Podcast
Feeding People
Hosted by Amy Dolan · EN
The best conversations happen around the table, specifically a table full of food. Each week, join host Amy Dolan and her dinner guests—chefs, pastors, bakers and soup kitchen volunteers—for conversations about the magic of the table. If you've always wanted to host meals but haven't known how, or you host one every night and you're looking for ways to bring greater meaning to what you do, Feeding People is for you.
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Kelly Dolan: A Love for Vegetables
May 8, 202400:45:45Tap to summarizeKelly Dolan, producer of the Feeding People podcast (and host Amy Dolan's husband), joins Amy for a conversation about how his limited food preferences as a child — including a dislike for almost all fruits and vegetables — transformed as an adult into an almost entirely plant-based diet. Kelly shares how his decision to stop eating meat also set the stage for larger decisions he made to address his mental health and overall wellbeing.
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Liz Abunaw: The Magic of a Grocery Store 🅴
May 1, 202400:32:42Tap to summarizeLiz Abunaw, the founder and owner of Forty Acres Fresh Market in Chicago's Austin neighborhood, joins Amy to talk about everything that makes grocery stores great—including "grocery theater," the music that's played, and the ideal size of shopping carts. Liz shares her journey of starting Forty Acres Fresh Market, which broke ground last year and will be the Chicago's first Black female-owned grocery store. In this episode and in her work, Liz challenges the standard narratives around which neighborhoods can support grocery stores, and how Forty Acres can provide neighborhoods like Austin with good food for all.
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Raeghn Draper: The Chicago Hospitality Industry + A Vision Forward 🅴
Apr 24, 202400:33:32Tap to summarizeRaeghn Draper, a Chicago-based community organizer, writer, and hospitality professional, joins Amy to discuss the current state of Chicago's hospitality industry, the history of tipping in America, and how Raeghn's organization, the CHAAD project, is working to advance accountability and end labor abuses within the industry. Raeghn shares their vision for an equitable hospitality industry and practical ways customers can show support when visiting restaurants.
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Elsie DuBray: The Beautiful Buffalo
Apr 17, 202400:36:51Tap to summarizeElsie DuBray, an Oóhenuŋpa Lakxóta, Nueta, and Hidatsa woman and enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Lakxóta Nation, joins Amy to discuss her role in the film Gather, her life growing up on her family's buffalo ranch, and her vision of food sovereignty for her community. Elsie shares the importance of buffalo, and how her work as a community health graduate student at Stanford is leading her towards buffalo restoration and creating a just and beautiful food system for Native people.
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Julia Turshen: Food as Revolution (Encore)
Apr 10, 202400:32:39Tap to summarizeIn this encore episode from 2019, Julia Turshen, bestselling cookbook author, food writer, and food equity advocate, discusses with host Amy Dolan how food can and has changed history. Julia reflects on the writing of her book, Feed the Resistance, and describes the crucial role food played during the Civil Rights Movement and the Stonewall Uprising. She also shares how her Jewish identity informs the way that she views and experiences food and cooking.
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Sebastian White: The Healing Power of Cooking
Apr 3, 202400:31:17Tap to summarizeSebastian White, private chef and Founder and Executive Director of The Evolved Network, joins Amy to discuss his journey from psychotherapist to chef to creator of The Evolved Network. Sebastian shares how he's using the vision of The Evolved Network—a farm to table process—as a means to create space for kids that is both healing and therapeutic, and how he hopes the kids see their infinite possibilities, versus their limitations, when they cook.
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Dr. Evelyn Figueroa: Food Insecurity — A Problem With A Solution
Mar 20, 202400:45:02Tap to summarizeDr. Evelyn Figueroa, Family Physician, Professor at University of Illinois Chicago, Director of Pilsen Food Pantry, and Executive Director of the Figueroa Wu Family Foundation, joins Amy to discuss the social determinants that affect health and poverty, how her personal journey in medicine led to the creation of the food pantry, and the role we all can play in assuring that everyone has the food they need.
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Chloe Keene: Empathy at the Table
Mar 13, 202400:29:39Tap to summarizeChloe Keene, the digital creator behind Chicago Master List, talks with Amy Dolan about using Instagram to highligh restaurants on Chicago's south side, growing in empathy through adventurous eating, and the power of shared meals to connect people with one another.
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Eliana Pinilla: Building Strong Regional Food Systems
Mar 6, 202400:30:20Tap to summarizeEliana Pinilla, Director of Partnerships, Great Lakes Region at The Common Market, discusses with Amy Dolan the need to "connect communities to good food grown by sustainable family farmers." She explains that when institutions get more of their food directly from local farms, the quality of food they serve—and the health and wealth of the entire region—get better. Eliana breaks down how The Common Market helps make it all happen and the vision she has for future generations.
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Laurell Sims: Urban Farms and Building Community
Feb 28, 202400:40:38Tap to summarizeLaurell Sims, Co-Founder and former Co-Executive Director of Urban Growers Collective, talks with Amy Dolan about her journey to creating an eight-site urban farm in Chicago, what it will take to address the problems in the current U.S. food system, and all of the ways local food and farming build community.
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