Meat and Three, Episode 191 · May 2024 · Reporter, co-host, and lead producer
Angola was built on a sugar plantation and men still cut cane there. Robert King spent 29 years in solitary and learned to make pralines in his cell. Three years of reporting went into this one.
Signal Awards 2024 - Gold, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; Bronze, History.
Davey Awards 2024 - Gold, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.
Read MoreMeat and Three, Episode 200 · August 2024 · Reporter
Zach Ben is a sixth-generation Navajo farmer. He and his wife Mary didn’t want their son’s first solid food to come from a jar, so they dedicated a farming season to him and fed him corn from their own steam pit. Bidii Baby Foods grew out of that meal.
Read MoreMeat and Three, Episode 195 · June 2024 · Reporter
Tyromancy is divination by cheese. Jennifer Billock read my past in a Gouda and my future in goat cheese, which fell apart in her hands as she was cutting it. That, she explained, indicated a bad decision coming.
Read MoreMeat and Three, Episode 197 · July 2024 · Reporter and lead producer
Salt-rising bread is leavened by Clostridium, a bacterium otherwise associated with wounds and food poisoning. People describe the smell as somewhere between feet and diapers. It takes days to make, which is why it’s disappearing. A small number of bakers make it anyway.
Read MoreMeat and Three, Episode 198 · July 2024 · Reporter
In the 1970s, feminist activists stopped asking for a seat at the table and built their own restaurants. Bread and Roses opened in Cambridge in 1974 as a place for women and their friends, with weekly speakers, performances, and art on the walls. Andrea Dworkin read there and Margaret Mead dropped in to see what it was.
Read MoreMeat and Three, Episode 196 · June 2024 · Reporter
Our team ventured into the heart of Times Square, navigating the chaos to a promised land of escapism and tropical delights – Margaritaville. This story celebrates the commitment, camp, and ingenuity that define Margaritaville, challenging conventional ideas of what it means to be authentic.
Read MoreMeat and Three, Episode 194 · June 2024 · Reporter
Cocktail history is largely the story of men behind bars. Nicola Nice has spent years finding the books women wrote about alcohol. Book by book, she’s pieced together the forgotten role of women in American drinking.
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