Heritage Radio Network On Tour

Heritage Radio Network’s Nora Peachin is traveling the world for one year in search of communities organizing to make our food systems more equitable, and she’s bringing you along with her. In the first episode of the series, Nora visits Italy to learn about the right to food and food charity.

Further Reading:

See the complete United Nations Right to Food Team’s voluntary guidelines here.

To learn more about Community Food Centers Canada, visit their website or check out The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement, a book by Nick Saul and Andrea Curtis, his wife.

Here you can read about the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact, Milan’s Food Policy office, and Caritas Italiana.

Other texts that have greatly informed this episode include Janet Poppendieck’s Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement, Graham Riches and Tiina Silvasti’s First World Hunger Revisited: Food Charity or the Right to Food, Andrew Fisher’s Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups, and Molly Anderson’s research on food justice and the right to food.

Nora’s research is funded through a grant from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation. The Watson Foundation offers one-year independent research fellowships for graduating college seniors.

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The Slow Food USA team made their first trek back to the nonprofit’s roots in Italy since the onset of the pandemic for Terra Madre Salon Del Gusto. The organization’s Executive Director, Anna Mulè and Communications Director, Brian Solem join Dylan Heuer to talk about their thematic focal point for this year’s festival: joy and justice. They reflect on how joy, justice, and food intersect in their own lives and discuss what programs in service of this goal are capturing their attention right now. Plus, they share stories of memorable exchanges and great bites at Terra Made this year.

HRN is back "On Tour" thanks , in part, to the generous support of the Julia Child Foundation.

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Beatrice Ughi founded Gustiamo more than 20 years ago in The Bronx with the goal of introducing New Yorkers to “real” Italian food. Her importing business disrupted existing models by serving consumers directly (in addition to retailers and restaurants). She talks with Dylan Heuer about why it took until later in life to appreciate her native country’s foodways, how sharing the stories of Italian makers helps differentiate authentic products from misleading labels, and what her four year quest to find the perfect pasta entailed.

HRN is back "On Tour" thanks , in part, to the generous support of the Julia Child Foundation.

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Umar Bashir Ochen is a young activist and member of the Karamojong tribe of Indigenous shepherds located in north-east Uganda. The Karamojong people face daily challenges including hunger caused by climate change, land grabbing, and a lack of food sovereignty. In conversation with Dylan Heuer, he talks about his culture and how it’s been threatened over the course of his lifetime. He discusses the organizing efforts he has led to introduce agroecology practices, start a farmers' market, and create local, national, and even international connections.

HRN is back "On Tour" thanks , in part, to the generous support of the Julia Child Foundation.

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Carlo Nesler was born and raised in Bolzano, Italy. He has been interested in cooking and fermenting food since he was a boy, but what started as a hobby became an expertise. Carlo hosts workshops on fermented foods in Italy and abroad, collaborates with chefs, restaurants and food producers to create fermented food products, and he translated Wild Fermentation by Sandor Katz into Italian. He sits down with Dylan Heuer for a conversation about biodiversity, regeneration, and microbiomes. Plus he talks about Italian fermented foods, shares why he thinks fermentation can’t be taught on Zoom, and describes the satisfaction that comes along with making something with your hands.

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Karina Ocampo is a Buenos Aires-based journalist and the author of La Ruta Del Maíz, a book documenting her journey, and the journey of corn, through Argentina, Bolivia, Peru and Mexico. She joins Dylan Heuer to unpack the juxtaposition at the center of her recent work: in the Americas corn is the cornerstone of the industrial food system and a sacred, traditional ingredient to many Indigenous people. She talks about how these two worlds collide, shares stories from her year of traveling, and discusses the intersection of food and feminism.

HRN is back "On Tour" thanks , in part, to the generous support of the Julia Child Foundation.

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Rupa Marya is a physician, activist, artist and writer. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, founder and director of the Deep Medicine Circle, and co-author of Inflamed: Deep Medicine and The Anatomy of Injustice. She sits down with Dylan Heuer to discuss the connections she sees between colonization and contemporary afflictions like the disproportionate harm caused by Covid-19. She draws on Indigenous knowledge to advocate for a more holistic approach to wellbeing that includes treating farmers as stewards of our health and involving doctors in social justice organizing.

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In this magical moment, captured at HRN's First Annual Catskills Field Day in Bovina, NY, Amy Halloran somehow finds her way into the dreams of Rip Van Winkle himself. Amy presents Mr. Van Winkle with some of the stories that have been written about himself. Rip takes the opportunity to fact-check some of those stories and share how some boozy bowlers got him in deep trouble. Will Rip success in waking up? It's a story so powerful it could rip the scales right off of a fish!

Special thanks to Scott Hill for welcoming us to Putt Putt Van Winkle this weekend.

HRN is back "On Tour" thanks , in part, to the generous support of the Julia Child Foundation.

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On August 27th & 28th, 2022, HRN hosted its First Annual Catskills Field Day: a two day celebration of the foodways of the Catskills and Hudson Valley. Our final event was a fresh flour pancake breakfast at Putt Putt Van Winkle, with pancakes by baker and educator Amy Halloran.

In this episode, Amy sits down to interview Sarah Litvin, PhD, the Executive Director of the Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History. Sarah shares the some highlights of the Reher Center's work in Kingston, NY, including past and upcoming exhibits. Before they get to the present, they also cover the past, as the Reher Center building served as a prominent Jewish Bakery for nearly a century. Kingston residents of the surrounding Rondout neighborhood, mostly working class and immigrant, came to Reher’s for bread, canned goods, and gossip.

Today, the site is as a museum and cultural center that preserves and honors the legacy of Reher's Bakery and amplifies immigrant stories of the Hudson Valley, past and present. The Reher Center's mission is to foster belonging by engaging all people through culture, community, work, and bread.

The Reher Center Gallery is open from 1-6pm on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

About Our Guest Host, Amy Halloran: A writer and change agent, Amy works to add social values and economic viability to farms, cities, families, the emergency feeding system, and communities. Her love for pancakes led her to write a book about flour, THE NEW BREAD BASKET: How the New Crop of Grain Growers, Plant Breeders, Millers, Maltsters, Bakers, Brewers, and Local Food Activists Are Redefining Our Daily Loaf. She lives in Troy, New York, and works with the Artisan Grain Collaborative in the Upper Midwest, and the Northeast Grainshed to create networks that support regional grains. Amy loves to create bridges between ideas and people through food.

HRN is back "On Tour" thanks , in part, to the generous support of the Julia Child Foundation.

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In late August 2022, HRN hosted its First Annual Catskills Field Day: a two-day celebration of the foodways of the Catskills and Hudson Valley. One of our first events was a guided mushroom foraging expedition with Erwin Karl of CatskillFungi.

In this episode of On Tour, HRN's Executive Director Caity Moseman Wadler sits down with Erwin to continue exploring the world of mushrooms. They discuss some of the treasures that the foragers found that morning while walking the property of Cycle X Farm in Andes, NY, before tackling a number of related topics including how to become involved with foraging, mushroom cultivation, and the work of CatskillFungi.

HRN is back "On Tour" thanks, in part, to the generous support of the Julia Child Foundation.

HRN On Tour is powered by Simplecast.