Episodes

  • Secrets of Morel Mushroom Hunting and Eating (And, Happy Songkran!)
    Apr 13 2024

    Shhh! 😉

    🍄 Long-time morel mushroom hunter and friend, John Argo, reveals family secrets to morel mushroom hunting. Listen up first-timers or seasoned schroomers to tip for finding, cleaning, storage and cooking these mysteriously elusive fungi.

    🍄 + 🐐🧀 = ⁉️

    What can you make when morels is combine with goaty-great conversation—no kidding : ) at a goat farm with cheese making? Let your capricious creativity go or put the two on top of the best grilled pizza crust ever--YUM! 🍕

    🇹🇭And a glimpse into Thailand’s famous festival 💦Songkran 💦celebrating the traditional new year with music and water fights.💦

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    44 mins
  • Build Your Agri IQ: Green Space, Culture and Community Part-4
    Mar 28 2024

    Build your Agri-IQ! Sustainability is not just local, it’s global. Green City Growers Chris Grallert is turning green spaces into our thriving future and shows how Agri-literacy will be a language you need to know.

    Discussing community gardens for refugee, preserving culture and narrowing community gaps, University of Michigan ‘s Anthony Kolenic discusses a refugee Freedom Garden. And, Field Reporter and Thomas Jefferson University dietetic intern, Hiral Salla puts a wrap on her 4-Part Sustainable Series for The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics National Nutrition Month Beyond the Table.

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    53 mins
  • Quit Throwing Away Money: 3 P's to Recovering Food
    Mar 25 2024

    💰Put 40% more 💵money 💵in your pocket? Easy! Learn the three P's to quit putting 40% of your hard earned cash into the kitchen trash.🗑️

    In the US, food waste accounts for 40% of every dollar earned. If this doesn’t make cents, get the waste-not strategies you need, it’s as easy as 1, 2, 3! ♻️My 3-Ps will get you started. When food waste and hunger are happening in the same community, don’t miss entrepreneur Even Ehlers’, Forbes Magazine’s 30 under 30 and CEO of Sharing Excess recovery plan and how you can get involved. It’s all part of field reporter and Thomas Jefferson University dietetic intern, Hiral Salla’s Part-3 of her 4-Part Sustainable Series for The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics National Nutrition Month.

    Missed Part-1 and 2 of Hiral's Sustainable Series? At iHeart.com click on
    ♻️Sustainability: a Working Definition to New Perspectives
    ♻️Urban Gardening: From Seed to Greatness Part-2

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    36 mins
  • Urban Gardening: From Seed to Greatness Part 2
    Mar 14 2024

    Get in on the action!

    🌱Tedx talk presenter, Amazon best -selling author, award-winning innovator, educator and urban farmer…who wouldn’t want Stephen Ritz as a keynote speaker? No one knows better than Stephen how a seed, a classroom and serious enthusiasm can empower youth to better understand their curriculum, get excited about veggies and eat better!

    🌱A small seed and tiny space can grow big rewards! From a spot on your window sill, to a bed outside, seed expert and podcasting author of Working in Ag, Grace Book Retail Store and Operations Manager from Rohrer Seeds will be teams up with me to get your gardening started.

    Missed Part-1 of Hiral's Sustainable Series? Check out Sustainability: A Working Definition to New Perspectives Part-1

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    40 mins
  • Sustainability: A Working Definition to New Perspectives
    Mar 7 2024

    March is the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ NNM and this year’s theme is Beyond the Table.

    From table talks, to who’s at the table, what’s on the table…here at Libby’s Luncheonette we will be focusing on Sustainability. What is it? How is it shaping our local and global future? and What are easy actions that you can do—now.

    Food affects us all and is our future.

    You won’t want to miss exploring sustainability along our farm to plate thread. From a working definition to new perspectives, I'll talk with Dr. Bradly Flann, Director of the Office of Sustainability at West Chester University and field reporter and Intern from Thomas Jefferson University Hiral Salla. My guests share what you need to know about sustainability, simple everyday sustainable solutions and fresh perspectives on issues that weigh heavy on our local and global food system, health and well-being.

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    44 mins
  • Building A Heart Healthy Pantry
    Feb 28 2024

    Your heart gives your 100,000 reasons to celebrate American Heart Month one beat at a time. What we eat and how we stay active has a BIG role in taking care of this incredible organ!

    This time of year, people as asking, "How can I eat heart healthy during American Heart Month and all year?"

    With prices on the rise and time always a premium, what better way to cook heart healthy than to have heart healthy staples on hand.

    Celebrate National Canned Food Month with me and my friends at Canned Food Alliance who made this showpossible. You DO NOT want to miss expert how-to’s for stocking your heart healthy pantry!

    Mejeir supermarket registered dietitians Jodie Vandermeer and Beth Eggleston translate heart healthy recommendations into meals and snacks that fit your lifestyle. Pick your must-have basics for a heart healthy pantry and take a deep dive into the health benefits of three cooking faves with Kelsey Torr- Kettle & Fire bone broths, Ilaria Bonucchi- Pomi Tomatoes, and Lilly Campbell- Jack’s Quality Beans. And discover how cookbook author, recipe developer and registered dietitian Jackie Newgent makes terrific recipes using 5-ingredients or less.

    Originally aired on Libby’s Luncheonette 95.3 FM WCHE radio.

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    41 mins
  • Cherries: Trees in Blossom, Heirloom Fruits and Black Forest Cake
    Feb 27 2024

    Check out my special Cheery Cherry Happy Birthday to my sister and celebrate National Cherry Month!

    Discover Chester County’s treasure Longwood Gardens in bloom with cherry blossoms with Anthony Aiello, Associate Director of Collections. Tour one of the largest collection of heirloom stone fruit orchards with Andy Mariani, family farmer, contributing writer to the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink and expert advisor to California Rare Fruit Grower’s Organization. What’s your favorite way to eat cherries? To celebrate her birthday, learn the secrets to making the perfect Black Forest Cake with Marnie Mills of Sedona’s Monsoon Nectar. Happy birthday, Sis!

    Originally aired on WCHE1520AM 95.3 FM the Talk of Chester County.

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    37 mins
  • Canned Food Makes Good Cents
    Feb 15 2024

    Happy National Canned Food Month!!  And I'm celebrating in partnership with the Canned Food Alliance.  

    From field to processing plant, supermarket shelves to your table, you don't want to miss talking flavor, wholesomeness and sustainability with Brian Flood of Pacific Coast Producers, American cooking and eating trends and how canned foods can fit with Ellie Wilson Supermarket Registered Dietitian for Price Chopper and how canned food makes centc with author of the "Thrifty" blog and Registered Dieteitian editor of Eating Well Jessica Ball. 

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    35 mins