There’s no doubt that food has a nutritious value, but what do our food choices say about us and what does food represent in our lives?
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The Costs of Food Waste
What’s the value of the food we throw away?
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The Rise and Fall of an Improbable Food
How did tuna go from being sold primarily as a fertilizer to almost everyone’s lunch box?
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Finding a Life in Food
How did an orphaned Ethiopian boy who was raised in Sweden become a rising star of the New York and international culinary scene?
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Food for Homesick Texans
What foods do you crave when you’re far away from home?
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Government Subsidies and Our Food Bills
Do we really know the how and why behind government subsidies? Who do they benefit and why were they created in the first place?
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Foods for Homesick Texans
What foods do you crave when you’re far away from home?
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A School Food Revolution
What can parents do to help schools provide healthy lunches for students and to foster healthy food attitudes in the minds of their kids?
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The Food and Restaurant Scene
What’s new in restaurants? Join us this hour to find out.
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Is Our Food Really Safe?
Do you worry about the safety of your family’s food?
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Beekeepers, Agriculture and the Food We Eat
Hour 1: What impact do honeybees and beekeepers have on agriculture in America? We’ll talk this hour with journalist Hannah Nordhaus who examines the industry through the experiences of commercial beekeeper Jim Miller in her book “The Beekeeper’s Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America” (Harper Perennial, 2011). https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/140/a7f29279-66b9-4590-a02c-756ee49dedac/KERA_Think_06-20-11_HR_1.mp3
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Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System
Hour 1: Everybody loves it, and no one can live without it, but how do we make the world’s food system more equitable? We’ll talk this hour with Oran B. Hesterman, Ph.D., president and CEO of Fair Food Network and author of the book “Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All” (PublicAffairs, 2011). https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/140/dcab201e-8a8d-477c-8411-c650d4b4864f/KERA_Think_06-13-11_HR_1.mp3
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