The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

Knowing every country needs more farmland to feed the future, financial speculators are buying up farmland. And so farmers who once owned farmland now must rent. This leads us to ask, Can farmers who rent sustain farmland for the future? Topic include

Sometimes we simply must break the pattern– go someplace different and do something different. And so we travel to the Tuscany to establish a vineyard. Topics include why the Tuscany is attractively "human-scaled;" how starting a vineya

While listening to a Shipibo shaman lecture on the efficacy of herbs along the headwaters of the Amazon, an ant bit into my index finger. Looking down from the vine I had been leaning against, the ant said… Topics include why anthropologists like

Topics include why we city dwellers agreed to become ignorant about the foods we eat; what consequences we face by maintaining this ignorance; and whether we should, or should not, learn the story of our food. Guests: Ann Vileisis, Author, Kitchen Lit

We now live in a world where everything costs much more today than it did yesterday. This leads us to ask,

Government is now restricting what we may eat, but is leaving us free to glop 10,500 chemicals on to make our skin look good. This leads us to ask…

Topics include the Mexican tradition of making tequila and mezcal; how the making of tequila and mezcal was industrialized; and the resurgent market for traditional small batch tequilas and mezcals. Guest: Chantal Martineau, author of How The Gringos

Birds do it. Bees do it. Even the flowers and the trees do it. But given how smart we think we are, why did it take us 14,000 years to realize plants actually do it. That we now know plants do it, we wonder, Do plants enjoy sex? Topic include a histo

Topics include the trends of eating out and eating in; the ingredients required to cook up a successful food service business; and ways to construct a food service business so diner and server both win the dollars. Guest:Tom Bruce, Consultant, Central

For the fourth time in 15 years, USDA has confessed to practicing institutional racism and sexism. This serial discrimination, for which taxpayers must pay $5 Billion and more, leads us to ask…