
Councilwoman Cyndi Nguyen part 3
Councilwoman Cyndi Nguyen talks about her non-profit and fruit farms. Although she has only recently been installed as Councilperson, she ...
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Councilwoman Cyndi Nguyen part 1
District E Councilwoman Cyndi Nguyen joins us for this first episode of GreenPepper. Councilwoman Nguyen has chosen to share a ...
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The Law Farm: Food Law and Policy in the Big Easy
Pepper Roussel is a food law attorney in New Orleans, Louisiana and she was kind enough to take the time ...
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NOLADrinks Show: New Orleans Kitchens in the Civil Rights Movement and News & Notes
On this edition of the NOLADrinks Show with Bryan Dias, we welcome returning guest, Pepper Roussel of the Culinaria Center, ...
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NOLADrinks Show: Food Policy and Culture with Culinaria – Top Taco New Orleans
On this edition of the NOLADrinks Show with Bryan Dias, we have two great conversations on tap! First, we chat ...
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Walk on the Wild Side
Americans have a curious and often tongue-in-cheek relationship with pigs. We love them! Northerners because the pot belly ones are ...
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Tradition: It’s What’s for Dinner
Did you ever wonder why New Orleans Mondays are inextricably linked to red beans and rice dinner? Tradition. Way back ...
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Why Food Policy?
As implausible as it may seem, nearly all of my conversations somehow involve food. The subject can be as complex ...
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You can’t take the culture out of food…
My absentee father passed away when I was 8 years old, and the only family I knew came from my ...
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Gentrification: Food as Accessory, not Necessity
Dwayne Boudreaux, owner of Circle Food Store, said his old customer base is gone. Re-opened eight years post-Katrina, Circle Foods, ...
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The Case for Eating Asian Carp
Recently I went to a Happy Hour for the ubiquitous “oysters on the half shell” special. I was lured in ...
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What Came First?
Chicken or the egg? It’s an interesting and eternally perplexing question that has been asked in time immemorial not because ...
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“Let them eat … just not cake”
When I was a kid, food stamps were these oddly colored dollar bills that select people used in stores “making ...
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Crawfish … by any other name would still be really, really good!
There are four seasons in Louisiana: Shrimp, Crawfish, Crab, Oyster … and in that order. They loosely correspond with the ...
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Reproductive Justice
In the podcast series GreenPepper, food lawyer, consultant, and culinary activist Pepper Roussel explores food policy, food systems, and the ...
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