Jori Lewis

Mar 1, 2024 | ivoox.com | Jori Lewis

This week on the show, Toby Foster talks with the creators of Planted, a local plant-based food truck and catering operation in Bloomington, Indiana. We learn about their inventive, plant-based menu and their commitment to sustainable practices. We have an interview with Julie Guthman about the troubled strawberry industry and we wrap up the show with a recipe for  pickled carrots.

Feb 23, 2024 | ivoox.com | Jori Lewis

“Bloomington is known in the science world--if you say Bloomington, people think fruit flies.”  This week on our show, we tap into the 15 years deep Earth Eats archive, for one of my very favorite stories. It’s about our visit to the kitchen of a science building on the campus of Indiana University, where they prepare food for a tiny organism that supports genetic research around the globe. This one is from 2020, so you’ll hear some mention of the global pandemic.

Dec 26, 2023 | ehp.niehs.nih.gov | Jori Lewis

Ecuador is the world’s third-largest exporter of cut flowers,1 and many of those flowers originate in Pedro Moncayo, a county in the northern Andes.2 The pesticides used by local farms to manage weeds, insects, and fungi may also affect residents in communities nearby.

Dec 12, 2023 | shepherd.com | Angie Kim |Eddie Chuculate |Jori Lewis |Luke Kummer

Shepherd is reader supported. When you buy books, we may earn an affiliate commission. Myfavorite read in 2023…In Happiness Falls—Angie Kim’sfollow-up to her critically acclaimed debut, Miracle Creek—the trial-lawyer-turned-crime-writer takes another giantstep towards perfecting what I like to call the “philosophical mystery” novel. Yes, the engaging plot is a twisting tale about a missing person that had meguessing and re-guessing what happened from the first to the final pages.

Dec 4, 2023 | thefern.org | Dan Charles |Jori Lewis |Siddhartha Deb |Theodore Ross

A cultural history of a controversial fruit Buzzkill The air conditioner was malfunctioning.