This bonus track from our Food Scientist on Weed episode is a great primer for cannabis manufacturers and consumers as well.

Food scientist Mary Mulry details the shifting landscape for manufacturers of cannabis edibles and how the shift from the underground to the mainstream requires more science in product development and manufacturing. In addition she discusses how potency on the labels compares across batches as well as to alcohol, and big pharma’s fear about the growing…

With all the current debate about immigration policy we decided it was great time to repost this episode from January 2017. Economist Jerry Nickelsburg, Director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast guides us through the weeds explaining not only agriculture’s huge reliance on undocumented migrants to work the fields, why undocumented workers actually benefit the US…

At the age of 58 after getting laid off from a career in the lighting business my sister Nancy got a job at Trader Joe’s. With humor, gratitude and a teeny bit of regret she shares what it’s like stocking the aisles, ringing up customers and fetching shopping carts at Trader Joe’s, a place where…

In this episode we ask Jerry Nickelsburg, Director of The UCLA Anderson Forecast and economics professor about how legal weed is likely to impact California.  In addition to macro economic trends, our favorite professor talks about whether the end of prohibition in the 1920’s offers insights,  how sales of beer wine and spirits have fared…

After editing our interview with Chipotle’s Chris Arnold we realized there was too much leftover meat in this audible burrito that we had to do a bonus episode. Matt talks with Chris about store designs, marketing, their animated video featuring Willie Nelson and the challenges facing farmers seeking to raise food on a human scale.

While Chipotle’s e-coli outbreak in 2015 severely damaged the company’s image, the fast casual restaurant’s was an early pioneer in creating healthier fast food, making choices that flew in the face of conventional wisdom. In this episode we talk with Chipotle’s Chris Arnold about the decision to use Niman Ranch pork in their carnitas, their…

Defying conventional wisdom about millennials, there’s a small but growing group of young people who are farming the land. In this first of an ongoing series of interviews with America’s new generation of farmers, Ashley Ellis travels half an hour south of the Silicon Valley to speak with a young farmer keeping an 8th generation…

Despite earning billions of dollars annually by selling the same old stuff, America’s food giants are trying to clean up their act. In this episode we interview Mike Movitz to learn about how legacy brands are losing sales to upstart natural & organic innovators and how Campbell’s is ahead of the rest in reshaping the…

Despite his all-star credentials – Chez Panisse, acclaimed food blogger and Paris connoisseur – David Lebovitz lacks any pretense and is gracious and funny. In this fascinating and wide-ranging discussion, David shares his thoughts about the allure of food in Paris, the challenges  small food businesses face there and his belief that food is also the…