Episode 7: The Middlemen

Episode 9: Food Waste

On this episode of How Great Cities Are Fed, Karen Karp and Ben Kerrick explore the changing realities of food waste. There has been a significant expansion in the amount of food waste since Hedden’s book was published in 1929. Today, we waste about 40% of our food in the U.S. - but the government recently announced that it wants to cut that in half by the year 2030. Join Karen, Ben, and their guests for a discussion of how we might get there. Guests on this episode include: JoAnne Berkenkamp, Natural Resources Defense Council Dominika Jarosz, Feedback / Feeding the 5000 Christine Datz-Romero, Lower East Side Ecology Center Gena McKinley, Austin Resource Recovery, City of Austin Thomas McQuillan, Baldor

Episode 8: Retailer

On this episode of How Great Cities Are Fed, Karen Karp and Ben Kerrick explore the specifics of food retail in NYC, and how the retail environment has changed over the past century. Guests include: Tracey Deutsch, Associate Professor of History at University of Minnesota Suzanne Wasserman, Director of the Gotham Center for New York City History Joseph Holtz, General Manager and Co-Founder of the Park Slope Food Coop Jason Lepes, Senior Merchant for New Business Initiatives at FreshDirect

Episode 7: The Middlemen

On Episode 6 of How Great Cities are Fed, Karen and Ben are talking about The Middlemen. The Middleman has occupied a prominent and generally unfavorable position in a great deal of the discussion of farm produce marketing during the past 15 years. In the minds of many he seems to be an anonymous and mysterious being who somehow or other edged in between the producer and the consumer with the intent of levying toll upon both of them.

Episode 6: Transportation

On Episode 5 of How Great Cities are Fed, Karen and Ben are talking about Transportation And Terminal Handling of Perishable Food. And theyre broadening this a bit to talk about transportation infrastructure and how it enables our food system.

Episode 5: The Final Mile : Food Systems of New York

The Final Mile: Food Systems of New York is a year-long series of public programs, organized by Open House New York as part of its ongoing Urban Systems Series. The Final Mile is intended to shed light on New York Citys dynamic and multi-layered food economy while introducing and exploring approaches to render this invisible system more tangible. On Wednesday, April 29th 2015, food systems expert Karen Karp, president of Karp Resources, and Robert LaValva, founder and president of the New Amsterdam Market, took the stage to discuss the relationship between food and cities and lay out some of the key issues that need to be explored in the coming year.