African supergrains, Russian fermentation, Colombian food in Long Beach

Good Food

KCRW

Society & Culture

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Geologist David R. Montgomery and biologist Anne Biklé explore the relationship between soil health and human health. Senegalese chef Pierre Thiam works to make fonio a global grain while keeping its production in Africa. Chef Bonnie Frumkin Morales explains the simplicity of making kvas at home and why more people don’t know about the beverage. LA Times restaurant critic Bill Addison feasts on Colombian fare at Selva in Long Beach. Yolanda Evans likens rum houses in Barbados to British pubs with a sense of community and conviviality.

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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Evan Kliman and you're listening to good food. We talk a lot about where food comes from and that starts with soil. Soils the blank canvas where all food starts.
0:22.7	It's what food consumes, if you will.
0:25.2	But it's rarely considered in discussions
0:27.6	about what we should eat.
0:29.5	In the book, What Your Food Aid, Anne Bickley and David R Montgomery sift through the science of
0:36.0	soil and how it affects human health.
0:39.6	Hi Anne and David.
0:41.6	Hello. Hello, glad to be here. I would love if you could talk to us a little bit
0:47.5	about the beneficial compounds in food and whether or not they've changed over the past hundred years.
0:55.0	Yeah, you know, there's a number of health beneficial compounds in food that there's
1:00.0	evidence that they've declined over the last century or so in terms of mineral
1:03.0	micronutrients and they're important for health in terms of phytochemical
1:07.3	compounds that plants make in response to environmental stimuli and for their
1:11.6	own health that then when consumed by us have benefits the mix of
1:15.6	fats in meat and dairy have changed over the last century as well as the diet of
1:20.3	our livestock has shifted and so there's just evidence for changes in each of those, and we go into in the book what
1:27.5	the scientific background and basis for that is, the evidence for it, and what it may mean for
1:32.0	human health.
1:33.0	Is there a straight line between soil health and human health?
1:37.0	It's an interesting series of connections
1:41.0	between soil health and human health. Soil health will
1:43.4	influence the health of the plants and crops are grown in it and what then
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