In recent years we have
become a food obsessed culture, with chefs emerging as celebrities, cooking
competitions dominating TV ratings, and restaurants becoming travel
destinations in their own right. But as much as food has become a source of
great pleasure and celebration, we are also learning more about how intertwined
it is with our health, environment, educational achievement, sustainability,
and quality of life.
In 2016
I’ll be launching a podcast based on a series of three-way conversations that
explore the connections between food and so many other matters important to our
lives.
Each of the
conversations will include a social change agent and someone from the culinary
world – a chef, restaurateur, or food entrepreneur - and affords an opportunity to think in an
even more expansive way about the role food plays in in social change. Why did
Jose Andres end up working with the UN Foundation in Haiti? Why is James Beard award nominee Bryan
Voltaggio spending time not only in the kitchen but in elementary schools, and
testifying before the state legislature?
Today, more than ever,
the salad you eat, or the steak you carve, may have broader implications for
your hometown or reaching halfway around the globe. If you want to understand that better, if you
want to do something about it, look for our forthcoming conversations.
Recording With Mike McCurry and Seth Goldman
