dynamic conversation, we cover the food system’s legacy of slavery, corporate consolidation, unions, and the strategies ...
09.24.2020 Foodtopias \| Ep. 2: Black Agrarian Resistance in Jackson Dr. Cindy Ayers, head farmer and CEO of Footprint Farms in Jackson, MS, is carrying on a long legacy of activism and farming. Descended from Civil Rights veterans and sharecroppers, her 68-acre farm is a hub for learning and support, ...
09.23.2020 Foodtopias \| Ep. 1: Laboring in a Pandemic For the debut episode of Foodtopias, we speak with labor organizers Axel Fuentes (Rural Community Workers Alliance) and Christina Spach (Food Chain Workers Alliance) about working conditions in the meat processing industry pre-Covid and during the pandemic, and the worker-led ...
09.21.2020 Foodtopias \| Trailer Our newest podcast series, Foodtopias, showcases the stories and strategies of workers, farmers, healers, ecologists, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color), womxn, and community organizers who are growing food & cultivating utopia. The inspiration we need for building a ...
06.24.2020 The New American Farmer: Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern \| Ep. 43 In her new book, Minkoff-Zern argues that farmworkers have the skills and the knowledge to lead the sustainable farming movement, if given the opportunity. The book shares powerful stories of farmworkers who have successfully transitioned to owning and operating their ...
05.20.2020 The Labor of Lunch: Jennifer Gaddis \| Ep. 42 Jennifer Gaddis takes us into the world of school lunch—and it’s not pretty: unhealthy food and exploited cafeteria workers abound. But all that can change if we organize together to make fair and healthy school food a reality for all ...
03.24.2020 Vegetable Kingdom: Bryant Terry \| Ep. 41 Bryant Terry's stunning collection of recipes is a celebration of vegetables and flavors from the African and Asian diaspora. This episode explores his ethos, work to decolonize veganism, and shed myths about soul food.
02.05.2020 Zaitoun: Yasmin Kahn \| Ep. 40 Part cookbook, part travelogue, and part investigative journalism, Yasmin Khan’s “Zaitoun: Recipes from the Palestinian Kitchen” takes us through the joy and the struggle of eating in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
12.23.2019 Son of a Southern Chef: Lazarus Lynch \| Ep. 39 What does it mean to cook with soul? Lazarus Lynch tells us as we dive into his cookbook “Son of a Southern Chef: Cook With Soul” and uncover the world he wants to create through his art.
11.25.2019 As Long as Grass Grows: Dina Gilio-Whitaker \| Ep. 38 Dina Gilio-Whitaker explores Native struggles for land, food, water, and sacred sites from colonization to Standing Rock—and what they mean for climate and environmental justice movements—in this important new book.
10.30.2019 Red Meat Republic: Joshua Specht \| Ep. 37 Joshua Specht takes a hard look at the cattle industry in the US in "Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Shaped America." This isn’t a book about what you should or shouldn’t eat: it's a book about ...
09.19.2019 Life on the Other Border: Teresa M. Mares \| Ep. 36 Teresa Mares’ new book 'Life on the Other Border: Farmworkers and Food Justice in Vermont' tells the story of food insecurity and fear experienced by the workers who sustain the dairy industry on the Vermont-Canada border—and how they are practicing ...
08.21.2019 The Dreamt Land: Mark Arax \| Ep. 35 The rich story, and steep cost, of how California’s arid Central Valley became an agricultural powerhouse and what that means for farmers, rural communities, and our food supply as we face the climate crisis.
07.21.2019 Eating Tomorrow: Timothy A. Wise \| Ep. 34 With finite resources, a growing population, and a changing climate, how do we feed the world? With research conducted on three continents, Tim Wise shows how small farmers around the world—those who already grow most of the world’s food—are our ...
06.19.2019 Food Fight!: Paloma Martinez-Cruz \| Ep. 33 From “culinary brownface” to the “fetishization of the agricultural other,” this collection of hard-hitting essays from Paloma Martinez-Cruz takes a look at mestizaje identity in the United States through the lens of food.
05.15.2019 Diet for a Hot Planet: Anna Lappé \| Ep. 32 Real Food Media founder and former Real Food Reads host Anna Lappé joins us to talk about how our food system drives the climate crisis, how food must be part of the solution, and how this conversation has evolved in ...
04.16.2019 Seeds of Resistance: Mark Schapiro feat. Kristyn Leach of Namu Farm \| Ep. 31 Seeds have stories to tell. In the face of climate change, corporate consolidation, and decreasing biodiversity, their stories are increasingly important for us to hear. Tune into this special conversation with Kristyn Leach, farmer and seed saver, and Mark Schapiro, ...
04.02.2019 The Farm Bill: Daniel Imhoff \| Ep. 30 At nearly 1,000 pages, the Farm Bill is difficult to understand for policymakers, let alone the rest of us. Dan Imhoff walks us through this vitally important legislation, and what it means for farmers, our health, and the planet.
