The Secret Ingredient
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Hope: Frances Moore Lappé
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“[Hope] is a key source of energy to enable us to seek solutions together.” -Frances Moore Lappé Hope is different from faith in that we ...
Guam
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“We’re fighting for a worldview. We’re fighting for a different version of what it means to be human on the planet. We’re figh...
Each Others: Rita Valencia and Charlotte Sáenz
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“How do we build these understandings from a decolonial, antiracist and antipatriarchal basis? How do we build real solidarity bridges that do n...
COVID-19 Series: Rob Wallace
01 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Secret Ingredient with KUT’s Rebecca McInroy, Raj Patel author of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, and food and agriculture cor...
Politics and The Green New Deal: Ben Lilliston
07 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“The climate crisis is an emergency, it is a crisis and so we need to make major, major changes in our agriculture system.” Ben Lilliston is the D...
The Green New Deal for Agriculture: Jim Goodman and Raj Patel
22 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“We need to change society so everybody can fit in and everyone can afford to live in a decarbonized society.” – Jim Goodman In th...
The Green New Deal in Texas: Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Explore the future of the Green New Deal and what it means for Texas with Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez. Tzintzún is challenging John Cornyn for the 202...
Social Movement: Naomi Klein
11 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Secret Ingredient with KUT’s Rebecca McInroy, Raj Patel, author of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, and food and agriculture co...
TSI Live: The Green New Deal
27 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Secret Ingredient with KUT’s Rebecca McInroy, Raj Patel, author of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, and food and agriculture corres...
Trailer: Season 3–The Green New Deal
25 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Season 3 of The Secret Ingredient will focus on The Green New Deal (GND). Listen this season as Raj Patel, Tom Philpott and Rebecca McInroy discu...
Economic Man
26 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Secret Ingredient is “Economic Man.” Swedish economist Katrine Marçal, author of “Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner?” ...
Prison Labor on Farms
05 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Secret Ingredient is “Prison Labor on Farms.” You might not expect where prison-produced food may show up! Listen back as agriculture ...
Solidarity (Ep. 35)
02 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Secret Ingredient is “Solidarity.” Listen back as Raj Patel, Tom Philpott and Rebeca McInroy talk with organizers Hodaliz Borrayes, Di...
Communes (Ep. 34)
01 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Joshua Eisenman author of Red China’s Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development Under the C...
Mushrooms (Ep. 33)
20 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“We just assume our everyday normal consciousness is the one and the most accurate…there are unseen worlds, there are unseen forces, and you can l...
Eliminating Tipping in Austin?
11 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Rebecca McInroy and Tom Philpott of The Secret Ingredient Podcast talk with restaurateurs Adam Orman from L’Oca d’Oro, Jodi Mozeika ...
Decolonization (Ep. 32)
27 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“We can’t even talk about decolonizing our medicine until we talk about decolonizing our food.” –Rupa Marya On this edition ...
Special: Pesticides, Science, and Subterfuge
29 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1970s Monsanto unveiled a miracle herbicide–Glyphosate. The pitch: it was as safe as table salt for people, but could flatten even the pe...
Update
24 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This is just a note to let you know what we’re up to with the podcast. We have a three-part piece on the herbicide glyphosate coming out soon, a...
Democracy (Ep. 31)
10 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“Our enemy is apathy.” –Yanis Varoufakis In 2015 today’s guests were propelled onto the global stage by their efforts to take on the ...
Cheap Food (Ep. 30)
17 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“[Reparation Ecology] is an invitation to observe these big transformations as reparation. Moving away from capitalism moving toward something m...
Tomatoes: Coalition of Immokalee Workers (Ep. 29)
30 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“The work we do is too important to the nation. We are the people who make it possible for every meal to exist. We feed the nation and we ask, h...
Sidney Mintz (Extended Interview)
22 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“Most of all I would like more coming to terms with what happened…I think what needs to be done is for all of my fellow citizens in this c...
Land Reform: Suzan Erem (Ep. 28)
07 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“We have to do something to take us off this treadmill of ratcheting up land prices.” -Suzan Erem, The Sustainable Iowa Land Trust On the ...
Strawberries: Julie Guthman (Ep 27.)
14 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“Strawberries is kind of the quintessence of industrial agriculture in California. It’s the fifth highest value crop in the state. It also...
Seed Saving: Janet Maro (Ep. 26)
10 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“Life begins with the seed germinating…we depend on seed and most of the seed is the seed we will produce, have it, save and use in the next plant...
Nutritionism: Aya Kimura (Ep. 25)
10 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
James Baldwin said, “the purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.” When considering this sentimen...
V&B Extra: Food and Trump’s Border Wall
28 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Lorano Long Conference brought many great thinkers and activists to the campus of The University of Texas in February to talk about, “New Pe...
Nutrition: Joan Gussow (Ep. 24)
27 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“Once in a while, I thin I’ve had an original thought, then I look and read around and realize Joan said it first.” -Michael Pollan ...
Tips: Saru Jayaraman (Ep. 23)
11 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“Building unity across divide is possible. Building something even better than we had before, out of terrible tragedy, is possible. A movement f...
Op-Ed Teaching Public Policy In A Trump Administration: James K. Galbraith
21 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
From The New Deal until the present moment the architecture of The United States formed around some basic principles of public policy; principles that...
Ethnic Food: Krishnendu Ray (Ep. 22)
19 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Krishnendu Ray is the chair of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University, and author of The Ethnic Restaurateur. Raj Patel, Tom Philpott and R...
(Bush) Tea: Annalee Davis (Ep. 21)
29 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
“The history of slavery in the Caribbean is traumatic. It’s a difficult legacy and I don’t think that it’s been well processed...
