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In Grocery, bestselling author Michael Ruhlman offers incisive commentary on America’s relationship with its food and investigates the overlooked source of so much of it—the grocery store. In a culture obsessed with food—how it looks, what it tastes like, where it comes from, what is...

Welcome to ”Linen Plus Unfolded,” the podcast that delves into the world of hospitality, healthcare, and industrial supplies. Brought to you by Linen Plus, a leading distributor renowned for providing high-quality linens, textiles, and a wide array of related products across Canada and the United States. In each episode, we explore the latest trends, innovations, and best practices in industries we serve, offering valuable insights to help businesses enhance their operations and customer satisfaction. Whether you’re in hospitality, healthcare, or the industrial sector, ”Linen Plus ...

Stories from the Stillhouse. Conversations with master distillers about the art and science of craft distilling.

What's causing our current high food prices? Is organic food really better for us? Do we care about Fairtrade or food miles? Should we buy locally or from the supermarket?

Eating has been described as the "most political act we do on a daily basis", with our choices affecting our health, landscape, climate, and economy. Food: What Are We Really Eating? lifts the lid on food production and the dizzying array of food choices we face each time we shop.

Fletcher Isacks hosts a weekly informal business lunch at Farm & Fire in scenic Santa Rosa Beach. Local business people, community leaders, and beachside luminaries dive under the surface of the surf and sand lifestyle, sharing insider info about who and what makes The Emerald Coast tick. Whether you're a a beach-loving visitor or an Emerald Coast lifer, Out to Lunch will surprise and delight you as you get to meet who's here and what they're doing. You'll also find the show on NPR station WFSW 89.1FM on The Emerald Coast.

Food Secure Nation Hosted by award-winning radio hosts, Dr. Phil Knight and Gerry Brisson, Food Secure Nation explores each piece of the food security puzzle, how they connect, and where leaders, organizations, and everyday people across the country can create the most impact.

This podcast follows award-winning British journalist Martin Hesp as he travels the world enjoying the sights, tasting the food and booze, and meeting people from all walks of life.

We started a chocolate factory with zero experience in chocolate.Bean to Business is a weekly show from the team at Hill Country Chocolate in Fredericksburg, Texas. We make bean-to-bar chocolate—starting with raw cacao beans and turning them into finished bars right here in our production facility.Every week, we pull back the curtain on what it actually takes to run a small manufacturing business. The wins. The mistakes. The stuff nobody warns you about.We talk about sourcing ingredients from around the world, working with Italian production equipment, building a brand in a tourist town, and...

A celebrated food writer's expansive, audacious excavation of the development of modern queer identity and food culture.

An enlightening narrative history—an entertaining fusion of Tom Wolfe and Michael Pollan—that traces the colorful origins of once unconventional foods and the diverse fringe movements, charismatic gurus, and counterculture elements that brought them to the mainstream and created a distinctly...

In Food, John Coveney examines "food as . . . " identity, politics, industry, regulation, the environment, justice, and gastronomy. He explores how food helps us understand what it means to be human.

This authoritative primer lays out everything you need to know to understand today's global food landscape.

A provocative look at how and what Americans eat and why—a flavorful blend of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Salt Sugar Fat, and Freakonomics that reveals how the way we live shapes the way we eat. Food writer and Culinary Institute of America program director Sophie Egan takes readers on an...

America is more than just a fast food nation. Food Americana is the inside story of how generations of Americans have formed a national cuisine with tastes from all over the world. Fried chicken was a distinctly Southern dish - now it's the Sunday night special at the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Hollywood. A Utah restaurant won Maine's annual Best Lobster Roll competition. And perhaps the ultimate all-American dish, pizza, is served up in 30 different styles, a total of three billion pies a year, an average of 23 pounds for each of us.

The story of low-wage workers rising up around the world to demand respect and a living wage. Tracing a new labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from across the globe, “We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now” is an urgent, illuminating look at globalization as seen through the...

Why Smart People Make Bad Food Choices explores the hidden influences and mental shortcuts our minds use to process information and how that often leads to unhealthy food choices. Understanding these hidden influences can help us make better decisions. More importantly, we can learn to fear less, and enjoy more, the food we eat.

Throughout World War II, when Saturday nights came around, servicemen and hostesses happily forgot the war for a little while as they danced together in USO clubs, which served as havens of stability in a time of social, moral, and geographic upheaval. Meghan Winchell demonstrates that in addition to boosting soldier morale, the USO acted as an architect of the gender roles and sexual codes that shaped the "greatest generation".

The Problem with Solutions combines an analysis of the rise of tech company solution culture with findings from actual research on the sector's ill-informed attempts to address the problems of food and agriculture.

Over the past several years, Hardwick, Vermont, a typical hardscrabble farming community of three thousand residents, has jump-started its economy and redefined its self-image through a local, self-sustaining food system unlike anything else in America.

For Black Americans, the food system is broken. When it comes to nutrition, Black consumers experience an unjust and inequitable distribution of resources. Black Food Matters examines these issues through in-depth essays that analyze how Blackness is contested through food, differing ideas of what makes our sustenance "healthy", and Black individuals' own beliefs about what their cuisine should be.