02.19.2019 Freedom Farmers: Monica White \| Ep. 29 Agriculture has often been seen as a site of oppression in Black history, but it is so much more than that. Dr. Monica White shares a different narrative of Black farmers, and agriculture, in the US—one of resistance, innovation, and ...
01.16.2019 Eating NAFTA: Alyshia Gálvez \| Ep. 28 Foodies and celebrity chefs celebrate authentic Mexican foods like heirloom corn tortillas traditionally grown and prepared by peasant farmers. But thanks to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), in Mexico this cuisine is being replaced by processed food and ...
12.11.2018 Unsavory Truth: Marion Nestle \| Ep. 27 Chocolate is good for you? Bacon is best? Pomegranate juice will prolong your life? The expert who literally wrote the book on food politics (Food Politics, 2002) turns her eye to the unsavory story of food industry-backed nutrition research. Recorded ...
11.02.2018 Farming While Black: Leah Penniman \| Ep. 26 In 1910, 14 percent of farmland in the United States was owned by black families. Less than a century later, that number has fallen to less than 1 percent. “This was no accident,” writes this month’s Real Food Reads’ author, ...
10.02.2018 The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen: Sean Sherman \| Ep. 25 Chef Sean Sherman tantalizes our palettes—and our minds—with this cookbook bringing to life the foods indigenous to Turtle Island.
09.05.2018 Braiding Sweetgrass: Robin Wall Kimmerer \| Ep. 24 Weaving indigenous wisdom and ecological science, Kimmerer explores the nature of nature and its spirit of abundance.
08.01.2018 Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix: June Jo Lee \| Ep. 23 A conversation with children’s book publisher and author, June Jo Lee — with special guest host Anna’s 9-year old daughter — that will leave you wanting to cook dumplings and devour awesome sauce with kids.
06.27.2018 Decolonize Your Diet: Luz Calvo and Catriona R. Esquibel \| Ep. 22 Partners in work and life, Luz Calvo and Catriona Esquibel inspire us to rethink nourishment and what’s on our plate.
05.09.2018 A Precautionary Tale: Philip Ackerman-Leist \| Ep. 21 In this David and Goliath story, we hear how the small town of Mals, Italy organized their community against Big Ag to win the fight against pesticides.
04.04.2018 Green Enough: Leah Segedie \| Ep.20 Green Enough: Leah Segedie \| Ep.20 by Real Food Media
03.05.2018 Beginning to End Hunger: M. Jahi Chappell \| Ep. 19 What if I told you there was a way to end hunger or, at least, begin to end hunger? One city in the heart of Brazil has answers to just that question and Dr. Jahi Chappell dives into this story: ...
02.06.2018 Behind the Kitchen Door: Saru Jayaraman \| Ep. 18 Behind the Kitchen Door: Saru Jayaraman \| Ep. 18 by Real Food Media
01.09.2018 A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: Raj Patel \| Ep. 17 Author of Stuffed and Starved, Raj Patel, turns his sights to the history of the world. Seriously. It's a grand scope, fascinating read, and powerful analysis to help us all understand what we eat today and what it's true price ...
12.07.2017 The New Food Activism: Alison Alkon, Tanya Kerssen, & Joann Lo \| Ep. 16 The New Food Activism: Alison Alkon, Tanya Kerssen, & Joann Lo \| Ep. 16 by Real Food Media
11.02.2017 The Big Letdown: Kimberly Seals Allers \| Ep. 15 A fascinating read on the politics of breastfeeding and a recipe for the changes needed to support all mothers who want to breastfeed.
10.02.2017 Whitewash: Carey Gillam \| Ep. 14 Veteran investigative journalist Carey Gillam’s truth-seeking tome about a ubiquitous weed killer, troubling corporate spin, and worrisome toxicology.
09.05.2017 Big Chicken: Maryn McKenna \| Ep. 13 What does your chicken nugget have to do with the globe-spanning crisis of antibiotic resistant bacteria? Maryn McKenna tells all.
08.01.2017 Big Hunger: Andy Fisher \| Ep. 12 Every year, billions are spent “fighting hunger,” but what about organizing to end it? Fisher takes you down the rabbit hole of the hunger industrial complex.
06.29.2017 Sugar Detox Me: Summer Rayne Oakes \| Ep. 11 Learn how delicious recipes and easy-to-follow meal planning tips make kicking the sugar habit easier than ever with activist, environmentalist Summer Rayne Oakes.
06.01.2017 Letters To A Young Farmer: Jill Isenbarger \| Ep. 10 Love letters to farmers from some of the nation’s most influential writers, leaders and farmers.
05.16.2017 Chasing The Harvest: Gabriel Thompson \| Ep. 9 From sheepherders to berry pickers, California’s 800,000 farmworkers are the hidden heart of the state’s booming agriculture industry. These are their stories.
04.13.2017 The Case Against Sugar: Gary Taubes \| Ep. 8 Watch out, sugar, there’s a new sheriff in town. Gary Taubes makes the case against this ubiquitous ingredient.
03.28.2017 Changing Season: Mas & Nikiko Masumoto \| Ep. 7 Father-daughter peach harvesting dynamos write about family, farming, identity and history.

