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Lunch Agenda
by Full Service Radio
Lunch Agenda is a virtual lunch date that offers us all a chance to be food activists. Kiko spent three years interviewing neighbors served by the Capital Area Food Bank about how they like to eat. She’s learned that in order for everyone in America to eat better, we need to listen to different perspectives from our own and pursue change on many levels. She’ll sit with doctors, parents, policymakers and more to hear their agenda for the food system, and will ask each guest for one action listeners can take to change things for the better.This show records and broadcasts LIVE on Full Service Radio from the lobby of the LINE DC in Adams Morgan, Washington DC.
Episodes
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Milk With Dignity #2
"Nacho" -- member of Migrant Justice’s Farmworker Coordinating Committee --has negotiated powerful legal changes in Vermont. Jose Ignacio “Nacho” de la Cruz and Julie Kurtz discuss the path from his family farm in Mexico to the dairies of Vermont – and his aspiration for bringing basic labor and...
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Milk With Dignity #1
Migrant Justice dairy farmworker leaders in Vermont have been re-writing the farm labor rules for dairy…by following the money. Julie Kurtz speaks with Migrant Justice Staff Coordinator Marita Canedo about how migrant farmworker communities have achieved policy reforms, organized for economic...
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Eating the Green New Deal, Episode 9: Senator Booker Ag Bills
Julie Kurtz hosts US Senator Cory Booker’s Deputy Chief of Staff, Adam Zipkin, in this final episode of the Eating the Green New Deal series. We discuss how Senator Booker has flushed out Green New Deal concepts through the Climate Stewardship Act, Farm System Reform Act and other legislation. We...
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Eating the Green New Deal, Episode 8: Labor & Business
In 2017 Ben & Jerry’s reached a historic agreement with Migrant Justice, implementing the worker-driven Milk with Dignity Program in Ben & Jerry’s Northeast dairy supply chain. Julie Kurtz hosts Cheryl Pinto, Ben & Jerry’s Global Values-Led Sourcing Manager, to discuss how they’re incorporating...
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Eating the Green New Deal, Episode 7: Food Business
General Mills aims to bring 1 million acres into regenerative agriculture by 2030. Julie Kurtz hosts Shauna Sadowski, Head of Sustainability for General Mill’s Natural and Organics Operating Unit, to discuss how regenerative agriculture could be part of solving the climate crisis, support farm...
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Eating the Green New Deal, Episode 6: Land
Losing two-thirds of US farmers this past century while farm size tripled, has disproportionately squeezed out small farms, especially African-Americans—where we’ve lost 98% of farmers. Julie Kurtz hosts attorneys Jillian Hishaw and Mavis Gragg, who discuss the strategies they pursue to keep...
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Eating the Green New Deal, Episode 5: Millennial Farmers
Is a sustainable farming future possible without farmers? Till just recently, the US has hemorrhaged young farmers, who face a myriad of barriers to entry and to maintaining generational family farms. Today features Davon Goodwin of NC and Jake Ehret of MN to talk about land access, farm...
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Eating the Green New Deal, Episode 4: #SexySoils
If this episode doesn’t convert us all into a soil farmers, it at least makes clear how much soil matters. Host Julie Kurtz speaks with Dr. Andrea Basche and Steven Tucker of Nebraska about the power of soils to transform how we do modern agriculture, by using nature’s lessons to help us protect...
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Eating the Green New Deal, Episode 3: Worker Throughout Food Supply Chains
The Food System employs more workers than any other sector, but pays less. Guest host Julie Kurtz speaks with Jose Oliva—longtime Organizer, James Beard Award Recipient, and American Food Hero Awardee—about the inseparability of labor, race, immigration and food. We consider how a Green New Deal,...
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Eating the Green New Deal, Episode 2
Despite enthusiastic response among some, not all farmers, ranchers and rural communities find the Green New Deal easy to swallow. In the second episode with guest host Julie Kurtz, today we talk with Scott Blubaugh of Blubaugh Angus Ranch in Oklahoma and Roger Noonan of Middle Branch Farm in New...
