Heritage Radio Network On Tour

In this last portion of the James Beard Foundation Food Summit, facilitator Mitch Baranowski chats with Olivier DeSchutter (International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems), Phil Jones (City Food), Pamela Koch (Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy), Peggy Neu (The Monday Campaigns), and Hari Pulapaka (Stetson University) in this panel titled Cultivating Consumers into Citizens: Perspectives. This incredible panel of speakers not only discuss their most recent endeavors in food policy and advocacy, but also further delve into the role the consumer has to play within the avenues of sustainability, education, environmentalism, and even race relations when it comes to the food we buy, eat, and share. In the closing discussions of the James Beard Foundation Food Summit, author and chef Tunde Wey talks about the realization that inspired him to start his thought-provoking Blackness in America and 1882 dinners. Wey spoke of his Nigerian heritage and how realizing the difference between