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The Local Food Report episodes

October 15 Food as Medicine
Experts estimate food-related deaths and illness cost the economy about one and a half trillion dollars a year. That's like a second defense budget, and then some.
5 min
October 08 A glossary of the winter squashes on Cape Cod
Winter squash is everywhere these days. I find it in my soup and folded into pies, it’s hidden in the guise of muffins and sweetbreads.
5 min
October 01 Farmers, gardeners, and landscapers adapt as our climate changes
This summer, farmer Dave Dewitt of Truro told me he’s growing something I’ve always thought of as a southern crop — okra.
5 min
September 24 Scup as sashimi
Texture-wise, the fish was phenomenal. There was no “fishiness” at all. It had a delicate sweetness, like what you get at a sushi restaurant. It left a little aftertaste of ocean brine, like you walked into a seafood shop.
5 min
September 17 Preserving figs in a year of abundance
What to do when you get too many figs at once.
5 min
September 10 Tips for beginning mushroom hunters from a Wellfleet enthusiast
Looking for fungi with Alex Emmons.
5 min
September 03 One delicious crab
This week on the Local Food Report: it’s a duel of appetites in a new documentary about delicious but destructive green crabs.
5 min
August 27 Eating wild black cherries, pits and all
There must be some good way to eat them, I started thinking, because historically people have always tended to use what’s available, and for centuries, wild black cherries have been both abundant and incredibly important here ecologically.
5 min
August 20 The underappreciated Cornelian cherry
I have a friend in Barnstable who’s always telling me about unusual edible plants, particularly perennials. Recently, he told me he’s planting something new called a Cornelian Cherry.
5 min
August 20 The underappreciated Cornelian cherry
I have a friend in Barnstable who’s always telling me about unusual edible plants, particularly perennials. Recently, he told me he’s planting something new called a Cornelian Cherry.
5 min

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The Local Food Report takes us to the heart of the local food movement to talk with growers, harvesters, processors, cooks, policymakers and visionaries. The world of food is changing, fast. As people…