| Cooking Up A Story: A Show about People, Food, and Sustainable Living |
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This presentation is a special treat. For those who may not know about the TED Talks, the TED organization presents ongoing talks from the thought leaders of our world. These are people who are not only brilliant, but who devote themselves...
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Farming today is not what we may imagine it to be. It’s become largely an industrial process, and corn epitomizes this shift in production methods. In Part 3, ‘King Corn’ filmmaker Curt Ellis s...
Episode 29
From a very old family recipe, that remains a closely guarded secret, this mustard is hand-made by the Benedictine Sisters at Queen of Angels Monastery. The proceeds help feed a small community of local homeless people, and migra...
This story about Bob Brandon is a story about a new approach to weight loss that seeks to address a complex range of factors to help individuals control their weight, and not gain it back....
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Portland Fruit Tree Project provides a valuable service that helps communities benefit directly from local resources. Fresh fruit that grows on neighborhood trees is collected by volunteers, and dropped off at lo...
Episode 28
Five million family farms have been lost since the 1930's, and most of those surviving farms are not small family operations. As the population of family farmers continues to age, there is a critical shortage of young farmers to...
Episode 27
Cooking garden fresh foods made with love, from mother to daughter, generations of family knowledge passed down through oral tradition trace a living legacy of Lebanese food. Recipes from the episode: Summer Squash With Rice; My ...
Have you ever wanted to live in a tropical paradise with beautiful secluded beaches, and natural jungle? Would you also be willing to endure 4 1/2 meters (yes, 13-1/2 feet) of average annual rainfall, an occasional typhoon, and green tree ...
Episode 26
An inside look at a plant that freezes fresh, and locally produced fruits for use year round. Recipes from the episode: Blueberry Delight Pie; Blueberry Muffins...
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Carlo Petrini, in this final installment, argues for economic respect, and fairness to the small farmers of the world. Economy and ecology, he reminds us, share the same roots, and that it is local economies that...
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Food prices in Europe, and The United States, have gone down markedly since 1970; when the average family spent 32% of their earnings on food, now that figure is 13%. What’s wrong with cheap prices for food...
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According to Carlo Petrini, one of the great challenges we will face in the next few years is to create a sustainable community. Technology and economy should work together in harmony with nature, not interfere w...
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Somewhere on the evolutionary path of life, man came to think of himself as detached from nature. And even more, that nature must be controlled for the benefit of man. Our continued journey down this dark road br...
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Agriculture has by its very nature a system of built-in limitations. But, we have figured out how to bypass many of those limits, and as a result, we pay a terrible cost. In this segment, Carlo Petri...