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American Tuna

American Tuna
The Rise and Fall of an Improbable Food

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Fast Food and Junk Food

Fast Food and Junk Food
An Encyclopedia of What We Love to Eat

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Starving the South
How the North
Won the Civil War

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Potato
A Global History

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RADIO INTERVIEWS

Recent Radio Interviews

“Living on Earth,” hosted by Bobby Bascomb, National Public Radio, November 2007 [topic: heritage turkeys]

“Food Talk,” hosted by Michael Colameco, WOR, December 10, 2007 [topic: Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink]

“Splendid Table,” hosted by Lynne Rossetto Kasper, NPR, May 8, 2008 [topic: Encyclopedia of Junk Food and Fast Food]

KCMO, Kansas City, November 20, 2008 [topic: Hamburger: A Global History]

Jefferson Public Radio, Ashland, Oregon, NPR, November 25, 2008 [topic: Turkey: An American Story]

“The Warren Pierce Show,” WJR Radio-ABC Detroit, December 27, 2008 [topic: Hamburger: A Global History]

KCMO, Kansas City, January 10, 2009 [topic: Hamburger: A Global History]

“Up to Date,” KCUR Public Radio, Kansas City, January 13, 2009 [topic: Hamburger: A Global History]

“This Way Up,” Radio New Zealand, April 2009 [topic: Hamburger: A Global History]

“This Way Up,” Radio New Zealand, May 2009 [topic: Peanuts: The Illustrious History of the Goober Pea]

“The New Amsterdam Trail Audio Tour,” New York History, June 2009 [topic: Colonial New York]

“Joey Reynolds Show,” WOR-AM [New York], September 10, 2009 [topic: Eating History]

“Food & Wine Talk.” Simone Zarmati Diament. September 18, 2009 [topic: Eating History]

“The Main Course,” hosted by Patrick Martins and Katy Keiffer, Heritage Radio Network, October 2009 [topic: Eating History]

“Splendid Table,” hosted by Lynne Rossetto Kasper, NPR, November 2009 [topic: Thanksgiving; Eating History]

Martha Stewart Living Radio, November 2009 [topic: Eating History]

“Crop to Cuisine,” hosted by Dov Hirsch, WAMU, an NPR affiliate, Denver [topic: Turkeys]

“Here and Now,” WBUR-FM, an NPR affiliate, Boston, December 2009 [topic: Eating History]

Joey Reynolds Show, WOR-AM [New York], November 20, 2009 [topic: Thanksgiving; Eating History]

“The Main Course,” hosted by Katy Keiffer, Heritage Radio Network, November 22, 2009 [topic: Thanksgiving; Eating History]

“Vermont Edition,” hosted by Steve Zind, Vermont Public Radio, November 25, 2009 [topic: Thanksgiving; The Turkey: An American Story]

“Crop to Cuisine,” hosted by Dov Hirsch, WAMU, an NPR affiliate, Denver, November 16, 2009 [topic: turkeys]

“Crop to Cuisine,” hosted by Dov Hirsch, WAMU, January 4, 2010 [topic: Gourmet]

“A Taste of the Past,” hosted by Linda Pelaccio, Heritage Radio Network, January 7, 2010 [topic: Hamburger: A Global History] Interview archived at: http://www.heritageradionetwork.com/archives?tag=Andrew

“Veronica Rueckert Show,” Wisconsin Public Radio, January 15, 2010 [topic: Eating History]

“Crop to Cuisine,” hosted by Dov Hersh, WAMU, an NPR affiliate, Denver, March 29, 2010 [topic: supermarkets]

“Bax and O’Brien,” WAQY-FM, Hartford, Connecticut, August 17, 2010 [topic: junk food]

“Americana,” with Matt Frie, BBC Radio 4, September 9, 2010 [topic: junk food]

“Leonard Lopate Show,” NPR, September 10, 2010 [topic: cereal]

Food Heritage Radio interview with Amanda Hesser, Katy Leiffer, Patrick Martins, October 31, 2010 [topic: New York Times Cookbook]

“Thanksgiving: The History of the Foods We Eat,” interviewed by Mario Bosquez, Martha Stewart Living Radio, November 3, 2010 [topic: Eating History]

Past Radio Interviews

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1998 [topic: ketchup]

Fresh Air, NPR, August 4, 1999 [topic: Popped Culture: A Social History of Popcorn in America]

New York and Company, August 9, 1999

Lynne Rossetto Kasper, Splendid Table, NPR, August 1999 [topic: Tomato in America]

Lynne Rossetto Kasper, Splendid Table, NPR, December 2000 [topic: Popped Culture]

Good Food, KCRW, [Los Angeles], August 2001.

