Healthy Foods

Host Tammy Proctor continues her discussion with Sarah Neville, author of "Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade." This week they focus on specific literary reference to John Milton's "Paradise Lost" poem and the question of the forbidden fruit.

Host Jamie Sanders and Victoria Grieve, USU Associate Professor of History, explore the 1971 influential cookbook "Diet for a Small Planet" by Frances Moore Lappe. A copy is held in USU's Merrill Cazier Library Special Collections and Archives.

In this week's Eating the Past, host Tammy Proctor talks about how to turn much-loved food traditions into vegan or vegetarian friendly offerings.

Eating the Past continues to explore the fascinating history of plant-based eating and famous vegetarians. Host Laura Gelfand and guest Michelle Davis, author of several vegan cookbooks, explore the world of Mary Shelley, the vegetarian author of Frankenstein, who created a vegetarian creature!

Henry Ford was both personally and financially invested in making soy America’s largest crop. Host Laura Gelfand and guest Michelle Davis, author of several vegan cookbooks, talk about Ford's many soy inventions.

Tammy Proctor continues the vegetarian theme focusing on summer foods for the trail. This week we hear about the history of hardtack and how to best consume it!

This week host Tammy Proctor features one of the oldest vegetarian cookbooks that the USU Merrill-Cazier Library owns. The cookbook combines aphorisms or words or wisdom about living a good life with recipes for vegetarian foods.

In this week's USU Extension Education Highlight Edwin Stafford from USU's Jon M. Huntsman School of Business and Victoria Stafford from Slow Food Utah talk about the sustainable cooking movement and the use of induction stoves.

It's Farmers Market season! USU Extension's Professor Emeritus Teresa Hunsaker shares some fun recipes and tips for incorporating fresh foods in your diet.

On this week's episode Laura Gelfand explores the punk side of plant based eating by looking at two cookbooks in her own collection.