Bill McKibben: There's a Lot We Can Be Doing

Food with Mark Bittman

Sweetness and Light

Nutrition, Arts, Food, Culture, Cooking, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.9 • 947 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this conversation from 2022, frontline climate activist Bill McKibben talks to Mark about why the 1980 presidential election resulted in the most fateful decision of our time on this planet, how we stopped thinking about society and started thinking about individuals, the interrelation of white supremacy and climate, and what we can do to move in a positive direction.

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome to Food with Mark Bitman. As always, you can email us at
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0:20.3	The Bitman Project at bitman Project.com. We'll get back to that conversation in a minute, but first I want to talk about
0:38.4	something that lots of people ask me about when it comes to global cuisines.
0:42.2	There is something magical about
0:44.5	eating a cuisine in the place where it originated. One of the reasons for that is
0:48.6	that the dishes that define it cuisine are built around the produce that's
0:51.9	native to a place.
0:53.0	It's why the feta and tomato and a Greek salad
0:56.0	tastes so perfect in Athens,
0:58.0	or the artichokes in olive oil in Rome are to die for.
1:01.0	They have a certain sweetness and tang that you can get close to but
1:05.2	not easily replicate. And not surprisingly, one of the best ways to get a sense for
1:10.8	how something should taste is to visit a region of the world and
1:14.8	sample a dish in several forms from lots of different neighboring areas.
1:19.4	Then you can appreciate the local variations as well. And the most efficient way to do that, for me at least,
1:25.7	is the first class experience of a Regent Cruz. I was able to do that on our recent all-inclusive
1:31.5	Torivasia. I had a hankering for seafood. Well, I always... on our recent all-inclusive tour of Asia.
1:32.6	I had a hankering for seafood, well, I always do.
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