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The Sporkful

Dan Pashman and Stitcher

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We obsess about food to learn more about people. The Sporkful isn't for foodies, it's for eaters. Hosted by Dan Pashman, who's also the inventor of the new pasta shape cascatelli. James Beard and Webby Award winner for Best Food Podcast. A Stitcher Production.
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Each week on Food Network Obsessed, host Jaymee Sire sits down with your favorite chefs, food influencers and Food Network personalities to dish on all things delicious in the food world. From exclusive behind-the-scenes stories, first (and worst) jobs in food, to cooking fails and culinary triumphs, no topic is off the menu. Whether you’re a super-fan of Food Network or a super foodie you’re going to want to hear this!Want even more Food Network? Head to discovery+ to stream some of your fa ...
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What Doesn't Kill You

Heritage Radio Network

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Food production is a curious business; it's nuanced, layered, complex, and political. In What Doesn’t Kill You, host Katy Keiffer endeavors to identify and explain some of the key issues in our food system through interviews with journalists, authors, scientists, activists, and industry experts. Water rights, meat and agricultural production, food waste, labor issues, and new technologies are just some of the topics explored so we can better understand how to feed the future.
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Japan Eats!

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What is Japanese food? Sushi, or ramen, or kaiseki? What about Izakaya? Akiko Katayama, a Japanese native, New York-based food writer and director of the New York Japanese Culinary Academy, tells you all about real Japanese food and food culture. With guests ranging from sake producers with generations of experience to American chefs pushing the envelope of Japanese gastronomy, Japanese cuisine is demystified here!
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A Taste of the Past

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Culinary historian Linda Pelaccio takes a journey through the history of food. Take a dive into food cultures through history, from ancient Mesopotamia and imperial China to the grazing tables and deli counters of today. Tune in as Linda, along with a guest list of culinary chroniclers and enthusiasts, explores the lively links between food cultures of the present and past.
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A weekly podcast about great food and the people who love to make and eat it, hosted by Tom Zalatnai and Teffer Adjemian! @NoBadFoodPod If you're interested in sponsoring the show, or want to be in touch about guest appearances, you can reach us at upfordpodcast@gmail.com
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Taste Buds is a podcast where comedians Joe DeRosa and Sal Vulcano hash out all their food based arguments for YOU the fans to decide! MAKE SURE YOU VOTE IN THE TWITTER POLL TO WEIGH IN! Twitter polls go down on Sal's Twitter Account! Follow The Show on all socials! Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tastebudspod/?hl=en Twitter - https://twitter.com/tastebudspod?lang=en https://linktr.ee/Nopreshnetwork
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Moms of Flavortown

Rachel Stein Coleman Bloor and Debbie Pressman Cobb

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Moms of Flavortown is a podcast from Rachel Stein Coleman Bloor (winner of Worst Cooks in America Season 1) and Debbie Pressman Cobb (Senior Exec at Positive Jam PR, former latchkey kid raised on Food Network) where Food TV meets parenting. Recapping Tournament of Champions (Food Network), Top Chef (Bravo), and more! Find us at @momsofflavortown on Instagram
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Big Brains