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07.21.2021 Black Food Matters: Dr. Ashanté M. Reese \| Ep. 50 “Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice” centers the Black experience within the US food system: what is missing and what is possible. Edited by Dr. Ashanté M. Reese and Hanna Garth, this anthology features voices ...
06.17.2021 Building Community Food Webs: Ken Meter \| Ep. 49 Ken Meter is one of the most experienced food system analysts in the United States. He's promoted local food economies in 143 regions in 41 states, two provinces, and four tribal nations. In Building Community Food Webs, he makes a ...
05.26.2021 Foodtopias \| Ep 5: Abolishing Exploitation & Prison Slavery in College Food Meet: the Food Justice League. No, they’re not superheroes. They’re a growing community-based movement based in Gainesville, FL, that’s working to abolish exploitation and prison slavery from the food system. They’ve launched a public campaign to pressure the University of ...
05.03.2021 Traveling with Sugar: Amy Moran-Thomas \| Ep. 48 Like many Caribbean and Central American nations, Belize is a place where healthy, diverse farming systems have been violently replaced with sugar plantations. The legacy of that dispossession is yet another sugar-related violence: diabetes. Cultural anthropologist Amy Moran-Thomas contextualizes diabetes ...
03.15.2021 The Monsanto Papers: Carey Gillam \| Ep. 47 Carey Gillam’s 2017 book, Whitewash, exposed the dangers of the world’s most popular weedkiller: Monsanto’s Roundup. Gillam’s new book, The Monsanto Papers, tells the riveting story of the man who became the face of a David-and-Goliath showdown against one of ...
12.21.2020 Foodtopias \| Ep 4: Making Space for BIPOC Farmers Allinee ‘shiny’ Flanary—founder of Come Thru Market, a Black, Indigenous, and People of Color(BIPOC) producer farmer’s market in Portland, OR—joins us for the season finale of Foodtopias to talk about the origins of the market, what it looks like to ...
12.10.2020 Perilous Bounty: Tom Philpott \| Ep. 46 A veteran journalist and former farmer, Tom Philpott cracks open US agriculture—and where it went horribly wrong. Highlighting scientists documenting the damage and the farmers and activists pushing back, Perilous Bounty is a must-read for eaters and activists alike. This ...
11.23.2020 Foodtopias \| Ep. 3: Peasant Women Feed the World The global peasant leader and food sovereignty activist Elizabeth Mpofu speaks to us about growing up in a farming family in Zimbabwe, practicing climate resilient agriculture, and how rural women are impacted by Covid-19. Mpofu is General Coordinator of the ...
10.12.2020 Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States: Devon Mihesuah \| Ep. 45 Centuries of colonization have disrupted Indigenous communities’ ability to control their own food systems. But throughout the United States, projects are underway to reclaim and protect the land, water, plants, animals, and food & farming practices that underpin Indigenous self-determination ...
09.30.2020 Bite Back: Jose Oliva \| Ep. 44 Long-time Real Food Media friend and ally Jose Oliva joins us to talk about his co-authored chapter, “Food Workers versus Food Giants.” In this dynamic conversation, we cover the food system’s legacy of slavery, corporate consolidation, unions, and the strategies ...
09.24.2020 Foodtopias \| Ep. 2: Black Agrarian Resistance in Jackson Dr. Cindy Ayers, head farmer and CEO of Footprint Farms in Jackson, MS, is carrying on a long legacy of activism and farming. Descended from Civil Rights veterans and sharecroppers, her 68-acre farm is a hub for learning and support, ...
09.23.2020 Foodtopias \| Ep. 1: Laboring in a Pandemic For the debut episode of Foodtopias, we speak with labor organizers Axel Fuentes (Rural Community Workers Alliance) and Christina Spach (Food Chain Workers Alliance) about working conditions in the meat processing industry pre-Covid and during the pandemic, and the worker-led ...
09.21.2020 Foodtopias \| Trailer Our newest podcast series, Foodtopias, showcases the stories and strategies of workers, farmers, healers, ecologists, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color), womxn, and community organizers who are growing food & cultivating utopia. The inspiration we need for building a ...
