Kate Rutherford: At the Intersection of Rock Climbing and Good Food
Food with Mark Bittman
Sweetness and Light
4.9 • 947 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Revisiting our episode with professional climber and good food advocate Kate Rutherford, who talks to Mark and Kate about her childhood in Alaska (commuting by dogsled!); how Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard got her interested in regenerative agriculture and food activism; and why and how she's making it easier for rock climbers to source local food wherever they climb.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody and welcome to food and a happy, happy new year to you. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm Kate Bitman. |
| 0:08.6 | If you haven't taken part in our very quick audience survey, and you wouldn't mind doing so, |
| 0:13.5 | you'll find the link in today's show notes. |
| 0:15.8 | Thank you. |
| 0:16.9 | And you know where to find us with your thoughts, feedback, and questions. |
| 0:20.6 | Food at markbitman.com. |
| 0:22.7 | We're also online at bitmanproject.com. |
| 0:25.8 | From the last week, a thorough and interesting dissection of aquaculture where we asked, |
| 0:31.1 | is it the new factory farming? |
| 0:32.9 | Plus all the lessons that moonshiner's across the globe have to teach us. |
| 0:37.4 | There are a lot. |
| 0:38.8 | And we've got a couple delicious recipes from Jeremy Solomon's book, Second Generation. |
| 0:43.7 | He was our guest last week. |
| 0:45.1 | If you missed it, be sure to check it out. |
| 0:47.2 | Find us online at bitmanproject.com. Today we're revisiting our episode with Kate Rutherford. |
| 1:13.3 | Kate is a real mountain climber, a Patagonia ambassador even, who's passionate about food and regenerative agriculture. |
| 1:19.4 | She started an organization called Farm to Crag, which, as she says, began as a simple desire |
| 1:26.8 | to make it easier for climbers to source local, |
| 1:30.0 | sustainable food on the road and became the realization that climbers can affect real change |
| 1:35.9 | in our environment, our communities, and our bodies through the joyful act of investing in |
| 1:42.2 | local good for the planet farming. |
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