University of Chicago Podcast Network

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Translating groundbreaking research into digestible brain food. Big Brains, little bites. Produced by the University of Chicago Podcast Network & Winner of CASE "Grand Gold" award in 2022, Gold award in 2021, and named Adweek's "Best Branded Podcast" in 2020.
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Allrecipes podcast, Homemade, celebrates good food, the people who make it, and the stories and traditions of beloved recipes. On the show, hosts Sabrina Medora (national food writer and hospitality industry insider) and Martie Duncan (author and Next Food Network Star finalist), talk to cooks of all stripes to reveal the memories and traditions behind their favorite foods.
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Sunny Anderson hosts Cooked and Booked, the podcast where food and true crime get blitzed, blended and baked into one deliciously dangerous dish. Sunny is best known as a Food Network host, but she’s also a true crime obsessive. In each episode she walks guests through wild stories of scams, heists and criminal capers with tasty twists. Like any good menu, this podcast has a wide array of offerings. Some stories are savory, like one man’s multi-year scam to create and sell millions in fake v ...
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We are hopeless animal lovers, who want to share our experience and knowledge with you, for the betterment of your animals’ lives. We focus on health, nutrition, behavior, and ideas for overall well-being and happiness. Twice a month, we bring you guest experts, advice, and commentary, and a lot of fun and laughter!
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Plum Luv Foods live is the Number One digital audio live food talk show heard live on Spreaker, Stitcher radio, Iheart radio, Spotify Thursday Nights at 10pm and archived to Itunes and everywhere podcasts are downloaded. Plum Luv Foods Live is Hosted by culinary and TV vet Chef Plum. Chef Plum is the host of “Edible on the Road” for “Edible Magazine, Seasoned on NPR, Restaurant Road Trip, and has had multiple appearances on The Food Network, CBS, ABC, BET, and was the host of the nationally ...
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Snacky Tunes

Heritage Radio Network

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Every Sunday, Snacky Tunes co-hosts Darin and Greg Bresnitz--brothers since birth, dance music DJ partners, dim sum lovers and whiskey aficionados--explore and celebrate the cultural convergence of music and food. Tune in as they stir up conversation with the world's top gastronomic talents, while also plugging in the amps for the best of this generation's up-and-coming musicians.
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Small Bites Radio

Small Bites Radio

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Food. Dining. Travel. Hospitality. Contact: smallbitesradio@gmail.com D and L Coffee Service Inc. presents Small Bites Radio the #1 listed “Food Radio show Philadelphia” and #1 listed “Food Radio show South Jersey”. #SmallBitesRadio has been named #14 out of the Top 30 Best Hospitality Shows on the planet for 2020, 2021, and 2022, #23 Top Philadelphia Lifestyle Influencer in 2021 and 2022, and nominated by Metro Philly Newspaper as 2022’s Best of Philly Arts & Entertainment. Small Bites is a ...
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Radio Cherry Bombe

The Cherry Bombe Podcast Network

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Radio Cherry Bombe features interviews with the most interesting people in the world of food. Each week, host Kerry Diamond, founder and editor of the indie magazine Cherry Bombe, talks to the chefs, bakers, creatives, and entrepreneurs making it happen. Follow @cherrybombe on Instagram for show news and more, and visit cherrybombe.com/radio-cherry-bombe for transcripts and past episodes. Thank you to Tralala for our theme song, "All Fired Up." Produced by The Cherry Bombe Podcast Network
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Damian Abraham has been many things... the singer of a critically acclaimed band, a failed VJ and food network host, one of the minds behind TV's "The Wrestlers", parent of 3... and undeniably, a punk music obsessive. Each week, he sits down and chats with an interesting person from various walks of life to find out how their world was influenced and changed by the discovery of a novelty genre that supposedly died out in 1978... PUNK!
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Skates & Plates

The Hockey Podcast Network

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Welcome to the Skates & Plates Podcast with your host, sports broadcaster Brandon Rewucki. Every Tuesday & Friday Brandon will dive into all things Winnipeg Jets, Food, and anything in between! Make sure you follow Brandon on Twitter @Brandon_Rewucki
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Eat. Talk. Repeat.

What's Right Network

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Renowned Las Vegas food critic John Curtas is serving you a new kind of food show — a proper food show. Co-hosted with his gastronomically-opinionated friends, Sam & Ash (of billboard lawyer notoriety), this podcast is not for the faint of palate. John has been the voice of the Vegas food scene since 1995 and has eaten in more local restaurants more often than anyone ever. So he doesn't have to justify his opinions. Sharpen your tongues as John & Associates recommend where to make reservatio ...
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Sav & Sean are the two besties you didn’t know you needed in your life! Savannah Pedersen (Author, Playwright, composer, and lover of all things cheese) and Sean Duncan (A jaded homosexual with too much time on his hands searching for any excuse to drink wine)! Sit down for weekly chats about topics ranging from: Friendship, Love, Sex, Food, Life, TikTok, Mental Health, and everything in between! Join them and special guests, as they discuss the questions that really matter. Such as: “How do ...
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Eating Matters