06.24.2020 The New American Farmer: Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern \| Ep. 43 In her new book, Minkoff-Zern argues that farmworkers have the skills and the knowledge to lead the sustainable farming movement, if given the opportunity. The book shares powerful stories of farmworkers who have successfully transitioned to owning and operating their ...
05.20.2020 The Labor of Lunch: Jennifer Gaddis \| Ep. 42 Jennifer Gaddis takes us into the world of school lunch—and it’s not pretty: unhealthy food and exploited cafeteria workers abound. But all that can change if we organize together to make fair and healthy school food a reality for all ...
03.24.2020 Vegetable Kingdom: Bryant Terry \| Ep. 41 Bryant Terry's stunning collection of recipes is a celebration of vegetables and flavors from the African and Asian diaspora. This episode explores his ethos, work to decolonize veganism, and shed myths about soul food.
02.05.2020 Zaitoun: Yasmin Kahn \| Ep. 40 Part cookbook, part travelogue, and part investigative journalism, Yasmin Khan’s “Zaitoun: Recipes from the Palestinian Kitchen” takes us through the joy and the struggle of eating in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
12.23.2019 Son of a Southern Chef: Lazarus Lynch \| Ep. 39 What does it mean to cook with soul? Lazarus Lynch tells us as we dive into his cookbook “Son of a Southern Chef: Cook With Soul” and uncover the world he wants to create through his art.
11.25.2019 As Long as Grass Grows: Dina Gilio-Whitaker \| Ep. 38 Dina Gilio-Whitaker explores Native struggles for land, food, water, and sacred sites from colonization to Standing Rock—and what they mean for climate and environmental justice movements—in this important new book.
10.30.2019 Red Meat Republic: Joshua Specht \| Ep. 37 Joshua Specht takes a hard look at the cattle industry in the US in "Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Shaped America." This isn’t a book about what you should or shouldn’t eat: it's a book about ...
09.19.2019 Life on the Other Border: Teresa M. Mares \| Ep. 36 Teresa Mares’ new book 'Life on the Other Border: Farmworkers and Food Justice in Vermont' tells the story of food insecurity and fear experienced by the workers who sustain the dairy industry on the Vermont-Canada border—and how they are practicing ...
08.21.2019 The Dreamt Land: Mark Arax \| Ep. 35 The rich story, and steep cost, of how California’s arid Central Valley became an agricultural powerhouse and what that means for farmers, rural communities, and our food supply as we face the climate crisis.
07.21.2019 Eating Tomorrow: Timothy A. Wise \| Ep. 34 With finite resources, a growing population, and a changing climate, how do we feed the world? With research conducted on three continents, Tim Wise shows how small farmers around the world—those who already grow most of the world’s food—are our ...
06.19.2019 Food Fight!: Paloma Martinez-Cruz \| Ep. 33 From “culinary brownface” to the “fetishization of the agricultural other,” this collection of hard-hitting essays from Paloma Martinez-Cruz takes a look at mestizaje identity in the United States through the lens of food.
05.15.2019 Diet for a Hot Planet: Anna Lappé \| Ep. 32 Real Food Media founder and former Real Food Reads host Anna Lappé joins us to talk about how our food system drives the climate crisis, how food must be part of the solution, and how this conversation has evolved in ...
04.16.2019 Seeds of Resistance: Mark Schapiro feat. Kristyn Leach of Namu Farm \| Ep. 31 Seeds have stories to tell. In the face of climate change, corporate consolidation, and decreasing biodiversity, their stories are increasingly important for us to hear. Tune into this special conversation with Kristyn Leach, farmer and seed saver, and Mark Schapiro, ...
04.02.2019 The Farm Bill: Daniel Imhoff \| Ep. 30 At nearly 1,000 pages, the Farm Bill is difficult to understand for policymakers, let alone the rest of us. Dan Imhoff walks us through this vitally important legislation, and what it means for farmers, our health, and the planet.
02.19.2019 Freedom Farmers: Monica White \| Ep. 29 Agriculture has often been seen as a site of oppression in Black history, but it is so much more than that. Dr. Monica White shares a different narrative of Black farmers, and agriculture, in the US—one of resistance, innovation, and ...
01.16.2019 Eating NAFTA: Alyshia Gálvez \| Ep. 28 Foodies and celebrity chefs celebrate authentic Mexican foods like heirloom corn tortillas traditionally grown and prepared by peasant farmers. But thanks to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), in Mexico this cuisine is being replaced by processed food and ...
