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Show #1009: A Question for Taste Jan 17, 2016

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Topics include how taste has served us through history; the means food scientists have developed to satisfy taste; and whether taste can tell good food from bad. Guest: John McQuaid, author of Tasty: The Art and Science of What We Eat

Show #509: Foraging the Finest Jan 17, 2016

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Show #704: SLAVES TO FOOD Jan 17, 2016

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History tells us when the harvest is good, civilization expands, but when the harvest is poor, civilization contracts. This lesson leads us to ask…

Show #617: SWATTING FARMERS Jan 17, 2016

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The SWAT team held the Stowers family with assault weapons for nine hours while tearing their farmhouse apart looking for evidence. The Stowers’ crime? Selling farm-fresh foods to friends and neighbors! This SWATTING of farmers leads us to ask

Show #741: TRY THIS COUNTRY Jan 17, 2016

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Virginia Woolf said it, and we believe it to be true, “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” That being the case we ask…

Show #941: THE MISSING ESSENTIAL Jan 17, 2016

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He caught fish in the frigid waters of the North Sea, then turned them into a healthy business in California. This fish oil entrepreneur leads us to ask…

Show #688: LOST FOODS Jan 17, 2016

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Now that food is produced in giant factories far, far away, it tastes like food produced in giant factories far, far away. But we remember what food tasted like when it was wild and free, and so we ask…

Show #658: THE POLITICS OF SCARCITY Jan 17, 2016

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The Man of Steel’s plan: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. To enforce this plan on a population of recalcitrant city people, Joseph Stalin used the ultimate weapon– food. And so we ask…

Show #518: Wild Horse Power Jan 17, 2016

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They escaped the conquistadors and mated with the liberated of trappers, settlers and farmers. They still roam free in the Pryor Mountains, where they lead us to ask, “Should we leave room for wild horses?” Topics include a brief history

Show #717 : Along Comes Mary Jan 17, 2016

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To save the endangered Delta smelt, Judge Oliver Wanger turned off the water to California’s San Joaquin Valley, thus putting tens of thousands out of work and turning hundreds of thousands of acres into dust. But then along comes Mary, who says