Heritage Radio Network

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Food has emerged as a critical policy area – and it raises big questions about health, labor, sustainability and our collective future. Join host Jenna Liut for conversations with food policy experts and leaders about the issues that shape our everyday experiences of buying, cooking and eating food.
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What's better than eating food? Talking about it! Join me on my culinary journey as I eat, watch, and talk food. Join the conversation as I review some of TV's sizzling shows, from Food Network's The Next Iron Chef to Fox's MasterChef. Happy Eating everyone!
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Hosted by drag star and motivational speaker Meatball, alongside rapper/comedian and gay bear Big Dipper, Sloppy Seconds features chaotic interviews with queer celebrities and an unapologetic look at sex, culture, and food. Get sloppy with these two messes who aren’t afraid to speak their minds. Produced by the Forever Dog Podcast Network and Moguls of Media.
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Stacking Dennys is about all things NASCAR, from fantasy to betting and everything in between, featuring Jordan McAbee of RotoBaller and Nick Giffen (a.k.a. RotoDoc) of The Action Network.
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It’s All About Food

Progressive Radio Network

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Since 2009, It’s All About Food, a vegan podcast, has been bringing you the best in up-to-date news regarding food, our food system and the vegan lifestyle. Hosted by Caryn Hartglass, a vegan since 1988, the program includes in-depth interviews with medical doctors, nutritionists, dietitians, cook book authors, artists, poets, athletes, environmentalists, animal rights activists, farmers, food manufacturers, lawyers, food scientists and more. Learn how we can solve many of the world’s proble ...
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Chefs Without Restaurants

The Chefs Without Restaurants Network

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Join Chris Spear as he interviews food and beverage entrepreneurs who've taken a unique path in the culinary world. His guests include caterers, research chefs, personal chefs, cookbook authors, food truck operators, farmers, and more – all individuals who've paved their own way in the culinary world. With over 30 years of experience in the hospitality industry, including his own personal chef business, Perfect Little Bites, Chris is dedicated to helping others grow and succeed in the food a ...
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Cutting the Curd

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Featuring interviews with notable cheesemakers, cheesemongers, and cheese-lovers, Cutting the Curd is an informative, occasionally irreverent, but always cheesy look at the curdy, the nerdy, and the downright funky world of artisan cheese.
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The Jack Kornfield Heart Wisdom hour celebrates Jack’s ability to mash up his long established Buddhist practices with many other mystical traditions, revealing the poignancy of life’s predicaments and the path to finding freedom from self-interest, self-judgment and unhappiness.
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Dispatches from the frontlines of food, farming, and the environment. From the Food & Environment Reporting Network, the producers of Hot Farm, REAP/SOW brings you narrative and investigative reporting that examines the consequences of what we choose to eat and why.
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Food Coma

Food Coma Podcast

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Foodcoma is a Tacoma based podcast where your hosts, former Food Network child star Greta Lau and travel foodie Rachel Nguyen discuss the top food spots for every type of cuisine in the PNW. By combining Greta's culinary expertise and Rachel's wide range of taste, they both find the best restaurants to go to when you're craving that particular food. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/foodcomapodcast/support
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Food Network stars showcase dishes at the top of their must-try lists. With direct audio from the hit Food Network TV series, chefs and cooks that have mastered these eats give the lowdown on how they're made.Hungry for more Food Network? Go to discoveryplus.com/bestthing to start your free trial today. Terms apply. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Principle of Hospitality (POH) saw a gap in Australia’s hospitality industry — with a growing need to keep abreast of the latest trends and innovations, as well as the changing needs of consumers, it was clear our hospitality heroes could benefit from a stronger support network.
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The Grape Nation

