Welcome to FoodLove: The Space between Terroir and the Tao of Food, a Pacific Northwest podcast about the connectivity between food systems, farmers, foodies, food producers, and artists fed by Pacific Northwest terroir and FoodLove friends who are innovating farming and food across the country. Navigate cultures, society, and conversations around race and peace through terroir and food, and see art as a form of resilience and resistance in the face of social injustice. Terroir is comprised of the minerals, moisture, and microorganisms of the land and the influences of the sea, sky, wind, rain, temperature, all undoubtedly impacted by the humans who cultivate what’s best about it. Takeaway our guests’ deep knowledge and inspiration. Maybe eat their food or try their recipes, all the while as we wonder together, “Is world peace through food and a podcast possible?â€
Meet Liz Storm, newly graduated PTHS social justice activist, poet, firefighter apprentice, and wood carver of the Haida tribe, a student teacher/globe-trotter who writes poetry, loves sushi in the FoodFeast program, and is learning the ways of rice.
The Shape of Land is a social justice spoken word piece that acknowledges the genocide of the buffalo and indigenous peoples of the Great Plains. It invites listeners to consider what having daily bread has really cost us as a culture.
Celestial Bodies in Chaos is a social justice spoken word piece that navigates sorrow-filled events and history in a quiet moment of communion with the grand beauty of nature, a story-telling that weaves the cosmos, lives, and death together.
What do wild brethren and the secrets of what tracking them have to do with conservation? Sarah Spaeth has devoted 25 years to the preservation of lands and waters we love as part of her life's legacy. She is also a baker with the mind of a chef.
Meet “fire starter” Chef Arran Stark. He put “hospitality” into Port Townsend's Jefferson Healthcare “hospital” with flair. He wants a new kind of cooking school for our destination- hotel-tourist-and-agrarian economy where terroir is at its core.
This spoken word tribute to a handful of slain Asian Americans and elements of my Chinese-Filipino American heritage begins with appreciation for a scallion.Nothing Wastedpoem by Rufina C. Garay
What gives southern comfort food its soul? Grace Love talks about Nadine's Kitchen, the interplay of food and memories, and explains what comfort cooking means to her. Her kitchen has new digs and wheels for more mobile Love and is awaiting a new team!
What's the fuss about game hunting, meat-eating vs. laboratory-made, plant-based food, the pandemic and the food industry, and the Tao of Food? Listen to Francis Tapon, WanderLearn podcast host and author of Hike Your Own Hike and make up your own mind.
How do food, culture, and travel intersect? Listen to Francis Tapon, podcast host of WanderLearn and Hike Your Own Hike. We volley questions at each other and catch up on the two decades in which he traveled to more than 120 countries.
Meet Will Harris, cowboy, regenerative farmer, and animal and land steward of White Oak Pastures. He has some sage advice for all farmers and Bill Gates who is amassing farmland in the U.S.
Meet Sue from The Cocoa Forge, an alchemist of cocoa beans from around the globe. Revel in her pursuit to make the highest quality chocolate that expresses terroir as beautifully as fine wines. Learn how cocoa beans will soon sail into port!
Tables turn as accredited American Culinary Federation Executive Chef Kevin, an Escoffier Culinary Institute instructor, interviews Rufina about her insights into terroir, culinary leadership, and FoodLove.
Meet Jessica Plumb, producer and director of Return of the River, writer and storyteller of scientific secrets of salmon forests, and portraitist of the Elwha River and the centrality of salmon as food and in the culture of the Lower Elwha tribe.
Velda Thomas is a multi-faceted, creative, tour de force--a writer, a sound and somatic healer, poet, and steward of the land in Port Townsend, Washington. Be inspired by her words, her relationship to land, and her reimagined relationship with bees.
Meet Trevor and Lauren Koch as they navigate essential worker transitions from sous chef to grocery deli manager, depression, anxiety, & alcoholism to self-awareness, and identities as White people who believe Black Lives Matter.
Rufina reads “Acting as Though,” her spoken word meditation on Anti-Asian racism and gatekeeping women of excellence who fuel rage, a taboo emotion. The act of defiance is to share it and still pray for peace informed by land, sea and fruit trees.
Meet Dr. Darshan Elena Campos, a former Stanford professor and current decolonizing activist. Through indigenous ways, she heals herself from domestic violence and marginalized communities through land, seeds, trees, and business in Borikén.
Listen to Jamestown S'Klallam tribe's Mackenzie Grinnell, a Two Hooligans cider businessman. He teaches high schoolers traditional foods and ancestral love of landscape despite tragedy in a shared U.S. history marked by separation.
Rufina talks with Adrian Chitty, a former IT guru turned artist-photographer. His artist-in-residency captured the making of wine at Rex Hill in Newberg, Oregon. Adrian discusses his unique portrait of wine-making processes.
In this episode of FoodLove, meet Crystie Kisler, femme phenom of the innovative cider beverage business, Finnriver Farm and Cidery. She is the visionary behind many important organizations and movements in food security and land equity.
Join Rufina in this short episode of FoodLove: The Space Between Terroir and the Tao of Food. Learn the meaning behind the title of the podcast and the secret of terroir. She will touch on what to expect of future episodes with experts in the field.
In this first episode of FoodLove, host Rufina Garay interviews Lola Milholland of Umi Organics to talk about yummy soba noodles, curious food systems, and complexity at the intersection of race and food.
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