If you’ve been keeping up with Meant To Be Eaten, you know that our last few seasons were produced in collaboration with Gastronomica, the Journal for Food Studies.Gastronomica now has its very own feed on the Heritage Radio Network where they

What to Read Now: Melissa Fuster's Caribeños at the Table

Nov 28th, 2021 39m 14s

This episode is part of a collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, hosted by editorial collective member Jaclyn Rohel. Jaclyn shares some new and soon-to-be published titles in food studies and is joined by her Gastronomic

Stephen Velasquez on Art and Activism

Nov 21st, 2021 33m 17s

This episode is part of a collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Paula Johnson. In this episode, curator Stephen Velasquez discusses how activism and food history come to

Sucharita Kanjilal on Tomatoes and Taste-making in Indian Recipes

Nov 14th, 2021 34m 29s

This episode is part of a collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Krishnendu Ray. The tomato is a staple ingredient in Indian subcontinental cooking, but this is a relati

Aya H. Kimura on Pickling: Histories of Tsukemono

Nov 7th, 2021 44m 27s

This episode is part of a collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Daniel Bender. Aya H. Kimura unpacks the biocultural history of tsukemono (Japanese pickles). She discus

Benjamin Schrager on Risk, Regulation, and Raw Chicken in Japan

Oct 31st, 2021 36m 45s

This episode is part of a collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member James Farrer. Geographer Benjamin Schrager talks about his new article, “Risky but Raw: On (Not) Regulat

Raúl Matta and Padma Panchapakesan on Dining Out: Changing Values of Good Taste

Oct 24th, 2021 37m 28s

This episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Josée Johnston. Raúl Matta and Padma Panchapakesan discuss how ideas of "good taste" h

Gastronomica: The Next Issue

Jun 20th, 2021 52m 22s

This episode offers a sneak peek behind the scenes at Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies. Lisa Haushofer hosts a roundtable live from the 2021 Food Studies conference, Just Food: Because It Is Never Just Food. Editors from the Gastronom

Chicken Politics

Jun 13th, 2021 40m 37s

This episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Melissa Fuster. Michaël Bruckert explores meat industrialization in South India. Reco

When the Rainbows Bring the Crawfish

Jun 8th, 2021 35m 22s

This episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Paula Johnson. V. Constanza Ocampo-Raeder explores human-nature relationships through

Japanese Immigrants’ Pantry

May 23rd, 2021 35m 37s

This episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Bob Valgenti. Eric Funabashi discusses Japanese immigrants' culinary experiences in Br

What to Read Now

May 17th, 2021 28m 10s

This episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Jaclyn Rohel. Jaclyn is joined by her colleague, anthropologist Janita Van Dyk, to int

Race in American Food Television

May 10th, 2021 35m 23s

This episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Krishnendu Ray. Alison Hope Alkon and Rafi Grosglik discuss representations of race in

Well Rooted: A Gastronomica Interview with Chef Rob Connoley

May 3rd, 2021 48m 38s

This episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Daniel Bender. Chef Rob Connoley discusses culinary collaboration and the roots of Oza

Ketchup as a Vegetable: Condiments and the Politics of School Lunch in Reagan’s America

Feb 21st, 2021 38m 27s

This episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, guest hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Melissa Fuster. Historian Amy Bentley returns to the show to discuss the politic

Lunch Interrupted! COVID-19 and Japan’s School Meals

Feb 14th, 2021 30m 58s

This episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, guest hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Jessica Carbone. Alexis Agliano Sanborn explores how Japan's school lunch progra

Rumor, Chinese Diets, and COVID-19: Questions and Answers about Chinese Food and Eating Habits

Feb 7th, 2021 33m 3s

This episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, guest hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Krishnendu Ray. Historians Michelle T. King and Wendy Jia-Chen Fu discuss the st

Paqueteros and Paqueteras: Humanizing a Dehumanized Food System

Jan 31st, 2021 44m 4s

This episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies , guest hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Jaclyn Rohel. Alyshia Gálvez explores

Feeding the City, Pandemic and Beyond

Jan 24th, 2021 41m 16s

This episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, guest hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Bob Valgenti. Bryan Dale and Jo Sharma share a COVID-19 dispatch from Toronto, C

Around the World in 50 Restaurants: The Curious Irony of Hyperlocal Food

Jan 17th, 2021 34m 17s

This episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, guest hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Daniel Bender. John Broadway problematizes how a global restaurant ranking syste

Decoding Miracle Food Cures for COVID-19

Nov 29th, 2020 27m 17s

This episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies , guest hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Lisa Haushofer. Adrienne Bitar investigates the many miracle food cures for COV

Salmon on the Table

Nov 22nd, 2020 41m 33s

This episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, guest hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Melissa Fuster. John Gifford discusses salmon and sustainability, drawing from h

The Food and COVID-19 NYC Archive: Mapping the Pandemic’s Effect on Food in Real Time

Nov 15th, 2020 34m 33s

This episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, guest hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Jaclyn Rohel. Amy Bentley and Stephanie Borkowsky discuss The Food and COVID-19

Taste as Governor: Soy Sauce in Late Chosŏn and Colonial Korea

Nov 8th, 2020 33m 48s

This episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, guest hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Krishnendu Ray.Kyoungjin Bae, as part of a Gastronomica round table on Taste and

Mexicans in Chicago

Nov 1st, 2020 28m 29s

This episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies https://online.ucpress.edu/gastronomica. This episode offers new understandings of the food desert. In the case of Mexican Chicago, the i