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The world of wine doesn't have to be intimidating. Wine-afficionado Sam Benrubi invites you on a weekly wine journey with The Grape Nation. No snobbery here, just a palatable trip through the world's vineyards, their keepers, journalists, authors, importers and more. Try some great wine with Sam and his guests and get tips for enjoying the best wines from the weekly "Wine List" and "Wine Sip." The Grape Nation...We Bring Wine to the People.
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Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with Xaq Frolich, Associate Professor of History at Auburn University, about his new book, From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age (University of California Press, 2023). From Label to Table tells the fascinating history of the US Food and Drug Administration’s spreading authorit…
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Chef Crista Luedtke discusses how her journey on the Food Network has evolved over the years, revealing the inner workings of her competitive spirit and the profound influence of her upbringing in a bustling household led by a single mother. Crista recounts her thrilling experiences on culinary battlegrounds like Guy's Grocery Games and Tournament …
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This week we present our bracket predictions for March Mayhem, a quick review of the new Wonka film, Disney releases a new image of Jared Leto from Tron Ares, we talk about whether Disney Speedstorm is still worth playing, Bob Iger cancels several Marvel projects, plus he makes a noticeable change to his announcement about Avatar coming to the Disn…
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Our guest today is Robby Cook, who is the chef at Coral. Coral opened in October 2023 and is located next to Grand Central Station in Manhattan. Robby’s path to becoming a successful sushi chef is unique and impressive. He joined us on Episode 37 in 2016, when he was the executive chef at Morimoto, and talked about his intriguing journey to becomim…
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This week, hosts Teffer Adjemian (@tefferbear) and Tom Zalatnai (@tomzalatnai) bring you the first quarter-final match-ups of Munch Madness 2024! Guest judges Cupcakedex (@cupcakedex) and Kadi Diop (@kadi_d) give us their takes on the battles between Ice Cream & Chocolate and Potatoes & Rice!Support the show on Patreon for a chance to be a guest ju…
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TOAP CLASSIC #10 (RELEASED DECEMBER 23, 2015): Don’t miss Neko’s career spanning retrospective Wild Creature dbl LP, available everywhere! Also, don’t miss Neko on tour! Episode 59: This week we are joined by the amazing Neko Case! Having been a fan for a long time, Damian is beside himself excited to talk to the former Maow drum hitter turned musi…
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Today’s guest is Chef Jess Murphy. Originally from New Zealand, Jess moved to Ireland and in 2011 opened the doors to Kai, the award-winning restaurant she runs with her husband, Dave Murphy. Because of the sustainability programs at Kai, it’s the only restaurant in Ireland to have been awarded the Michelin Green Star. Jess is also passionate about…
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In the final episode of “Anything’s Pastable,” the recipes are done — but they’re all in Google Docs. Now Dan has to bring them together into an actual book, with a cohesive visual style. So he hires an art director who scours flea markets for just the right props to bring the book’s personality to life. Then Dan heads to the Bay Area for the photo…
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We are supposed to get smarter as we get older. Do we? If the meaning of your life had to be found in nine representative days, which days would you choose? Are they the same days that your critics would select? Would you live your life differently if you had to watch yourself years later a big screen? Would you think you were as cool as you do now…
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Right to Reparations: The Claims Conference and Holocaust Survivors, 1951–1964 (Lexington, 2021) examines the early years of the Claims Conference, the organization which lobbies for and distributes reparations to Holocaust survivors, and its operations as a nongovernmental actor promoting reparative justice in global politics. Rachel Blumenthal tr…
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Listen to this interview of Brandon Brown, Professor of Physics at the University of San Francisco. We talk about factoring in both message-sender and -receiver to your writing for STEM. Brown is the author of Sharing Our Science: How to Write and Speak STEM (MIT Press, 2023). Brandon Brown : "I've seen so many different scientists and communicator…
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Ingrid Piller speaks with Jim Hlavac about interpreting to bridge language barriers. About 5% of the Australian population do not speak English or do not speak it well. In this conversation, Dr Jim Hlavac, an experienced interpreter and interpreting trainer, explains how professional interpreters, language mediators, and language brokers help to su…
