Chef Abra Berens on what to do with your summer strawberries

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Chef Abra Berens on what to do with your summer strawberries

There is something special about strawberry season in Michigan: that brief moment of the year when we trade the pale gigantic plastic clamshell berries for the sweet, deep red jewels of in-season strawberries. On this episode, Chef Abra Berens is back with a recipe that gives those summer strawberries the respect they deserve.  GUEST:  Abra Berens, cookbook author and culinary director at Granor Farm  Looking for more conversations from Stateside? Right this way [https://www.michiganradio.org/programs/stateside]. If you like what you hear on the pod, consider supporting our work. [http://michiganpublic.org/podfund] Music in this episode by Blue Dot Sessions. [https://www.sessions.blue/] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Could whitefish disappear from Lake Michigan and Lake Huron?

Whitefish populations in the lower Great Lakes have been declining for decades. Bridge Michigan environment reporter Kelly House joined Stateside to discuss what’s threatening the iconic fish, and what could be done to save them. GUEST: Kelly House, Environment Reporter at Bridge Michigan See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

M.L. Elrick on local journalism and the state of newspapers

This summer, the Scripps Howard Fund gave Detroit Free Press reporter M.L. Elrick an award for his column “On Guard [https://www.freep.com/staff/5026771002/ml-elrick/]”, in which he publishes all manner of exposes, in the muckraking tradition.  Back in 2009, Elrick and his colleague Jim Schaefer shared a Pulitzer prize for covering corruption in the administration of then-Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.  Elrick is also the creator of a student journalism project called Eye on Michigan at MSU. GUEST: M.L. Elrick, journalist, Detroit Free Press See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

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