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Delicious Revolution
by Devon Sampson
Delicious Revolution is a show about food, culture, and place. We talk with people whose expertise in food comes from working with food as farmers, fishers, artists, cooks, activists, scholars, journalists, and more. They spend a large portion of their life thinking about food- what it means, how to make it, how to change the food system, how it ties together societies. We will bring you in-depth conversations with some of the brilliant people that inspire the ways we think about food. Find us online at deliciousrevolutionshow.com Chelsea Wills and Devon Sampson produce Delicious Revolution.
Episodes
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54 Niaz Dorry on organizing for land food and sea food, and organizing at the speed of trust
Niaz Dorry moved to Glauster, Massachusetts, the oldest settled fishing port in the United States, in 1994, and she has been working with small-scale, traditional, and indigenous fishing communities in the U.S. and around the globe ever since. After a working as an environmental justice organizer...
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53 Janaki Jagannath on an ecological approach to environmental justice in the San Joaquin Valley
Janaki Jagannath is the former Coordinator at the Community Alliance for Agroecology, a coalition of community-based organizations in the San Joaquin Valley of California that work to advance agricultural and environmental policy towards justice for communities bearing the burden of California’s...
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52 M. Jahi Chappell on Beginning to End Hunger
M. Jahi Chappell is a political agroecologist with training in ecology and evolutionary biology, science and technology studies, and chemical engineering. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) at Coventry University, and a Fellow of Food...
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#51 Elizabeth Mpofu of La Via Campesina on peasant leadership and a call to fight together
Elizabeth Mpofu is a the General Coordinator of La Via Campesina, a global coalition of more than 164 farmer organizations from 73 countries. She is also a small-scale farmer in Zimbabwe, the leader of the Zimbabwe Smallholder Farmers’ Forum, and an advisor to the United Nations Food and...
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Announcing Season 6: The Movement Builders
We're excited to announce season 6 of Delicious Revolution! Just about every one of the fifty episodes we’ve done so far touches on movement. Listening back to these recordings, I feel like I’m listening in on many lifetimes of experience building movements. I think it’s time to take on movement...
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#50 Sana Javeri Kadri on decolonization as a series of questions
#50 Sana Javeri Kadri on decolonization as a series of questions by Chelsea Wills and Devon Sampson Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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#49 Karla Diaz on cooking in prison and the migration of food traditions in and out of incarceration
Sana Javeri Kadri is a sometimes salty, permanently hungry, rather creative human. She was raised in post-colonial Bombay, wound up in the produce aisles of California and can be currently found @sanajaverikadri on Instagram or in person wherever there are vegetables to be found. She is also...
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#48 Ayhan Aydin on drawing on the richness of immigrant food traditions
Ayhan Aydin is a meal ecologist. His interdisciplinary practice consists of projects that consider art, science and food. He is interested in creating stories through meals and challenging the idea of what a meal is. As a cook, he likes to take ordinary food items and creates something unexpected...
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Severine von Tscharner Fleming on building a commons for the future of farming
Severine von Tscharner Fleming is a part-time farmer, activist, and organizer based in the Champlain Valley of New York. She is director of Greenhorns, a grassroots organization with the mission to recruit, promote and support the rising generation of new farmers in America. Severine has spent…
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#46 Kitazawa Seeds - Maya Shiroyama and Jim Ryugo on 100 years of selling Asian vegetable seeds
Maya Shiroyama and Jim Ryugo run Kitazawa Seeds, a 100-year-old seed distributor based in California that specializes in Asian vegetables. The company was started by Gijiu Kitazawa in 1917, serving mostly Japanese-American gardeners on the West Coast. It closed for four years when the United…
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#45 Sandor Katz on the relevance of food traditions, and migrating from the city to the country
#45 Sandor Katz on the relevance of food traditions, and migrating from the city to the country by Chelsea Wills and Devon Sampson Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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#44 The Peoples Kitchen Collective, from the farm to the kitchen to the table to the street
The People's Kitchen Collective (PKC) works at the intersection of art and activism as a food-centered political education project and cooperative business. Based in Oakland, California, their creative practices reflect the diverse histories and background of collective members Sita Kuratomi...
