How would you cope with the medical inability to eat?
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A Sicilian Wine Odyssey
What do culture, food and wine tell us about a specific place and time? We’ll spend this hour with journalist and travel writer Robert V. Camuto who explores the rugged island of Sicily in his new book “Palmento: A Sicilian Wine Odyssey” (Nebraska, 2010).
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Hunger and the Holidays
How are tough economic times affecting area food banks? We’ll discuss good will and feeding those in need with Jan Pruitt, President & CEO of North Texas Food Bank, and Bo Soderbergh, Executive Director of Tarrant Area Food Bank. How do controversial artists find support for their work? In the Art&Seek segment, we’ll talk with MK Wegmann, president and CEO of the National Performance Network, which champions artists and performers who others shy away from. You can see some of this December 10 and 11, during a public showcase at the Majestic Theatre.
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Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
Just how important is food to the stability of a society? We’ll examine the Romans and Mayans, modern challenges in the United States and China and more this hour with agricultural expert Evan D. G. Fraser, co-author of the new book “Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations” (Free Press, 2010).
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Dining in Dallas Today
What’s new on the Dallas food scene these days and what are your favorite new places to eat? We’ll talk this hour with Dallas Morning News restaurant critic and dining editor Leslie Brenner. Yolette Garcia will guest-host.
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How Eight Cooks Saved My Life
How can a kitchen table and the foods and wisdom that are passed across it change your life? We’ll find out this hour with New York Times food writer Kim Severson, author of the new book “Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved My Life” (Riverhead Books, 2010).
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Archiving the Global Seed Vault
How can our planet’s food crops be protected from natural disaster, and what architectural form would that protection take? We’ll talk this evening with Dornith Doherty, professor of photography at the University of North Texas, who traveled to a remote Scandinavian island to photograph the “Doomsday Vault” – a structure which preserves seeds from around the globe to ensure agricultural genetic diversity for the future. How do you find new audiences for new music? In the Art&Seek segment, Jerome talks to Maria Schleuning, violinist and artistic director at Voices of Change.
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One Couple's Unlikely Adventures in Eating in America
What do you spend on your daily bread and what is reality like for the 35 million Americans with limited food options? We’ll spend the hour with Christopher Greenslate, co-author of the new book “On a Dollar a Day: One Couple’s Unlikely Adventures in Eating in America” (Hyperion, Paperback, 2010).
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How to Reshape Market Society & Redefine Democracy
Do the concurrent crises of the economy, climate change, and global food supply provide an opportunity to change the way we think? We’ll find the advantages in valuing people, places, and animals regardless of their economic worth with Raj Patel, author of the new book “The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy” (Picador, 2010).
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The (Almost) Definitive Guide to Gastronomy
Do you know how to savor a perfect peach or decode the wine list at an upscale restaurant? Have you eaten street food in a strange new city and lived to tell the tale? We’ll talk this hour with Pim Techamuanvivit, author of “The Foodie Handbook: The (Almost) Definitive Guide to Gastronomy” (Chronicle, 2009).
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Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine
How did regular old food become American food? We’ll spend this hour with culinary historian and author Andrew F. Smith, whose new book is “Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine” (Columbia, 2009).
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How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly
What does it really mean to live and eat sustainably? We’ll talk this hour with James McWilliams, winner of the 2009 Hiett Prize in the Humanities and author of the new book “Just Food: Where Locovores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly” (Little, Brown and Company, 2009).
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