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Point of Origin

Point of Origin is about the world of food, worldwide. Each week we travel to different countries exploring culture through food, examining its past and present, and what it teaches us about who we ar... Read more

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Farming While Black Part 2

Farming While Black Part 2

On matters of African Americans and farming, many narratives have centered the ways in which enslavement, and an assumed... Read more

10 Oct 2019

41mins

Ranked #2

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Farming While Black

Farming While Black

On matters of African Americans and farming, many narratives have centered the ways in which enslavement, and an assumed... Read more

3 Oct 2019

54mins

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From a Flower

From a Flower

All fruit come from flowers, but not all flowers become fruit. Once you start to see the two as the same, the world of b... Read more

22 Aug 2019

1hr 3mins

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Cider Coast to Coast

Cider Coast to Coast

Cider in the United States is having an explosive moment. Bolstered by a new generation of growers in California and New... Read more

26 Sep 2019

57mins

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Earthenware Cooking: Japan | Greece

Earthenware Cooking: Japan | Greece

When we think about food origins, often we talk about the movement of people, plants, animals and ideas. But the study o... Read more

19 Sep 2019

45mins

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Rice and Resilience Part 1

Rice and Resilience Part 1

When we talk about terroir, it’s usually in the context of wine, and the human and environmental conditions that influen... Read more

29 Aug 2019

45mins

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Tea Time: Ceylon, Oolong, and Assam

Tea Time: Ceylon, Oolong, and Assam

Travel with us to the rolling hills of Sri Lanka and the high mountains of Taiwan to sample teas and learn about their o... Read more

4 Mar 2020

37mins

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Korean Food and Modernity

Korean Food and Modernity

Guided by the stories of Sonja Swanson, Seoyung Chung of Bburi Kitchen and Ji Hye Kim of Ms Kim restaurant, this episode... Read more

11 Mar 2020

38mins

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Naija! Examining Nigerian Food

Naija! Examining Nigerian Food

Point of Origin Season 2 kicks off by honoring Black History Month. We’re exploring Nigerian foodways, what Naija is and... Read more

26 Feb 2020

48mins

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Pan-African Libations: Anomalies and Disrupters

Pan-African Libations: Anomalies and Disrupters

Ntsiki Biyela was the first black woman in South Africa to become a winemaker. Andre Mack was the first to be awarded th... Read more

12 Sep 2019

1hr 10mins

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Natural Wine: It’s Alive!

Natural Wine: It’s Alive!

Natural wine is farmed organically biodynamically, using permaculture, and made without adding or removing anything in t... Read more

18 Mar 2020

23mins

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Rice and Resilience Part 2: The Story of Manoomin

Rice and Resilience Part 2: The Story of Manoomin

The sacred wild rice that grows on the water. ​Hundreds of years ago, the people called the Anishinabek, were visited by... Read more

5 Sep 2019

54mins

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Indigenous Foodways: The Decolonized Diet

Indigenous Foodways: The Decolonized Diet

Recent media attention surrounding native indigenous foodways has brought to light what a decolonized diet means. This i... Read more

29 Apr 2020

50mins

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A New, New Nordic?

A New, New Nordic?

Over last 20 years, there is perhaps no name more important in the world of contemporary dining culture than Chef René R... Read more

22 Apr 2020

45mins

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Culinary Commodities

Culinary Commodities

Did you know that the coconut is one of the only seafaring, self-propagating crops? Or that most of the world’s olive oi... Read more

16 Apr 2020

45mins

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