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#43 Norma Listman on the meztizaje of food cultures in Mexico and California
Norma Listman is a Mexico City and Oakland-based chef and artist. Her practice is shaped by her heritage, and she is most interested in traditional cooking methods and the historical periods of Mexican gastronomy. Norma’s passion for the preservation of her culture and her father’s life-long work...
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DR Special #2 Peter Buckley on blackberries and the challenges and beauty of running a diverse farm
Peter Buckley is a blackberry grower, philanthropist, and co-owner of Front Porch Farm. Peter has had several careers— after closing his law practice in San Francisco, he moved to India to establish a buying agency, and later did the same in Argentina and Brazil. Later, unusual circumstances…
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#42 Dan Imhoff on making agriculture hospitable to wild nature
Dan Imhoff is an author, musician, and artisan food producer who has written for 25 years on ecological sustainability. His books include Farming with the Wild, Food Fight, and Building with Vision. Dan is the president and co-founder of Watershed Media as well as president and a co-founder of…
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#41 Aileen Suzara on decolonizing food traditions, and the power of food and food stories to heal
Aileen Suzara is a land-based educator, eco-advocate, and cook. She was born in Washington, raised mostly on the Big Island of Hawai’i, and is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her family spans the Philippines and North America, and these places define her. While she has spent years...
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#40 Suzi Grady of Petaluma Bounty on addressing the root causes of hunger
#40 Suzi Grady of Petaluma Bounty on addressing the root causes of hunger by Chelsea Wills and Devon Sampson Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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#39 Albert Straus on building an organic food system and revitalizing rural communities
Albert Straus is the founder and CEO of Straus Family Creamery and an advocate for organic dairy production, environmental stewardship, and family farms. He grew up on his family’s dairy farm on Tomales Bay, near Point Reyes National Park. He took over management of the farm in the 1970s, and…
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#38 Annie Somerville of Greens Restaurant on building relationships with farmers and workers
Annie Somerville is the Executive Chef of Greens Restaurant in San Francisco, an innovator of farm-to-table and vegetarian food since 1979. Greens is owned by the San Francisco Zen Center, buys much of their produce from the Zen Center’s Green Gulch farm, and has an exclusively vegetarian menu.…
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#37 Nikki Silvestri on soil as a carbon sink and point of engagement for new alliances
Nikki Silvestri is an advocate for climate solutions, heathy food systems, and social change. As the Co-Founder of Live Real and former Executive Director of People's Grocery and Green for All, Nikki has built and strengthened social equity for underrepresented populations in food systems, social...
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#36 Amy Franceschini on victory gardens in San Francisco and a Seed Journey to the Middle East
Amy Franceschini is an artist and educator who creates formats for exchange and production that question and challenge the social, cultural and environmental systems that surround her. An overarching theme in her work is a perceived conflict between humans and nature, and her projects reveal the...
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#35 Jezra Thompson on Berkeley’s School Gardens and Kitchens
Jezra Thompson is the Program Supervisor of the Berkeley Public School Gardening & Cooking Program, where she leads a team of garden educators and works with schools and community organizations to provide hands-on, place-based education to all students. She is a food system planner who focuses on...
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#34 Kristyn Leach of Namu Farm on finding roots and community through plants
Kristyn Leach runs Namu Farm at the Sunol AgPark east of the San Francisco Bay. She grows vegetables for San Francisco restaurant Namu Gaji and seeds for the Kitazawa Seed Company. Kristyn grows both traditional and whimsical produce, focusing on Korean varieties and using organic, biodynamic…
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#33 Fallen Fruit (Austin Young and David Burns)on planting public fruit parks around the world
Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work. Fallen Fruit began by mapping fruit trees growing on or over public property in Los Angeles. The collaboration…
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#32 Jim Cochran of Swanton Berry Farm on growing organic when everyone says it’s impossible
Inspired by the the United Farm Workers struggle for justice and an emerging environmental movement, Jim Cochran started Swanton Berry Farm in 1983 on four leased acres on the California coast. At the time, everyone said it was impossible to make a living growing organic strawberries, but after...
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#31 Ron Reed of the Karuk Tribe on re-discovering traditional knowledge
Ron Reed is a Karuk dipnet fisherman and a cultural biologist for the Karuk Tribe of California, where he develops plans for eco-cultural revitalization, leads youth cultural education camps, and fosters collaborative research at the nexus of traditional ecological knowledge and western science....