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The period immediately following World War II was an era of dramatic transformation for Jews in America. At the start of the 1940s, President Roosevelt had to all but promise that if Americans entered the war, it would not be to save the Jews. By the end of the decade, antisemitism was in decline and Jews were moving toward general acceptance in Am…
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Sue Fliess ("fleece") is the award-winning, bestselling author of over 50 children's books including Sadie Sprocket Builds a Rocket, How to Trap a Leprechaun, Mary Had a Little Lab, Rumble and Roar, the Beatrice Bly's Rules for Spies series, the Kid Scientist series, the Magical Creatures and Crafts series, and many Little Golden Books. Her books h…
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The Holocaust is much-discussed, much-memorialized and much-portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked. Spanning the entirety of the Holocaust and across the world, this sweeping history deepens our understanding. Dan Stone reveals how the idea of 'industrial murder' is incomplete: many were killed where they li…
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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) is perhaps the most iconised historical figure in India. Born into a caste deemed ‘unfit for human association’, he came to define what it means to be human. How and why did Ambedkar, who revered and cited the Gita till the 1930s, turn against Hinduism? What were his quarrels with Gandhi and Savarkar? Why did he c…
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Paramilitaries, crime, and tens of thousands of disappeared persons—the so-called war on drugs has perpetuated violence in Latin America, at times precisely in regions of economic growth. Legal and illegal economy are difficult to distinguish. A failure of state institutions to provide security for its citizens does not sufficiently explain this. S…
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Manu Bhagavan and Ellen Chesler discuss Bhagavan’s latest book on Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (Penguin, 2023), admired sister of India’s founding Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and a pioneering public servant, diplomat, and women's rights advocate, in her own right. They talk about the Nehru’s privileged upbringing and elite education, their conversio…
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Nancy Folbre’s The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy (Verso, 2021) asks the questions of why and under what conditions overlapping systems of exploitation persist and decline. Folbre adds this book to a long repertoire of studying the economics of care, social reproduction, household-state relations, and w…
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This week the Buddies kickoff the pod by reminiscing about their time on the Jokers cruise and how hilarious Adam Ray was! Good times are short lived as the battle between 7-eleven and Starbucks gets HEATED! Our Sponsors: Mint Mobile - Cut your wireless bill to $15 a month by going to mintmobile.com/tastebuds BetterHelp - [Sal Vulcano & Joe Derosa …
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We have an all new episode today, and we are so excited to be kicking it off with two of our good friends, Antonio Diaz and Casey Felton, who launched a Kickstarter for their new series Fire The Menu. We chat about the current landscape of cooking shows, how they met, and what they hope to do and say with their new show. Then we head to London, whe…
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Catastrophic wartime casualties and postwar discomfort with the successes of women who had served in combat roles combined to shatter prewar ideals about what service meant for Soviet masculine identity. The soldier had to be re-imagined and resold to a public that had just emerged from the Second World War, and a younger generation suspicious of s…
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Characters and characterization are a key ingredient for interpreting the Bible, and perhaps no other book in the Bible is so full of challenging and outlandish characters as the book of Judges. From Ehud, the left-handed assassin to the zany adventures of Samson, the characters in Judges are memorable indeed. Join as we talk with Benjamin Johnson …
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What is the status of art and culture in a world dominated by apps, algorithms, and influencers? Anna Kornbluh’s newest book Immediacy, Or the Style of Too Late Capitalism (Verso, 2023) analyzes a swath of cultural forms from auto-fiction to Netflix binges and immersive art installations. For Kornbluh, neoliberalism’s economic disintermediation man…
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Emily Barth Isler is the author of AfterMath, an award-winning middle grade novel, and of the forthcoming picture book Always Enough Love. In our interview, we celebrate the publication of her second middle grade novel, The Color of Sound (Carolrhoda Books, 2024), the story of Rosie, a musical prodigy with synesthesia. We talk about her transformat…