Spin: Anna Lappé (Ep. 20)
08 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
“There isn’t a single aspect of what we eat that is not touched by industry spin.” -Anna Lappé There are so many logistical barrier...
TSI Extra – Hoover Alexander [Part Two]
03 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Explore the past, present and future of food in Austin with local legend Hoover Alexander alongside the hosts of The Secret Ingredient (Raj Patel, Tom...
TSI Extra – Hoover Alexander [Part One]
03 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Explore the past, present and future of food in Austin with local legend Hoover Alexander alongside the hosts of The Secret Ingredient (Raj Patel, Tom...
Sugar Op-Ed: James K. Galbraith
26 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The story of sugar in the Western world is sordid and bitter, however this past gets quickly candy coated in our day-to-day lives as consumers. In thi...
School Food: Alexa Delwiche (Ep. 19)
10 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
“As the food movement has gotten stronger and stronger, and people have been asking many more questions, not just about, where is my food coming fro...
TSI Live: Feeding Austin’s Hungry
13 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this special edition of Views & Brews, KUT’s Rebecca McInroy joins the hosts of The Secret Ingredient, Raj Patel and Tom Philpott, as the...
Whiteness: Breeze Harper (Ep. 18)
06 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
“America was built on a white supremacist caste system which centers whiteness as the norm…”-Dr. A. Breeze Harper On this edition of the Secret ...
TSI Weekend: Zika
12 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
“If you divorce economy from ecology then you end up crumbling the mechanisms by which the forest has typically been able to keep the worst of t...
Cotton: Sven Beckert (Ep. 17)
10 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Cotton. Not quite a food item, but a plant nonetheless with a rather complicated history and an enduring relevance in our lives. Today, a typical day ...
TSI Weekend: Nationalism
02 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
“It is the most artificial thing that humans have ever built,” says Appadurai of nationalism. “That seems the most natural.” In this edition o...
Breast Milk: Kimberly Seals Allers (Ep. 16)
27 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
“When it comes to breastfeeding the ideal of choice verses the illusion of choice are two very different things,” argues Kimberly Seals Al...
Pathogens: Rob Wallace (Ep. 15)
11 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Secret Ingredient we talk with Rob Wallace, author of “Big Farms Make Big Flu: Dispatches on Infectious Disease, Agribusiness...
Nationalism: Arjun Appadurai (Ep. 14)
10 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
People are interesting animals. We look to many things to help us understand our place and identity in this world. We have maps, passports, languages,...
V&B – The Past, Present, and Future of The Greek Economy
05 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Views & Brews, KUT’s Rebecca McInroy joins the hosts of KUT’s The Secret Ingredient podcast, Tom Philpott and Raj Pate...
The Peasantry: Blain Snipstal (Ep. 13)
15 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Raj Patel, Tom Philpott and Rebecca McInroy talk with peasant farmer Blain Snipstal about the history of agriculture and racism in America, power, foo...
SXSW: Tech & The Future of Food
11 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this special SXSW edition of The Secret Ingredient, Tom Philpott, Rebecca McInroy and Raj Patel talk about technologies that will shape the future...
Quinoa: Tanya Kerssen (Ep. 12)
06 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
“While no one would argue that Bolivian farmers shouldn’t get a good price for their crop, these trends cannot be ignored—or left up to glob...
V&B – The Secret Ingredient – The Future of Food
25 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this special The Secret Ingredient edition of Views & Brews, KUT’s Rebecca McInroy joins Tom Philpott, food and agriculture writer for M...
Golden Rice: Glenn Davis Stone (Ep. 11)
13 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What is Golden Rice? If you know the answer to that question chances are you have a strong opinion on it. That is because a lot of the rhetoric swirli...
Hot Peppers: Gary Nabhan (Ep. 10)
24 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this edition of The Secret Ingredient we talk with Gary Nabhan, author of: Chasing Chiles – Hot Spots Along the Pepper Trail; Why Some Like It Ho...
Jesus: Fred Bahnson (Ep. 9)
25 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this edition of The Secret Ingredient we talk with Fred Bahnson, author of Soil & Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith, about his s...
Charity: Janet Poppendieck (Ep. 8)
17 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this edition of The Secret Ingredient, we talk with Janet Poppendieck, Professor of Sociology at Hunter College, City University of New York and au...
Salmon: Valerie Segrest (Ep. 7)
26 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
As we observe Thanksgiving in the U.S. The Secret Ingredient takes a step back with this episode on Salmon with Valerie Segrest. Valerie is a native n...
Prison Food: Dan Moshenberg (Ep. 6)
14 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this edition of The Secret Ingredient we talk with Daniel Moshenberg about the wide-ranging impact of food on prisoners in the US prison industri...
Milk: Alissa Hamilton (Ep.5)
03 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this edition of The Secret Ingredient, Rebecca McInroy, Raj Patel and Tom Philpott talk with Dr. Alissa Hamilton about her book, “Got Milked?...
Soda: Marion Nestle (Ep.4)
15 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this edition of The Secret Ingredient, we talk with Marion Nestle about her latest book Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning). She descri...
Bananas: Cynthia Enloe (Ep. 3)
01 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode our secret ingredient is Bananas! We talk with feminist writer and professor Dr. Cynthia Enloe, who’s latest book, Bananas, Beaches ...
Pancakes: Toni-Tipton Martin (Ep. 2)
25 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Views and Brews we’ll tour over 100 years of southern cooking with Toni-Tipton Martin author of The Jemima Code: Two Centu...
Sugar: Sidney Mintz (Ep. 1)
11 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk with anthropologist Sidney Mintz about his seminal work Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar In Modern History. Mintz takes...