🎙️ EP134 – 🌱 Henry Obispo is growing a new Bronx. Also known as The Sustainable Papi, this eco-gastronomer is reimagining food systems—one rooftop farm, hot sauce, and mushroom taco at a time. From food apartheid to Afrofuturism, Henry joins Eric in the South Bronx to talk urban agriculture, ancestral eating, and why plants carry the memory of people.
🎧 Topics Covered in This Episode:
🏙️ From Rooftop to Reborn Farms – How a 250 sq ft plot sparked a borough-wide food movement.
🍲 Food Apartheid vs. Food Deserts – Why one term tells the real story.
🛸 Afrofuturism in the Garden – Dreaming up new systems through imagination.
🔥 Bronx Hot Sauce – The spicy success of local peppers and community growers.
🍽️ Culinary Diplomacy – What Henri learned as the U.S. food ambassador to Fiji.
🌾 Plants Tell Stories – How food, medicine, and migration shaped the diaspora.
🌮 Mushroom Tacos > Everything – Why Mexicocina makes the best tacos in NYC (yes, really).
🌍 A Tale of Two Bronxes – Gentrification, luxury towers, and community resistance.
📚 Botanical Storytelling – Three years of curating 200+ plants at the NY Botanical Garden.
🌿 Future of Herbs – Researching what grows next—and who should benefit.
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