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World War II and the Holocaust have been the subject of many remarkable stories of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles during the Holocaust (Simon & Schuster, 2024) is unique. It tells the previously unknown story of “Countess Janina Suchodolska,” a courageous Jewish woman who rescued…
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In Brenda Novak's latest book, Tourist Season (Mira Books, 2024), Ismay Chalmers' plans to spend a relaxing summer at the beach are derailed when she discovers the wealthy family she is marrying into is hiding many scandals and secrets. Ismay is ready for a relaxing summer reconnecting with her fiance at his family's luxurious beachfront cottage. B…
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In their edited volume Veil Obsessed: Representations in Literature, Art, and Media (Syracuse University Press, 2024), Umme Al-wazedi and Afrin Zeenat complicate discussions of the veil and highlight the prevalent anxieties surrounding it. The edited volume is unique in its focus and engagement of the veil as it appears in various literary, artisti…
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In the sixteenth century, members of the Ouchi family were kings in all but name in much of Japan. Immensely wealthy, they controlled sea lanes stretching to Korea and China, as well as the Japanese city of Yamaguchi, which functioned as an important regional port with a growing population and a host of temples and shrines. The family was unique in…
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Dismissed as ‘Mrs Sherlock Holmes’ or amateurish Miss Marples, mocked as private dicks or honey trappers, they have been investigating crime since the mid-nineteenth century – everything from theft and fraud to romance scams and murder. In Private Inquiries: The Secret History of Female Sleuths (The History Press, 2023), Caitlin Davies traces the h…
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In the wake of the devastating WWI, three Jews headed the most valuable territory in the British Empire in addition to a strategically important new addition. Edwin Montagu held the position of Secretary of State for India, Rufus Isaacs (Lord Reading) was the newly appointed Viceroy of India, and Herbert Samuel arrived in Jerusalem as the first Hig…
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Listen to Episode No.9 of All We Mean, a Special Focus of this podcast. All We Mean is an ongoing discussion and debate about how we mean and why. The guests on today's episode are Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis, professors at the University of Illinois; and joining us, as well, is James Gee, Regents Professor and Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Profess…
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Hemispheric foreign policy has waxed and waned since the Mexican War, and the Cold War presented both extraordinary promises and dangerous threats to U.S.-Latin American cooperation. In Hemispheric Alliances: Liberal Democrats and Cold War Latin America (UNC Press, 2022), Andrew J. Kirkendall examines the strengths and weaknesses of new models for …
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In the mid-2010s, a passionate community of Los Angeles-based storytellers, media artists, and tech innovators formed around virtual reality (VR), believing that it could remedy society’s ills. Lisa Messeri offers an ethnographic exploration of this community, which conceptualized VR as an “empathy machine” that could provide glimpses into diverse …
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Ukraine Vis-à-Vis Russia and the EU: Misperceptions of Foreign Challenges in Times of War, 2014-2015 (Ibidem Press, 2023) investigates the making of Ukraine’s foreign policy towards the European Union and Russia between February 2014 and February 2015. To contextualize the events of the first year of the Russian-Ukrainian War, Nychyk lays out the h…
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Exploring how climate change has configured the international arena since the 1950s, Climate Change and International History: Negotiating Science, Global Change, and Environmental Justice (Bloomsbury, 2024) by Dr. Ruth A. Morgan reveals the ways that climate change emerged and evolved as an international problem, and how states, scientists and non…
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Custom was fundamental to mediaeval legal practice. Whether in a property dispute or a trial for murder, the aggrieved and accused would go to lay court where cases were resolved according to custom. What custom meant, however, went through a radical shift in the mediaeval period. Between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, custom went from being…
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Bigfoot is an instantly recognizable figure. Through the decades, this elusive primate has been featured in movies and books, on coffee mugs, beer koozies, car polish, and CBD oil. Which begs the question: what is it about Bigfoot that's caught hold of our imaginations? Journalist and self-diagnosed skeptic John O'Connor is fascinated by Sasquatch.…
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