Liz and Dee Lavigne discuss the problems of small businesses in this time of pandemic closures. Dee is the owner of Dee-lightful Cupcakes, a business that makes to order beautifully decorated cupcakes and cakes, as well as delivering fruit bouquets. Dee has to weigh her health, and the health of her family and workers, and clients, in deciding when to re-open and how to operate in a safe manner. They discuss the responsibilities that are incumbent upon each business owner. And they try to project the future of the food industry.

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Liz interviews Daniela Savone, a former Top Chef contestant, and a chef dedicated to her Italian roots. They discuss cooking at home during the pandemic, the differences and similarities in Southern and Italian food, making pasta at home, and making mozzarella.

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Liz chats with Ann Maloney, Food Editor of the Washington Post about social distancing, comfort baking, and being at home.  They discuss the impact on the food system, farms, and on restaurants, and talk about the joys of cooking at home.

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Liz explores the concept of what food communicates with Ashli Stokes of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Wendy Atkins-Sayre of the University of Memphis. The conversation took place at the Natchez Literary and Film Celebration.

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Liz talks with Dr. Megan Kassabaum, anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. They discuss natural history museums and the old-fashioned tendency to explore food as a basic need in its presentation of early people, but then ignores food and food culture as those people become more agricultural, and the tendency to forget that early people had rich and complex cultures and did more than search for food and eat.

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Recorded on February 25, 2020 at the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture conference, Liz and Dr. Newton explore several issues affecting ag policy.  They also, interestingly, begin to talk about the impact to sales of agricultural products to China the corona virus would have.  This was just about 10 days before the virus exploded on the US scene.

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Liz talks to Adrian Miller, James Beard Award winning author of Soul Food as well as The President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas. They talk about his new research into African Americans and barbecue, as well as a wide range of issues.

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Liz Williams visits with Rudy Arredondo, President of the National Latino Farmers and Ranchers Trade Association, talking about everything from Cesar Chavez to Latino Farmers growing hemp.

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Liz Williams interviews Cheyenne Edmundson at the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture in February, 2020. They talk about bee colony collapse, genetically modified agriculture, water shortages and using farmers as ambassadors to Congress.

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