In this episode Matt asks his ex-boyfriend David Adams about what he remembers about Matt’s time getting yelled at five days a week. They discover memories are deceiving, discuss pickles (no pun intended) a missing record album and some musical divas too. This episode is short and sweet like their relationship. Don’t miss this one.

Originally this was going to be a bonus episode to Episode 23 Poor Jack Dorsey & The Search for Meaning Through Food. But once we bushwhacked through the billionaire weed patch it became clear that this required way more time. Because our local bamboozling billionaires were symbols, as well as the cause of a wide…

In this episode we take a look at the anti-Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey — CEO of Twitter & Square — and his unconventional approach to living. His lifestyle offers something to marvel at — okay, laugh at too — but also provides an opportunity for self-reflection. In other words he’s not the only buying stupid…

As food shopping and grocery stores have become the center of so much of our pandemic life we thought it would be great to replay our pilot episode. In this episode we explore the history of the supermarket. In this episode we’ll look at the history of food retailing in America, how self-service replaced counter…

In our new series we’ll look at how San Francisco and the Bay area both influence and reflect our national obsession with food. In this episode we’ll set the scene. Since the gold rush we’ve been boom and bust, sometimes crazy rich and stupid too. An anecdote from just before Covid-19 changed where and how…

In the age of Alexa, Siri and Amazon’s never ending reach, it might not be a surprise that a new app can monitor your what you buy and eat and automatically create and send shopping lists to your store for delivery or pickup. What might be surprising is that iGrabit’s new app could even the…

While Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods has received a lot of media attention, there has been little discussion of the impact on Whole Foods’ employees. And the impact has been huge. But while Amazon’s gutting of employee profit sharing is just plain greedy, it’s nothing new. Ever since the last quarter of the 20th century…

While Coke, McDonald’s, Nestle and the rest of America’s food giants capture nearly 90 cents out of every dollar spent on food their consolidation is beginning to erode, at least a little bit. And amid this shifting landscape paying huge prices for little companies continues unabated. In this 2nd episode of Cornucopia Point of View…

In our new segment Cornucopia Point of View we look at whether the chaos surrounding Amazon’s integration with Whole Foods is really all that newsworthy as well as how Whole Foods mastery of theatrical grocery, or the retail hand job is likely to chain as Amazon takes over the reins.

After we finished our pilot on the history of the supermarket we realized that Clarence Saunders, the man who created Piggly Wiggly, deserved more attention. Every time we shop Saunders innovations are at play. But more than that, he was a self-made man who crashed and burned not once, not twice but three times. Brash…