12.11.2018 Unsavory Truth: Marion Nestle \| Ep. 27 Chocolate is good for you? Bacon is best? Pomegranate juice will prolong your life? The expert who literally wrote the book on food politics (Food Politics, 2002) turns her eye to the unsavory story of food industry-backed nutrition research. Recorded ...
11.02.2018 Farming While Black: Leah Penniman \| Ep. 26 In 1910, 14 percent of farmland in the United States was owned by black families. Less than a century later, that number has fallen to less than 1 percent. “This was no accident,” writes this month’s Real Food Reads’ author, ...
10.02.2018 The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen: Sean Sherman \| Ep. 25 Chef Sean Sherman tantalizes our palettes—and our minds—with this cookbook bringing to life the foods indigenous to Turtle Island.
09.05.2018 Braiding Sweetgrass: Robin Wall Kimmerer \| Ep. 24 Weaving indigenous wisdom and ecological science, Kimmerer explores the nature of nature and its spirit of abundance.
08.01.2018 Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix: June Jo Lee \| Ep. 23 A conversation with children’s book publisher and author, June Jo Lee — with special guest host Anna’s 9-year old daughter — that will leave you wanting to cook dumplings and devour awesome sauce with kids.
06.27.2018 Decolonize Your Diet: Luz Calvo and Catriona R. Esquibel \| Ep. 22 Partners in work and life, Luz Calvo and Catriona Esquibel inspire us to rethink nourishment and what’s on our plate.
05.09.2018 A Precautionary Tale: Philip Ackerman-Leist \| Ep. 21 In this David and Goliath story, we hear how the small town of Mals, Italy organized their community against Big Ag to win the fight against pesticides.
04.04.2018 Green Enough: Leah Segedie \| Ep.20 Green Enough: Leah Segedie \| Ep.20 by Real Food Media
03.05.2018 Beginning to End Hunger: M. Jahi Chappell \| Ep. 19 What if I told you there was a way to end hunger or, at least, begin to end hunger? One city in the heart of Brazil has answers to just that question and Dr. Jahi Chappell dives into this story: ...
02.06.2018 Behind the Kitchen Door: Saru Jayaraman \| Ep. 18 Behind the Kitchen Door: Saru Jayaraman \| Ep. 18 by Real Food Media
01.09.2018 A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: Raj Patel \| Ep. 17 Author of Stuffed and Starved, Raj Patel, turns his sights to the history of the world. Seriously. It's a grand scope, fascinating read, and powerful analysis to help us all understand what we eat today and what it's true price ...
12.07.2017 The New Food Activism: Alison Alkon, Tanya Kerssen, & Joann Lo \| Ep. 16 The New Food Activism: Alison Alkon, Tanya Kerssen, & Joann Lo \| Ep. 16 by Real Food Media
11.02.2017 The Big Letdown: Kimberly Seals Allers \| Ep. 15 A fascinating read on the politics of breastfeeding and a recipe for the changes needed to support all mothers who want to breastfeed.
10.02.2017 Whitewash: Carey Gillam \| Ep. 14 Veteran investigative journalist Carey Gillam’s truth-seeking tome about a ubiquitous weed killer, troubling corporate spin, and worrisome toxicology.
09.05.2017 Big Chicken: Maryn McKenna \| Ep. 13 What does your chicken nugget have to do with the globe-spanning crisis of antibiotic resistant bacteria? Maryn McKenna tells all.
08.01.2017 Big Hunger: Andy Fisher \| Ep. 12 Every year, billions are spent “fighting hunger,” but what about organizing to end it? Fisher takes you down the rabbit hole of the hunger industrial complex.
06.29.2017 Sugar Detox Me: Summer Rayne Oakes \| Ep. 11 Learn how delicious recipes and easy-to-follow meal planning tips make kicking the sugar habit easier than ever with activist, environmentalist Summer Rayne Oakes.
06.01.2017 Letters To A Young Farmer: Jill Isenbarger \| Ep. 10 Love letters to farmers from some of the nation’s most influential writers, leaders and farmers.
05.16.2017 Chasing The Harvest: Gabriel Thompson \| Ep. 9 From sheepherders to berry pickers, California’s 800,000 farmworkers are the hidden heart of the state’s booming agriculture industry. These are their stories.
04.13.2017 The Case Against Sugar: Gary Taubes \| Ep. 8 Watch out, sugar, there’s a new sheriff in town. Gary Taubes makes the case against this ubiquitous ingredient.
03.28.2017 Changing Season: Mas & Nikiko Masumoto \| Ep. 7 Father-daughter peach harvesting dynamos write about family, farming, identity and history.

