Where Capitalism Meets America's Foodways. The Food Disruptors brings you the innovators, entrepreneurs, and geniuses who have completely disrupted America’s food system. Co-hosts Theresa Brown and Ruddick Lawrence tell the stories of the big personalities who innovated fundamental changes in America’s agriculture, transportation, food processing, distribution, and culture.
Theresa writes on social history and food. Ruddick is an engineer, a cocktail connoisseur, a savoir-faire in the world of honest, delicious food, and also a curious capitalist. Our foodways have come from subsistence agriculture 200 years ago to a food system with a lot of problems and a lot of promise. Many of our episodes look at the history of how we got here, in a word: Capitalism.
And we talk with amazing Food Disruptors of today who are innovating the way forward for our foodways, finding solutions to nourish everybody without wrecking the planet — in the context of capitalism. We wrap it all up in a big burrito of history, science, culture, egos, profits, food products, and unintended consequences. Join our stories.