Emily Becker

We’re all stuck at home trying to slow the spread of COVID 19. Our lives are disrupted and most things are closed including restaurants, bars, and the KBOO studio. Given these strange circumstances, this Food Show episode discusses strategies to address community food secur... Read more

Today’s show is all about food system workers finding solutions to make their lives and jobs better. We’ll talk with Joshua Cole of Family Meal PDX and their work to raise funds for restaurant & ag workers during medical debt crisis. James Cox of the Restaurant Opportunitie... Read more

The December show will get you thinking about serving others, plant breeding, and when to plant your next fruit tree. On the show, Dinae Horne will talk about what it’s like to go from running a restaurant to running the meal program at St Francis Dining Hall. Lane Selman o... Read more

On today’s show, we go into the kitchen to learn how to make miso with Yuri Baxter-Neal, founder of Life Sampling PDX. Yuri invited me into her kitchen to make miso with her. For the first half of the show, you’ll hear the sounds of miso making as Yuri and I discuss ferment... Read more

It's our Back to School, Farm to School episode of the Food Show. We hear about what schools, the department of agriculture, and local businesses are doing to improve school lunches and support local economies. With guests: Amy Gilroy, Farm to School Manager at the Oregon D... Read more

KBOO Food Show host Emily Becker talks with Dr Jason Bradford about his report: The Future is Rural: Food System Adaptations to the Great Simplification. Bradford's predicts that the decline of fossil fuels will "require a shift of human populations back to the countryside.... Read more

On today's episode of the Food Show, we're talking about the Alder Street Food Cart pod. The downtown pod was evicted this summer to make way for a new hotel, taking a chunk of Portland culture with it. The carts are now in storage and the owners are waiting for the day the... Read more

It's summer and that means camping! On this show we'll talk with experts about what to eat and how to plan meals on your adventures. The show features: Ashley Lance of Fernweh Food Co - a backpacking food company focused on local food. Mai-Yan Kwan of Dirty Gourmet, a w... Read more