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Eating the Green New Deal, Episode 1
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DC Area Food Fighters: Haydee's Restaurant
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DC Area Food Fighters: O Earth Creamery and Bakehouse
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DC Area Food Fighters: Kefa Cafe
In 1996, Lene Tsegaye co-founded Kefa Cafe coffee shop in Silver Spring. Lene joins Lunch Agenda to discuss the past, present, and future of Kefa Cafe and its relationship with a rapidly changing neighborhood.
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Food Justice meets Sustainable Action: The Food Recovery Network
On this episode of Lunch Agenda, guest host Alexya takes a deep dive into one of the largest student-run food justice organizations in the country. In 2011, several students from the University of Maryland, College Park organized to recover leftover food from the campus dining halls to deliver it...
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Economic Empowerment through Accessible Foods
DC Central Kitchen is one of the city's most impactful organizations. Not only does the nonprofit provide food access through a variety of programs, DCCK also recognizes the systemic link between food access, poverty, and economic empowerment. Now in its 30th year of operation, DC Central Kitchen...
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Building Community Resilience through Cooperative Food Access
Though Wards 7 and 8 are home to over 150,000 DC residents, there are only three grocery stores open in these neighborhoods, causing a food access issue that must be addressed. This episode marks the first guest host spot on Lunch Agenda. Join Alexya in discussion with Clarice Manning and Raul...
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Institutional Food, Episode 4: Prison Food (Identity & Entrepreneurism)
Beyond the public safety and public health impacts of inadequate nutrition in correctional facilities, the food served there affects the emotions, relationships and aspirations of those on the inside. Kiko learns about issues of food environment from Leslie Soble, an ethnographer with Impact...
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Institutional Food, Episode 3: Prison Food (Nutrition Justice)
Roughly 2.8 million incarcerated Americans--who on the outside would present significant power as consumers--are often ignored or forgotten in our food system. Kiko talks with Halim Flowers about the lived experience of eating while incarcerated for 22 years in facilities from the east coast to…
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Institutional Food, Episode 2: Hospital Food
Our institutional food exploration moves to hospitals, another setting where huge amounts of people (who don’t necessarily have a choice in the matter) eat every day. Kiko speaks with Jeff Klova, Executive Chef at Temple University Hospital and Shelley Chamberlain, the Healthy Food in Healthcare...
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Institutional Food, Episode 1: Hotel Food
Kiko kicks off a long-awaited series examining food offerings in hotels, hospitals and prisons. In conversation with Spike Gjerde of A Rake's Progress in the Line Hotel DC and Jessi Silverman of Center for Science in the Public Interest's report on hotel food, we explore why food served in...
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Investing in Food, Episode 4: Reaching for Food Sovereignty
If you’re an investor looking to drive equity through your funding decisions, today’s episode is for you. Kiko talks with Dennis Derryck of Corbin Hill Food Project about how he’s structured that non-profit around equitable ownership and participation. Then Olivia Rebanal of Capital Impact…
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Investing in Food, Episode 3: From "Getting the Food They Need" to "Buying the Food They Want"
In conversation with Radha Muthiah of the Capital Area Food Bank and Pamela Hess of the Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food & Agriculture, we discuss how funders are supporting work to help people take the steps towards purchasing food for themselves, in a journey toward more sovereign...
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Investing in Food, Episode 2: Filling the Gaps with Chris Bradshaw & Tom McDougall
Chris Bradshaw and Tom McDougall identified gaps in Washington’s food landscape, and founded a non-profit (Dreaming Out Loud) and a business (4P Foods) to address them. In the second episode of this series, the two entrepreneurs are joined by Katie Jones, the Director of the Bainum Family...
