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Jan 2023
59m 35s

Emotional eating, recipes for future cat...

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Mary Beth Albright discusses the new field of psychology that examines how food and eating are linked to mood. After sitting on a panel with five billionaires, Douglas Rushkoff began exploring how the megarich are preparing for the end of the world. Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft returns with an update on cultured meat. Curators Zane Cerpina and Stahl Stenslie rethink eating habits, challenge food taboos, and explore new recipes for humanity’s survival in a new cookbook. Chef and children’s book author Cybille St. Aude-Tate explains the origins of Haiti’s independence day dish, soup joumou.

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