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- Episode 63: Juneteenth Features: Forty Acres Fresh Market
Episode #63 Notes
0:35 - First off, how did you become a Rocket Scientist?
3:45 - How did your science background influence your interest in BBQ?
7:15 - How and why is the BBQ is such a strong cultural tradition in the black community?
9:30 - On BBQ in Virginia and the birth of BBQ.
15:00 - On Southern Food and how it’s essentially black and indigenous in origin.
18:00 - Authentic BBQ and the techniques used.
20:30 - On the diasporic spread of BBQ techniques.
28:00 - What is the difference between a Chef, a Cook, and a Pitmaster?
33:00 - How does mainstream media white-wash BBQ culture?
45:30 - On the displacement of black communities and how this ties to BBQ.
49:15 - Why is BBQ a quintessential American food?
1:00:00 - Book recommendations!
Black Hand in the Pit - Howard Conyers (to be released)
The Half Has Never Been Told - Edward Baptist
The Millionaire Next Door - Thomas Stanley and William Danko
For Freedom’s Sake - Chana Lee
Dispossessions - Pete Daniel
The Color of Law - Richard Rothstein
The Devil You Know - Charles Blow
The 4-Hour Work Week, Tim Ferriss
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50 min - Episode 62: Juneteenth Features: Dr. Howard Conyers on The Black History of BBQ
Episode #62 Notes
0:35 - First off, how did you become a Rocket Scientist?
3:45 - How did your science background influence your interest in BBQ?
7:15 - How and why is the BBQ is such a strong cultural tradition in the black community?
9:30 - On BBQ in Virginia and the birth of BBQ.
15:00 - On Southern Food and how it’s essentially black and indigenous in origin.
18:00 - Authentic BBQ and the techniques used.
20:30 - On the diasporic spread of BBQ techniques.
28:00 - What is the difference between a Chef, a Cook, and a Pitmaster?
33:00 - How does mainstream media white-wash BBQ culture?
45:30 - On the displacement of black communities and how this ties to BBQ.
49:15 - Why is BBQ a quintessential American food?
1:00:00 - Book recommendations!
Black Hand in the Pit - Howard Conyers (to be released)
The Half Has Never Been Told - Edward Baptist
The Millionaire Next Door - Thomas Stanley and William Danko
For Freedom’s Sake - Chana Lee
Dispossessions - Pete Daniel
The Color of Law - Richard Rothstein
The Devil You Know - Charles Blow
The 4-Hour Work Week, Tim Ferriss
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1 hr 14 min - Episode 61: Grocery Update: Food Processing, Gig Workers and GMO Labeling
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38 min - Episode 60: Why Juiceland Workers Went On Strike
Episode #60 Notes
1:00 - What were some of the issues and conditions that resulted in this strike?
7:00 - On sexual harassment and racial bias in the workplace.
14:15 - On protecting employees from customer harassment.
19:00 - Pay disparities
25:00 - What were the immediate demands when you went on strike?
31:00 - How did the strike spread from the production centers to the retail stores?
33:15 - Negotiating with Juiceland management.
41:00 - What’s the current status of the strike?
47:00 - What can listeners do to support your efforts?
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58 min - Episode 59: Grocery Update- Cultivated Meat, the Wage Shortage and Retail Automation
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1 hr 9 min - Episode 58: Esther West on The Promise and Potential of Worker Cooperatives
Episode #58 Notes
1:00 - Esther West, open mic on Latinx coop growth in the US.
Books and Resources
LatinX Coop Power in the US, UW Center for Coops
Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard
Democracy at Work Institute
Sustainable Economies Law Center
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45 min - Episode 57: Professor Gabriel Rosenberg
Episode #57 Notes
1:00 - How did you get interested in food systems research?
6:15 - What were the conditions of homesteaders and settlers in the frontier in the 19th century?
10:15 - On the myth of the idyllic small family farm.
18:30 - How 4H social engineered of the rural frontier.
28:30 - On how 4H deepened racial divides and inequities.
35:00 - On 4H and the history of eugenics.
44:15 - How to overcome the myth of the ‘independent farmer’ and iconism.
49:00 - How to create a just, fair, resilient food system.
53:30 - Book recommendations!
Capitalism and the Web of Life - Jason Moore
Porkopolis - Alex Blanchette
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57 min - Episode 56: Ligia Guallpa of Worker’s Justice Project
Episode #56 Notes
0:30- How did Worker’s Justice Project come about?
1:45 - What needs does WJP meet for the community?
3:00 - How are decisions made in your organization?
5:30 - What’s it’s been like to be an essential worker during COVID-19? Construction, home healthcare, etc.
9:15 - What are some of the campaigns WJP has worked on?
17:30 - HEROES Act and the Fund for Excluded Workers projects.
22:00 - What are the strategic program areas of WJP?
25:00 - US immigration policies effects on people’s lives and livelihoods.
29:00 - What changes are required in the food system to make things better for essential workers?
32:30 - What is the future of WJP and your members?
34:15 - How to support WJP and closing thoughts.
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38 min - Episode 55: Alicia Kennedy
Episode #55 Notes
1:00 - How did you get interested in food journalism?
3:30 - On writing style.
4:45 - Recipe development and food journalism.
6:30 - On the future of the veggie burger.
11:30 - On vegan cheese and category reinvention.
17:30 - Silicon Valley’s approach to alternative meat development.
21:00 - Is there such a thing as sustainable beef?
26:00 - On American meat consumption and rational goals.
28:20 - On the intersection of gender, race, meat, and COVID.
31:30 - Food activists in Puerto Rico.
38:10 - What’s wrong with resilience?
46:00 - Book recommendations!
Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency - Andreas Malm
How To Blowup a Pipeline - Andreas Malm
The Gentrification of the Mind - Sarah Schulman
Let The Record Show - Sarah Schulman
Conflict Is Not Abuse - Sarah Schulman
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50 min - Episode 54: Margaret Smith, The Common Market Texas
Episode #54 Notes
1:00 - How did The Common Market get started?
3:00 - Common Market business model.
3:50 - Working with foundations.
5:00 - Common Market stakeholders.
8:00 - On working with farmers and suppliers.
11:30 - On expanding CM to Georgia and Texas.
19:00 - On Houston hip hop
20:45 - COVID’s impact on CM’s operating model.
30:00 - On sourcing locally in Texas, which is highly seasonal.
35:00 - On a fair and just food system.
36:30 - Book recommendations!
Taste of Country Cooking, Edna Lewis
Parable of The Sower, Octavia Butler
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About The Checkout: Grocery Nerds
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Formerly The Checkout, Grocery Nerds is the leading source for insider commentary and analysis on the $1.1 trillion U.S. grocery industry. Founded by 30 year industry veteran operator,…
analyst and O.G. Grocery Nerd Errol Schweizer, Grocery Nerds has four priorities: to demystify the grocery business, including pricing, market segmentation and business operations in the real world-not via academia or public relations B.S.; to platform and hear from essential, front-line grocery workers; to engage with emerging brand innovators and trend leaders; and to hear from independent and cooperative grocery operators on how they are surviving and thriving in this competitive, complex and cutthroat industry. So, are you a Grocery Nerd too?