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Investing in Food, Episode 1: Inside the Mind of the Investor
Want to get inside the head of people who invest in food concepts? In partnership with the Bainum Family Foundation, Kiko kicks off a special series all about the who, why and how of food investment. Today’s guests--Eric Kessler of Arabella Advisors, Leila Otis of the Bainum Family Foundation…
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Black Food History Month, Episode 3: Tambra Raye Stevenson on Marking this Moment
We’re nearing the end of February and Black History Month, but there are 10 months left this year to mark the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans landing on American soil. Kiko talks with Tambra Raye Stevenson, the DC-based food educator and founder of NativSol Kitchen and WANDA…
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Black Food History Month, Episode 2: Leah Penniman on Agricultural Organizing
Leah Penniman co-founded Soul Fire Farm with a committment to ending racism and injustice in the food system, and last year published Farming While Black, a how-to guide for African-heritage people ready to reclaim their agency. In today's episode Kiko asks her about Ujumma, Susus, and other ways...
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Black Food History Month, Episode 1: Michael Twitty on Culinary History
This week marks the beginning of Black History Month, and this year marks the 400th anniversary of the transatlantic slave trade beginning in the United States. In that spirit, Kiko kicks off a new Lunch Agenda series in conversation with Michael Twitty, a black culinary historian, food writer…
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5th Grade Special: School Kitchen Investigation
Fifth graders from Mundo Verde Bilingual Public Charter School take the mic to interview Chef Dot Steck about their school's own from-scratch kitchen, and Lea Howe of DC Greens about work being done across DC to improve school food. These students have persevered for months to learn about...
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Holiday Variety Show
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, so we take a break from hard hitting food system topics for a little holiday mixup. After the last Food News headlines of 2018, Kiko introduces three other food and drink-focused Full Service Radio hosts worth listening to over your holiday break.…
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That Great Paradox: Food Professionals and Eating Disorders
Many of the people who work in food jobs haven’t always had the most balanced relationship with food in their own personal lives. An extra layer of shame sits with those of us who aren’t sure we have the right to teach healthy eating, or to feed others, if we at one time struggled to feed...
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What Our Region Grows: Briefing on Newly-Released Agriculture Report
DYK that less than 3% of the tomatoes, potatoes, and blueberries consumed in the Washington, DC area are grown here? The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments just released a report that is the closest thing we have to a real-time snapshot of farming in the broader DC foodshed. Kiko is…
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Teaching Food, Episode 7: Mark Bittman on Teaching Home Cooks
Through his New York Times columns, his 20 cookbooks and beyond, Mark Bittman has mastered the art of meeting the "student" where we are. His novel recipe formats--from the "Recipe Matrix" to "Vegan Before 6" to the "Choose Five" approach--have made cooking less intimidating, and more creative.…
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Teaching Food, Episode 6: Teaching Food Growing
How do city folks learn to grow food in their urban garden plots? And how do farmers learn to grow food in huge quantities on production farms, with all of the machinery, strategic planning, and environmental knowledge it requires? Kiko catches up with three food growing teachers: Shawna DeWitt…
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Teaching Food, Episode 5: Theory of Behavior Change
What does it take to change the habits that dictate our every food decision? Kristy McCarron, who oversees all nutrition, culinary education and anti-hunger programs for the YMCA of Metropolitan Washington, promotes a Theory of Behavior Change that relies on consistent, repeated practice and...
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Teaching Food, Episode 4
Sasha Bernstein-Skon of The Cooking Project in San Francisco and Elizabeth Bennett-Parker of Together We Bake in Alexandria, VA are growing the pool of talent for the restaurant industry nationwide while providing life skills like confidence and self-sufficiency to their students. Kiko interviews...
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Teaching Food, Episode 3
As a culinary educator focused on eating well on a budget, JuJu Harris starts classes by sharing her own story of growing up with overweight parents and raising her children using SNAP and WIC benefits. During her popular cooking demonstrations, she imparts wisdom about buying food, getting the...
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Teaching Food, Episode 2
Lola Bloom (Director of Food and Wellness at DC Bilingual) and Jenn Mampara (FRESHFARM's Director of Education) are together responsible for thousands of Washington, DC kids being schooled in cooking and gardening. Kiko digs into their approaches to aligning the classroom with the cafeteria in...
