Science and Health

Kitchen Stories Kitchen Stories

As chroniclers of the secret, unexpected, below-the-radar places Americans prepare and consume their meals, NPR's Kitchen Sisters discovered their microphone has become a kind of s...

Aug 29, 2006 / Feature / The Kitchen Sisters

Doing Lunch Doing Lunch

Ann Cooper, gourmet chef turned healthy school food advocate, talks about becoming a "lunch lady" and what it takes to reform our children's cafeterias.

Aug 27, 2006 / Feature / Anna Lappé

A World Unmoored by War A World Unmoored by War

The United States now spends more in Iraq in a month that the entire world spends on fighting AIDS in a year. Have we reached the point where the terror of AIDS is no match for the...

Aug 25, 2006 / Feature / Stephen Lewis

A Right to Food? A Right to Food?

Hunger is a violation of basic rights: a right to food, but more important, Bolivian and Brazilian experience suggests, a right to power.

Aug 24, 2006 / Feature / Frances Moore Lappé

Black Farms, Black Markets Black Farms, Black Markets

For black farmers, succeeding financially and bringing healthy food to urban markets remains an uphill battle against a lack of business contacts.

Aug 24, 2006 / Feature / Habiba Alcindor

How Harlem Eats How Harlem Eats

Urban restaurateurs, activists and consumers are seeking "food justice," insisting that healthy food shouldn't be a privilege for the wealthy and white.

Aug 24, 2006 / Feature / Mark Winston Griffith

Edible NOLA Edible NOLA

A new charter school is embracing "eco-gastronomy"--a holistic curriculum based around food--hoping "to renew New Orleans one okra plant and one child at a time."

Aug 24, 2006 / Feature / Randy Fertel

Mean or Green? Mean or Green?

Wal-Mart is serious about bringing organic food to the masses, but transportation costs and the retail giant's aggressive competitive ways could end up hurting small farms and the ...

Aug 24, 2006 / Feature / Liza Featherstone

One Thing to Do About Food: A Forum One Thing to Do About Food: A Forum

How do we fix our dysfunctional relationship with food? Alice Waters leads a forum with Eric Schlosser, Marion Nestle, Peter Singer and others, who suggest, for starters, that we...

Aug 24, 2006 / Feature / Jim Hightower, Eric Schlosser, Peter Singer, Eliot Coleman, Vandana Shiva, Carlo Petrini, Winona LaDuke, Elizabeth Ransom, Troy Duster, Wendell Berry, Michael Pollan, and Marion Nestle

Slow Food Nation Slow Food Nation

Fast food is killing us--our environment, our politics and our culture. To change who we are as a nation, we must first change how we eat.

Aug 24, 2006 / Feature / Alice Waters

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