The Culture of Food: A Radio Documentary on the Healthy Food Crisis

Written by Radio Rootz Wednesday, 25 November 2009 18:53

On this Thanksgiving Day, many families are sitting down to a dinner made with fresh foods from a local grocery store.  Yet there are many communities where there is no local grocery.  And you don't have to look far. These places exist in cities all over the country.  Even in our nation's capital, there are huge sections of the city where fresh, nutrient-rich food is hard to find.

In this documentary, ten youth explore the culture of eating in a city where some of the most iconic foods are the half-smoke: an extra large sausage split down the middle and usually topped with chili, and something called mambo sauce, which looks like ketchup but more gelatinous.  They also looked at the challenges of some communities' access to healthy, affordable food in their neighborhood. Their search took them from the local carry-out, to their schools vending machines to the soil in their own backyards.

Click below to listen to the documentary which will be Aired on Free Speech Radio News and the Pacific Radio Network.