Food on the Homefront

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SPONSOR: We kick off the Walkers Shortbread Giveaway with details of how to sign up for Eat Feed Read and win a tin of shortbread.

THEN: Rachel Laudan, PhD in the history and philosophy of science and culinary historian, takes us back in time to food on the homefront during World War II in Britain. We discuss Victory Gardens and allotments, rationing, and the effect of sugar on post-war cuisine.

NOW:Jennifer Wilkins is a Senior Extension Associate at Cornell University and currently a Food and Society Policy Fellow in the Division of Nutritional Science. She has worked on the Farm to School program and The Northeast Regional Food Guide, and talks with us about her ideas on Food Citizenship as well as how to keep to our food supply secure from attack.

RECIPE: Anne cooks up Slow Braised Pork with Black Grapes and Balsamic from the October 2005 issue of Bon Appetit in her great grandmother's WWI oven crockery. Made with pork shoulder, it's the perfect dinner-party-on-a-budget dish. Cooking for one or two, it lasts for days. Sauteed spinach makes the perfect accompaniment.

DRINK: We open up the discussion to listeners. Email Anne your ideas about drinks on the homefront or drinks related to war in one way or another. We'll post the responses on our website.

THANKS: Our sponsor, Walkers Shortbread. Everyone at the Duke Podcasting Symposium. Sam Levin and Griffin for the On Tour Portable Music Box, lapel mic, and iTalk microphone. Michael Geoghagen of Grape Radio for Podcast Solutions. Marc and Bill, the Wizards of Technology for their assistance with our sound set-up. Check out the Eat Feed video of Mia Littlejohn from the conference on J. D. Lasica’s New Media Musings blog, and check out his Our Media site as well.

Music Credits (all from garageband.com)

MicB and Dr. V, War

Darren Lock, Forever Autumn

The Lucky Baby Band, After Dinner Drink