Weekend Edition, NPR, July 20, 2002; Scott Simon [topic: Rescuing The World: The Life and Times of Leo Cherne]

Pete Braley, WBSM-AM, August 30, 2002 [topic: Rescuing The World: The Life and Times of Leo Cherne]

“The Joey Reynolds Show,” WOR-AM, September 12, 2002 [topic: Rescuing The World: The Life and Times of Leo Cherne]

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, February 11, 2004 [topic: Foodborne Illnesses ]

Good Food, KCRW [Los Angeles], September 2004 [topic: Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America]

Live with Karrie Dozer KTAR-AM [Phoenix, AZ] November 20, 2004 [topic: Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America]

Voice of America, November 25, 2004 [topic: Thanksgiving]

WJR-AM [Detroit] November 25, 2004 [topic: Thanksgiving]

Joey Bishop Show, WOR [New York], November 26, 2004

WBT [Charlotte, North Carolina], November 27, 2004

Lynne Rossetto Kasper, Splendid Table, NPR, December 2004 [topic: Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America]

Lynne Rossetto Kasper, Splendid Table, NPR, May 8, 2006 [topic: Lunch]

Radio Times, WHYY-FM [Philadelphia], June 23, 2006, 11 AM-12 Noon. Talk show hosted by Marty Moss-Coane [topics: Ethnization of fast food; Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America and The Encyclopedia of Junk Food and Fast Food]

Anthony Dias Blue, Discovering Real American Food, Lifestyle Minute, September 26, 2006 [topic: Real American Food]

Martha Stewart Living Radio, Sirius, 8-8:15 am, October 31, 2006 [topic: Halloween candy.]

Interview, Donna Seebo from KKNW 1150 AM [Lakewood, Washington] [topic: The Turkey]

Ann Heigh, “On the Menu” 1550 AM[Pittsburgh], November 24, 2006 [topic: The Turkey]

WDWS AM-1400, [Urbana, Illinois] November 17, 2006 [topic: The Turkey]

Kelly Twins Productions, [St. Louis] November 18, 2006 [topic: The Turkey]

Krys Boyd KERA [Dallas] November 20, 2006 [topic: The Turkey]

“Joey Reynolds Show,” WOR-AM [New York], 3-4 am, November 21, 2006 [topic: The Turkey.]

Martha Stewart Living Radio, Sirius, November 21, 2006 [topic: The Turkey]

Elisabeth Grant-Gibson and Pat Grant, The Book Report, Monroe, Louisiana, on KMLB 1440AM, November 23, 2006 [topic: The Turkey]

John Dempsey, KMBZ [Kansas City] November 24, 2006 [topic: The Turkey]

“Good Food,” KCRW [Los Angeles] May 12, 2007 [topic: Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink]

“All Things Considered,” NPR May 26, 2007 [topic: Karen Hess]

Martha Stewart Living Radio, June 15, 2007 [topic: ketchup]

Patricia Greenberg, “The Fitness Gourmet,” KCSN [Los Angeles] June 27, 2007 [topic: Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink]

Simone Zarmati Diament and Carole Kotkin, “Food and Wine Talk,” WDNA 88.9FM [South Florida] [topic: Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink]

Krys Boyd, “Think,” KERA [NPR-affiliate Dallas], July 11, 2007

Tom Douglas, “Seattle Kitchen,” KIRO [Seattle], July 20 2007 [topic: hamburgers]

Margaret Gallagher, “Flavour of the Week,” CBC Radio One, Vancouver, Canada, August 8, 2007 [topics: tomatoes and Ketch

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