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DR Special #1: Kathleen of the Homeless Garden Project
DR Special #1: Kathleen of the Homeless Garden Project by Chelsea Wills and Devon Sampson Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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#30 Darrie Ganzhorn on the Homeless Garden Project
Darrie Ganzhorn is the executive director of the Homeless Garden Project, a 3-acre organic farm and garden in Santa Cruz, California where, as the mission statement reads, “people find the tools they need to build a home in the world.” The project provides job training, transitional employment…
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#29 Lexa Walsh on meals that bring people together across difference, creating temporary utopias
Lexa Walsh is a longtime artist and cultural worker based in the Bay Area. She has also lived, worked, exhibited and toured internationally. She founded the experimental music, performance and film venue the Heinz Afterworld Lounge, worked for many years as a curator and administrator at CESTA…
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#28 Jessica Prentice on inviting people into their own kitchens with good ingredients
Jessica Prentice is a founder of Three Stone Hearth, a Community Supported Kitchen and worker-owned cooperative in Berkeley, California. She has loved cooking for as long as she can remember. In 1996 she completed the professional Chef’s Training at the Natural Gourmet Institute in New York. She...
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#27 Michaela Leslie-Rule on bridging the generational gap in food knowledge
Michaela Leslie-Rule is a digital media producer, storyteller and social scientist. As the owner of Fact Memory Testimony she has been fortunate to collaborate with ITVS, Memphis Music Initiative, Community Foundation for Monterey County and Nike and Firelight Foundations’ Grassroots Girls...
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#26 Sita Bhaumik on the People’s Kitchen Collective, decolonizing foods and remedies
Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik is an artist, writer, and educator who understands art as a strategy to connect personal and public histories. Her research focuses on decolonizing the hierarchy of the senses and impact of migration. Raised in Los Angeles and based in Oakland, she is Indian and Japanese...
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#25 Anna Lappé on connections between food systems and climate change, and the growing food movement
Anna Lappé is a bestselling author and widely respected educator, known for her work as an expert on food systems and as a sustainable food advocate. She is the co-author or author of three books and the contributing author to ten others. Anna’s work has been translated internationally and…
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#24 Saru Jayaraman on the struggle for pay and working conditions in restaurants
Saru Jayaraman is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC-United) and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley. After 9/11, together with displaced World Trade Center workers, she co-founded ROC in New York,...
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#23 Hillary Sardiñas on the incredible diversity of native pollinators
Hillary Sardiñas is a pollination ecologist and naturalist. She has a PhD from UC Berkeley, where she studied the ability of small-scale on-farm native plant restorations to contribute to both wild bee conservation and farm viability through increased yields due to heightened crop pollination....
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#22 Simran Sethi on the biodiversity behind the flavors we love, democratizing taste
Simran Sethi is a journalist and educator focused on food, sustainability and social change. Named the environmental “messenger” by Vanity Fair, a top 10 eco-hero of the planet by the U.K.’s Independent, and designated one of the top eight women saving the planet by Marie Claire, Simran is the...
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#21 Heidi Herrmann on the multiple livelihoods of a farmer, harvesting seaweed
Heidi Herrmann started Strong Arm Farm in 2009, originally with a focus on vegetables, and now offering an ever-expanding selection of specialty crops, including wildcrafted seaweed from the Sonoma coast. Heidi is also a Sustainable Agriculture Instructor at Santa Rosa Junior College, at their...
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#20 Jonah Raskin on the oyster wars, and creativity in response to the California drought
Jonah Raskin is a writer - a poet and journalist - with a love for food and the people who make it. Jonah is the author of fourteen books on subjects ranging from women in rock n roll, marijuana culture and politics, Jack London, Alan Ginsberg, and a personal exploration of the food and farming...
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#19 Emma Rosenbush on the changing labor politics in fine dining
Emma Rosenbush is the general manager at Cala in San Francisco, Chef Gabriela Cámara’s outpost of the renowned seafood restaurant Contramar in Mexico City. Before opening Cala, Emma stared an experimental pop-up restaurant in Mexico City called Pichón with Niki Nakazawa (who we interviewed on...
