By Lauren Haupt
The New York City Food Policy Center has created a list of 25 engaging, entertaining, informative, and free food policy podcasts that you can take with you everywhere you go this summer.
The following podcasts are available directly from their website (listed) or on your favorite podcast listening apps like iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, and more.
Stay tuned weekly for the next installment!
A Sustainable Mind
Podcaster:
Marjorie Alexander
What it’s about:
Sustainable food, agriculture, and eco-friendly lifestyles
Year Started:
2015
Episodes-to-date/Frequency:
21, about once a month, last update May 5, 2016
From the Podcaster (list the description):
A Sustainable Mind is a podcast created for you, the ecopreneur, environmental activist, sustainability enthusiast, grassroots organizer, or those curious about eco-friendly lifestyles. If you are looking to get inspired, motivated and take ACTION to be the change you want to see in the world you are in the right place. Marjorie Alexander brings you environmental changemakers whose campaigns, companies and projects have changed the planet for the better. They discuss their journey to go green, light-bulb moment, sustainable habits, lessons from launching their project, and much more. Each episode ends with ACTIONABLE advice and resources for you to hit the ground running!
Where to find it:
A Taste of the Past
Podcaster:
Linda Pelaccio
What it’s about:
Food culture past and present
Year Started:
2009
Episodes-to-date/Frequency:
239, every 1-2 weeks, last update June 2, 2016
From the Podcaster (list the description):
Linda Pelaccio, a culinary historian, takes a weekly journey through the history of food on A Taste of the Past. Tune in for interviews with authors, scholars and culinary chroniclers who discuss food culture from ancient Mesopotamia and Rome to the grazing tables and deli counters of today. Each week Linda explores the lively link between food cultures of the present and past.
Where to find it:
https://heritageradionetwork.org/series/a-taste-of-the-past/
The Bond Appetit
Podcaster:
Ronsley Vaz
What it’s about:
Food discussions on culture, cooking, and politics.
Year Started:
2013
Episodes-to-date/Frequency:
161, about every 7 days, last update June 2, 2016
From the Podcaster (list the description):
This show focuses on food and the effects it has on people. This show interviews high performing people who do the cool stuff, how they find the time to eat well, and how they focus on what they eat. This podcast will give you tips, ideas and ways to change your experience with food. Then, to use that experience to motivate you to do the things you have on your bucket list. We help you figure out what to eat, how to cook it, and when to make time to do it all. We interview entrepreneurs, fresh food chefs, dieticians, health professionals, personal trainers, and high achieving people that are making a change to their lives and others around them by changing the food that fuel their everyday.
Where to find it:
Gastropod
Podcaster:
Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley
What it’s about:
Food Through the Lens of Science and History
Year Started:
2014
Episodes-to-date/Frequency:
38, biweekly, May 30, 2016
From the Podcaster (list the description):
Food with a side of science and history. Every other week, co-hosts Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley serve up a brand new episode exploring the hidden history and surprising science behind a different food- or farming-related topic, from aquaculture to ancient feasts, from cutlery to chile peppers, and from microbes to Malbec. We interview experts, visit labs, fields, and archaeological digs, and generally have lots of fun while discovering new ways to think about and understand the world through food.
Where to find it:
Let’s Get Real
Podcaster:
Erica Wides
What it’s about:
Debunking the “foodiness” of food vs real food
Year Started:
2011
Episodes-to-date/Frequency:
157, weekly, last update May 31, 2016
From the Podcaster (list the description):
A walk down any grocery store aisle shows that while foodiness™ has become incredibly convenient, a real food can be hard to find. Food has become inconvenient.
While growing vegetables, raising chickens, being a “locavore” and getting a birth certificate for every piece of salmon you eat sounds like a really nice idea – and a wonderful thing to be smug about on your Facebook page – let’s face it: for most of us these solutions aren’t very realistic.
That’s where Let’s Get Real comes in.
On Let’s Get Real Chef Erica Wides walks you down the aisles of the surreal world of food, serving up a heaping dose of reality by separating the food from the foodiness™ so you can forage, hunt, gather, trap and fish for real food anywhere, even in a foodiness™-filled mega market.
Where to find it:
https://letsgetrealshow.com/episodes/
