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Photograph of people operating an African American soul food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. There are three people behind a counter that has various warming trays filled with food. There is a woman in front waiting for her food to be served.

On Food & Education: Scott Alves Barton

    • Education
Scott Alves Barton is a cultural anthropologist of African diasporic food ways. His goal is to provide tools for engagement to allow people to have agency in knowledge acquisition, decision-making and autonomy about their food.
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On Food & Education: Johanna Mendelson Forman

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Johanna Mendelson Forman, an expert on international post-conflict transition issues, explains her educational hub Conflict Cuisine and the role of gastrodiplomacy as a tool for peace.
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On Food & Education: Elizabeth Yorke

    • Education
Chef turned food researcher Elizabeth Yorke talks about fostering thought, conversation and learning about the Indian food system through the kitchen.
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On Food & Education: Devin O’Sullivan

    • Education
Devin O’Sullivan, food provocateur & founder of the social enterprise FEAST, is working to improve food education right across Ireland, one classroom at a time.
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On Food & Education: Lenore Newman

    • Education
Five questions on food and education for food geographer, food security expert and government advisor Lenore Newman.
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With Reverence

    • Community
    • Kitchen
    • Legacy
    • Makers
"When we eat certain foods, understand where they come from and all the nuances that make them what they are, we become active participants in their survival." An essay by food writer Nicholas Gill.
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Lyutenitsa Queens

    • Agency
    • Agriculture
    • Community
    • Kitchen
    • Legacy
    • Makers
An urban-rural conversation about growing and preserving, heritage pink tomatoes, food festivals, UNESCO and good neighbourliness in Bulgaria.
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No Cookery Books

    • Kitchen
    • Community
    • Legacy
    • Viewpoint
Food connects through time, cultures, community and adversity. A conversation with cookery writer and scholar Claudia Roden about discovering identity and collective belonging through food.
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Pishogues, Brídeogs and Butter Witches

    • Community
    • Agriculture
    • Legacy
Caitríona Nic Philibín is helping to correct the gastro-critical record with her research on food customs in the Irish folkloric tradition. David Mellerick Lynch investigates.
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