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Teaching Food, Episode 1
Kiko kicks off the fall back-to-school season in conversation with the woman who may be more responsible than anyone for what is taught about food in school: Marion Nestle is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, emerita, at New York University, and author…
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BIG FOOD Stars, Episode 4
America's favorite mac and cheese company Annie's Organic has blazed a trail in the regenerative agriculture movement by introducing soil-focused products and an agricultural scorecard. And because Annie's was purchased by General Mills in 2014, this means they can use the tool to track progress...
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BIG FOOD Stars, Episode 3
We're in the middle of a national dairy crisis, with failing economics of the traditional small dairy farm coupled with the rise of factory mega-farms. So the time is right to look at how a BIG dairy company can do things differently. Melissa "Missy" Hughes, Organic Valley's Chief Mission Officer...
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BIG FOOD Stars, Episode 2
We live in the era of fast casual, where it's increasingly easy to find higher quality food on the fly. But what happens to the quality of food at a fast casual restaurant when it grows from 1 location, to 5 to--in the case of Honeygrow--32 restaurants across the country? Our BIG FOOD Stars…
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BIG FOOD Stars, Episode 1
Let's see if we can turn our preconceived notions about the food system upside down! If you, too, have learned to assume the worst about BIG FOOD, Lunch Agenda's new series is for you. We'll hear from leaders who are pushing forward big food businesses in innovative ways that offer positive...
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Food Policy Class, Lesson 3: DC Vote Primer
If you’re a DC voter preparing for the elections on June 19th, and you care about the local food system, this episode is for you. Washington recently held its first ever DC Candidates Food Forum, where candidates for at-large council seats shared their platforms for improving food access,...
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Food Admin, Episode 4
Lunch Agenda's Food Admin series has showcased jobs that are often overlooked or undervalued in our food system. The series closes in conversation with two successful food marketing executives: Jen Pelka of SF-based The Riddler and Magnum PR, and Nikki Rappaport of national fast-casual...
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Food Admin, Episode 3
Leah Campbell recently wrote about Human Resources, “In many restaurants in this industry, big and small, there is no one in this role. There’s a simple enough reason: restaurant margins are razor thin, and HR isn’t seen as contributing to the bottom line.” Lunch Agenda's third dive into...
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Food Admin, Episode 2
As Administrative Assistants, Sheila Gilbert and Shannon Bailey have set the staff culture at the food nonprofits where they've worked. Beyond that, they have literally sat on the front lines of the Washington area’s fight against hunger. The second episode in Lunch Agenda's "Food Admin" series...
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Food Admin, Episode 1
Kiko kicks off Lunch Agenda's "Food Admin" series in conversation with Matt Hetrick, an accountant that helps make food business clients sustainable. Matt describes the compromises he guides restaurants through to hit their targets, and shares financial tips for aspiring food biz owners. Stay…
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Food Policy Class, Lesson 2
Katherine Miller, Senior Director of Food Policy Advocacy for the James Beard Foundation, trains chefs on how to advocate for the change they want to see in American food. On Lunch Agenda's second Food Policy Class, she gives us a behind-the-scenes look at work being done by the people who make…
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Activism Lunch Date with Julia Turshen
Julia Turshen uses food as a jumping off point to guide us on our own activist journeys. Her 2017 title Feed the Resistance convened leading voices in America's food justice movement to grow their collective impact. And her new project Equity at the Table aims to give women of color and of the...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Lunch Agenda is a virtual lunch date that offers us all a chance to be food activists. Kiko spent three years interviewing neighbors served by the Capital Area Food Bank about how they like to eat. She’s learned that in order for everyone in America to eat better, we need to listen to different perspectives from our own and pursue change on many levels. She’ll sit with doctors, parents, policymakers and more to hear their agenda for the food system, and will ask each guest for one action listeners can take to change things for the better.This show records and broadcasts LIVE on Full Service Radio from the lobby of the LINE DC in Adams Morgan, Washington DC.
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