Climate Cuisine

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Climate Cuisine is a podcast that explores how sustainable crops are used in similar climate zones around the world.In the hands of different cultures, a single ingredient can take on many wondrous forms. Staple crops are seldomly confined to time or place, and thrive where they can— if climatic conditions allow. Climate Cuisine profiles how sustainable, soil-building crops that share the same biome are grown, prepared, and eaten around the world. As the world faces alarming upward shifts in base temperature, climate-centric conversations about crops become increasingly important to the resiliency and survival of our food systems.Climate Cuisine is part of Whetstone Radio Collective. Whetstone Radio Collective creates storytelling dedicated to food origins and culture, with original content centering the perspectives of global majority populations and diasporas.You can learn more about this podcast at whetstoneradio.com, on Twitter @whetstoneradio, on TikTok and Instagram @whetstonemedia and subscribe to our Spotify and YouTube channel, Whetstone Media, for more podcast content. You can learn more about all things happening at Whetstone at WhetstoneMedia.com.

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podcast_lover222

My favorite show!

I love everything about this show but especially the depth of Clarissa’s questions. Highly recommend!
Ron from CA

Delightful, deeply reported

Such a delightful, fun listen on how foods like taro and the root that makes boba and tapioca can save the world (essentially). The host takes her deep knowledge of foods that we might take for granted and show how they can take a path for sustainability. The episodes are especially a treat for those who have eaten in Taiwan and other places where the foods she reports about are often overlooked in media.
listeneroo

Just get on with it…

Really tiring
Dawn Casey-Rowe

Fascinating food and climate facts

This is a fascinating food and climate series. Love the themes and the focus on individual foods and their climates. We loose that connection because of global supply chains. I love to deep dive into the things on my plate.
w_ekim12

#goals

What a fab podcast!!! Always learn something new, historical or agricultural, and love the interviews w people from around the world. I love this pod. Clarissa Wei / Whetstone's outdone itself.
didipaterno

Educational and entertaining podcast about food

Much needed for discussion on sustainability in a consumer driven modern world. Thank you for your work!
pickledanish

So interesting

Registered dietitian here. I’ve learned so much from this podcast! Absolutely worth your time.
Stan the man 99

Best Food Podcast

I thoroughly enjoy the deep dives into the connections between food in different cultures that Climate Cuisine discusses. Each episode is reasonable in scope and teaches me something new. In a crowded food podcast landscape, Climate Cuisine has a fresh take and I look forward to each episode.
Stephen Pearso ln

Amazing podcast!

My friend was talking about this amazing podcast that they were listening to and thought I’d love it. Turns out it was this podcast. Also turns out I was already listening to it. I didn’t even know this friend for long. But it made me like them more. Because this podcast is amazing. That and also there’s really not enough content I’ve found that talks about BIPOC food history from a BIPOC perspective and I’ve been looking for them for so long. So thanks!
Saddha1

Best Food Podcast, Super Important Topic

Clarissa does a phenomenal job with the storytelling, cinematic in style. Talking about the role our food system plays in our climate crisis isn’t easy to do in a way that engages large audiences, and that’s what Clarissa has accomplished. It’s interesting, thoughtful, educational, and shares diverse experiences from across the globe, all through the kens of ingredients. Bravo Whetstone!
jennyyangtv

Clarissa Wei is a singular voice

I love Clarissa Wei's work and her commitment to in-depth food and culture reporting. Being able to hear her work in my ears is a gift.
speediereedie

Current favorite

This is my current favorite podcast. I have a background in agroecology which might explain why I enjoy Climate Cuisine so much. I love learning about each crop: this show combines botany, history, anthropology and cooking into one fantastically informative show. Clarissa Wei is a great podcast host.
ThankfulListenerNOLA

Extremely educational!

Every episode is an great education!
Spending Spence

Great pod on how power, culture, ecology shape food

Love the critical examination of indigenous uses of foods globally and how colonization and globalization have acted as forces upon local foodscapes!!
ksclements

Unveiling food and culture

I am really loving this podcast and all of the topics that have been covered thus far. It is extremely informative while allowing you to paint a picture in your mind with the descriptions. This has given me a more in-depth reason of continuing to explore some unfamiliar worlds of food and how creative you can be with cooking.
Sequiter1

An informative, if lopsided, look into crops

This podcast is best targeted to those who want to learn more about the world’s most used and useful plants. It’s concise, informative, and fun. I would caution the listener to be aware of blind spots in the presenter’s viewpoints. There is a strong bias here against monoculture and the selection of produce characteristics that ultimately lead toward commercial profitability. This is a complication issue, and I believe it does the truth some injustice to denigrate monoculture without exploring its reasons for existing. Like genetic modification of food, monoculture ultimately has lifted million — arguably billions! — out of poverty at the same time that it hurts biodiversity and creates vulnerabilities to crop failure. This double edged sword is a complex and interesting topic to delve into. But if we treat it as just a bad thing, we overlook it’s nuances, in particular, it’s benefit to humanity. So just know going in that such seemingly good or bad issues are more complex than they may seem at first, and this podcast may not explore the complexities of these topics while it’s guests lecture on the bad qualities of monoculture crops.
Clarecinelli

LOVE

LOVE
PorterBras

Educational and Entertaining

This is a fantastic series that I’ve now shared with all my family and friends!
Stemfem

Food, culture, storytelling 💚

Refreshing to hear the intersection of food, climate, and culture. Looking forward to hearing from all the voices Whetstone will showcase with such respect, reality, and hope.