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Real Food Media episodes:

Black Food Matters: Dr. Ashanté M. Reese | Ep. 50

Building Community Food Webs: Ken Meter | Ep. 49

Foodtopias | Ep 5: Abolishing Exploitation & Prison Slavery in College Food

Traveling with Sugar: Amy Moran-Thomas | Ep. 48

The Monsanto Papers: Carey Gillam | Ep. 47

Foodtopias | Ep 4: Making Space for BIPOC Farmers

Perilous Bounty: Tom Philpott | Ep. 46

Foodtopias | Ep. 3: Peasant Women Feed the World

Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States: Devon Mihesuah | Ep. 45

Bite Back: Jose Oliva | Ep. 44

Foodtopias | Ep. 2: Black Agrarian Resistance in Jackson

Foodtopias | Ep. 1: Laboring in a Pandemic

Foodtopias | Trailer

The New American Farmer: Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern | Ep. 43

The Labor of Lunch: Jennifer Gaddis | Ep. 42

Vegetable Kingdom: Bryant Terry | Ep. 41

Zaitoun: Yasmin Kahn | Ep. 40

Son of a Southern Chef: Lazarus Lynch | Ep. 39

As Long as Grass Grows: Dina Gilio-Whitaker | Ep. 38

Red Meat Republic: Joshua Specht | Ep. 37

Life on the Other Border: Teresa M. Mares | Ep. 36

The Dreamt Land: Mark Arax | Ep. 35

Eating Tomorrow: Timothy A. Wise | Ep. 34

Food Fight!: Paloma Martinez-Cruz | Ep. 33

Diet for a Hot Planet: Anna Lappé | Ep. 32

Seeds of Resistance: Mark Schapiro feat. Kristyn Leach of Namu Farm | Ep. 31

The Farm Bill: Daniel Imhoff | Ep. 30

Freedom Farmers: Monica White | Ep. 29

Eating NAFTA: Alyshia Gálvez | Ep. 28

Unsavory Truth: Marion Nestle | Ep. 27

Farming While Black: Leah Penniman | Ep. 26

The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen: Sean Sherman | Ep. 25

Braiding Sweetgrass: Robin Wall Kimmerer | Ep. 24

Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix: June Jo Lee | Ep. 23

Decolonize Your Diet: Luz Calvo and Catriona R. Esquibel | Ep. 22

A Precautionary Tale: Philip Ackerman-Leist | Ep. 21

Green Enough: Leah Segedie | Ep.20

Beginning to End Hunger: M. Jahi Chappell | Ep. 19

Behind the Kitchen Door: Saru Jayaraman | Ep. 18

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: Raj Patel | Ep. 17

The New Food Activism: Alison Alkon, Tanya Kerssen, & Joann Lo | Ep. 16

The Big Letdown: Kimberly Seals Allers | Ep. 15

Whitewash: Carey Gillam | Ep. 14

Big Chicken: Maryn McKenna | Ep. 13

Big Hunger: Andy Fisher | Ep. 12

Sugar Detox Me: Summer Rayne Oakes | Ep. 11

Letters To A Young Farmer: Jill Isenbarger | Ep. 10

Chasing The Harvest: Gabriel Thompson | Ep. 9

The Case Against Sugar: Gary Taubes | Ep. 8

Changing Season: Mas & Nikiko Masumoto | Ep. 7

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