Abhishek Majumdar and Ira Karnik Talk About the Play “Thook”, Hunger and Food Security

Abhishek Majumdar and Ira Karnik Talk About the Play “Thook”, Hunger and Food Security

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As part of the Festival of Food Security and this summer’s Food Justice campaign, Hartford’s HartBeat Ensemble presents the US premiere of the Indian Ensemble’s Thook (spit), a play in four vignettes. From the Bengal famine of 1943 to the severely under-reported Food Riots of 2008, Thook uses dark comedy, satire and documentary styles to engage the economics of day-to-day life and delve into the psychological distress caused by chronic hunger. Abhishek Majumdar is the creative director of the Indian Ensemble of Bangalore, who form the cast of the play, and Ira Karnik is the playwright.

Controlling Invasives: Is the Fork Effective?

Controlling Invasives: Is the Fork Effective?

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From battered Asian carp to wild boar bacon, fighting invasive species at the dinner table has become an increasingly popular trend, even catching the attention of NPR commentator Bonny Wolf. While invasivory might make for some interesting recipes — lionfish nachos anyone? —is it an effective strategy for control? In this podcast University of Tennessee Professor Dan Simberloff and Yale postdoc and invasion biologist Sara Kuebbing discuss their concerns with the tactic.

Josh Evans of the Nordic Food Lab

Josh Evans of the Nordic Food Lab

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Founded by the chef of Noma, widely recognized as the #1 restaurant in the world, Rene Redzepi, the Nordic Food Lab investigates food diversity and deliciousness, combining scientific, cultural and culinary techniques from around the world. Yale graduate Evans CC’12 will speak about broadening taste, the gastronomic value of insects, and exploring the edible potential of the Nordic region.

A Conversation with Jennifer Michael Hecht

A Conversation with Jennifer Michael Hecht

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In this episode, Jennifer Michael Hecht, author of Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It, speaks with Yale University Press Director John Donatich, about how we can forestall the rising tide of suicides in the United States and worldwide, combing through the history of suicide to recover the most powerful arguments against the irretrievable act.

Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier: a Conversation with Tom Kizzia

Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier: a Conversation with Tom Kizzia

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Tom Kizzia’s recent book, Pilgrim’s Wilderness, details the strange (but true) journey of the self-proclaimed Papa Pilgrim, who established his wife and fifteen children in America’s largest national park in south-central Alaska. In this podcast, Kizzia visits with Amy Mount, Yale F&ES ’14, about how the Pilgrims touched off one of the most-visible controversies between environmentalists, government officials and local land-rights advocates in a generation.

Nature’s Trust: a Conversation with Mary Wood

Nature’s Trust: a Conversation with Mary Wood

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In this podcast Marissa Knodel, Yale F&ES ’15, visits with Mary Wood, faculty director of the nationally acclaimed Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program at the University of Oregon School of Law, about her recent book, Nature’s Trust: Environmental Law for a New Ecological Age. The book highlights flaws in current environmental law practices and offers transformational change based on the public trust doctrine. An ancient and enduring principle, the trust doctrine asserts public property rights to crucial resources. Its core logic compels government, as trustee, to protect natural inheritance such as air and water for all humanity.

Exploring the Roots of Environmental Law: a Conversation with Tom Jorling + Leon Billings

Exploring the Roots of Environmental Law: a Conversation with Tom Jorling + Leon Billings

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In this podcast, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy Associate Director Josh Galperin visits with former US Senate staffers Leon Billings and Tom Jorling about the policies and personalities that led to the first major environmental laws in the nation — and what the history of environmental lawmaking can tell us about the political stalemate we face today.

Min Ye: Grown to Order

Min Ye: Grown to Order

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Min Ye, co-founder and COO of the Smorgas Chef Restaurant group, talks about transitioning from finance to food, about working ingredients from the group’s Blenheim Hill Farm into their dishes, and about staying profitable in a competitive industry without losing a grip on what’s important.

Chris Boswell: Sustainable Food in Rome

Chris Boswell: Sustainable Food in Rome

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Chris Boswell, founder of the Rome Sustainable Food Project, talks about facilitating the cross-pollination of ideas from food leaders all over the world by encouraging them to come to the table and share meals and ideas with the Project in Rome. Boswell spoke to how the Project believes in the power and importance of improving the way institutions think about the food they serve, and about educating a new generation of people to keep that focus real and vital.