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#18 David Asher on raw milk and how diversity makes cheese and food systems resilient
David Asher is an organic farmer, farmstead cheese maker and cheese educator based on the gulf islands of British Columbia, Canada. A guerrilla cheesemaker, David does not make cheese according to standard industrial philosophies - he explores traditionally cultured, non-corporate methods of...
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#17 Antonio Roman-Alcala on pushing institutions and transforming the food system at multiple scales
Antonio Roman-Alcalá is a food activist, gardener, teacher and scholar. In 2005, with a group of friends, he broke into a vacant lot by the freeway in the southern part of San Francisco to start Alemany Farm. He has taught Ecological Horticulture there and at many other food projects. He managed…
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#16 Niki Ford on plant-driven cooking and food at the nexus of creativity and poverty
Niki Ford is an artist, writer and chef. She worked at Chez Panisse for six years, then at the American Academy in Rome as a part of the Rome Sustainable Food Project. As a Culinary Fellow at the Montalvo Arts Center in California, she spent a year testing out a more “plant driven” menu concept…
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#15 Tim Page on supporting a community of farmers and what to do with ridiculous abundance
Tim Page runs the Farmers’ Exchange of Earthy Delights — also known as F.E.E.D. Sonoma— a produce distribution company that works very closely with 50 small scale farmers in Sonoma County, California. Growing up in the Orange County, CA of the ‘70s, Tim witnessed the disappearance of farmlands...
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#14 Maria Eugenia Flores and Chris Bacon on a collaboration born of revolution
Maria Eugenia Flores Gomez is a social psychologist and community organizer with more than 15 years of experience working in Central America and California for peace, women rights, and food security. Chris Bacon is an environmental social scientist whose work has focused on food security and food...
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#13 Molly Wilson and Zack Hemstreet on becoming farmers and diversity as a farming principal
Molly Wilson and Zack Hemstreet run Bullock Lake Farm on Salt Spring Island, British Colombia, where they grow organic produce, flowers, and pastured livestock. From heirloom apples to bouquets to a new barn that will double as a music venue, they take a diverse approach farming. They sell at…
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#12 Liz Carlisle on the Lentil Underground, and farmers as innovators and scientists
Liz Carlisle is the author of The Lentil Underground, a story of organic conversion and community organizing in the northern Great Plains. Her book follows a group of farmers from very different ideological backgrounds as they revolt against industrial agriculture, diversify their farms, build...
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Some announcements
Delicious Revolution is taking a short break, while we work on bringing you an amazing second season. We'll be back on March 7. Stay tuned for great things to come! In the mean time, if you want to give us a hand, leave us a review on iTunes-- its easy, and helps more than you think. Do it from…
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#11 Kyra Busch on agrobiodiversity, learning solidarity, and thinking on a 100-year time frame
Kyra Busch has advocated for local food sovereignty for over a decade. Working with the Alternative Agriculture Network of Thailand and the Educational Network for Global and Grassroots Exchange, she worked on successful initiatives to certify and import Fair Trade Thai jasmine rice to the U.S.…
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#10 Brian Dowd-Uribe on Burkina Faso, GM cotton, and making alliances across inequality
Brian Dowd-Uribe is a food systems researcher and assistant professor at University of San Francisco. He met Devon in the Environmental Studies PhD program at UC Santa Cruz. There, Brian’s research took place in Burkina Faso, where he looked closely at the introduction of genetically modified...
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#9 Niki Nakazawa on cooking as exploration, and eating local in Mexico City
Since moving to Mexico City in 2007, Niki Nakazawa has navigated between the art, architecture, music and food worlds. After several years working as managing editor at art and architecture publishing houses, she founded the experimental pop-up restaurant and catering company Pichón with Emma...
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Delicious Revolution is a show about food, culture, and place. We talk with people whose expertise in food comes from working with food as farmers, fishers, artists, cooks, activists, scholars, journalists, and more. They spend a large portion of their life thinking about food- what it means, how to make it, how to change the food system, how it ties together societies. We will bring you in-depth conversations with some of the brilliant people that inspire the ways we think about food. Find us online at deliciousrevolutionshow.com Chelsea Wills and Devon Sampson produce Delicious Revolution.
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