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Food with Mark Bittman

Senator Bennet: Access to Food is a Right

Food with Mark Bittman

Sweetness and Light

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

4.9947 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Colorado Senator Michael Bennet talks to Kate and Mark about how being superintendent of Denver Public Schools stoked his interest in food rights, what inspires him and why we should feel hopeful, his newfound interest in cooking, and why cast iron reigns supreme.


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0:00.0

Hey there and welcome to Food with Mark Bitman.

0:05.0

As always you can feel free to email us at food at markbitman.com

0:09.0

let us know what you think we love to hear from you we will answer by email or on air.

0:14.4

Please also consider subscribing to our thrice weekly newsletter, The Bitman Project, that's

0:20.0

at bitman Project.com, and of course subscribe to this podcast follow us like us talk

0:25.3

about us complain about us we don't care just get our name out there and listen to

0:29.9

the podcast you know it's great. We'll get back to that

0:34.0

we'll get back to that conversation in a minute, but first I want to talk about something

0:46.3

that lots of people ask me about when it comes to global cuisines.

0:50.3

There is something magical about eating a cuisine in the place where it originated.

0:54.6

One of the reasons for that is that the dishes that define a cuisine are built around the produce that's native to a place.

1:00.7

It's why the feta and tomato and a Greek salad tastes so perfect in Athens. a and not

1:15.0

surprisingly, one of the best ways to get a sense for how something

1:19.0

should taste is to visit a region of the world

1:22.0

and sample a dish in several forms from lots of different

1:25.7

neighboring areas. Then you can appreciate the local variations as well. And the most efficient

1:30.9

way to do that, for me at least, is the first-class experience of a regent cruise.

1:36.2

I was able to do that on our recent all-inclusive tour of Asia.

1:40.0

I had a hankering for seafood, well I always do,

1:43.0

seafood that you don't get easily in the US,

1:46.0

and I had just an incredible experience in the fish markets of Busan,

1:50.0

just overwhelming varieties of fresh seafood.

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