Wil Hansen is the co-founder and chef at White Pepper, an award-winning catering company in Portland, Oregon. With a commitment to locally-sourced, seasonally-driven ingredients, White Pepper is reimagining what it means to be a successful caterer by focusing not just on restaurant-quality food, but on the people behind it. SHOWNOTES: atthetablepodcast.com/30 SPONSOR: Australis Barramundi is a seafood company that's leading the way in sustainable aquaculture. Learn more at thebetterfish.com!

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30: Building a Locally-Sourced, Seasonally-Driven Catering Company with Wil Hansen

As a founding partner at Renewal Funds, a $98 milion mission-driven venture capital firm, Joel Solomon has invested in more than 100 early growth-stage companies. His work is proof that business and the environment can do more than just coexist: they can help each other thrive.  SHOWNOTES: atthetablepodcast.com/29 SPONSOR: Feast Portland is a food and drink festival in Portland, Oregon that celebrates the incredible food, wine, beer, and chefs of the Pacific Northwest while raising money to help end hunger in Oregon and beyond. Learn more at feastportland.com!

29: Doing Well by Doing Good with Joel Solomon

As the Director of Sustainability at Philabundance, Kait Bowdler helps lead the charge to rescue more than 12.1 million pounds of food each year from Philadelphia-area retail locations. In this interview, we talk to Kait about the pioneering technology and big ideas that help Philabundance serve more than 90,000 people every week, and the importance of both feeding the line and shortening the line. SHOWNOTES: atthetablepodcast.com/28 SPONSOR: Feast Portland is a food and drink festival in Portland, Oregon that celebrates the incredible food, wine, beer, and chefs of the Pacific Northwest while raising money to help end hunger in Oregon and beyond. Learn more at feastportland.com!

28: Feeding the Line While Shortening the Line with Kait Bowdler

SPECIAL EPISODE! Join us on the floor of Seafood Expo North America as we check in with seven different companies working to build a better, more sustainable seafood industry. We're covering everything from sustainable packaging to mission-driven business to wild seafood to sustainable aquaculture with our group of experts! GUESTS: Jacqueline Claudia, Founder/CEO of Love The Wild Marianne LaCroix, Executive Director of Maine Lobster Marketing Collaborative Kipp Baratoff, Co-Founder of Fishpeople Seafood Andy Wink, Executive Director of Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association Kinsey Justa, Program Coordinator for Copper River + Prince William Sound Marketing Association Clare MacDougal, Head of Trade Marketing for Seafood Scotland Moises del Rio, General Manager of Verlasso Salmon SHOWNOTES: atthetablepodcast.com/27

27: The Future of Seafood (Recorded LIVE at Seafood Expo North America)

"Asian in America" and "Wednesdays" dinner series founder Chef Jenny Dorsey joins us to discuss her journey from finance to fine dining, her food- and story-driven nonprofit Studio ATAO, and the power of food as a force for change - even when it's uncomfortable. SHOWNOTES: atthetablepodcast.com/26

26: Food as a Force for Social Good with Jenny Dorsey

Renewal Mill is a next-generation ingredients company that upcycles byproducts like okara, a pulp that’s created during the soymilk production process. Led by our guest, founder and CEO Claire Schlemme, Renewal Mill is working to transform traditional food production byproducts into delicious, nutritious culinary ingredients that reduce food waste throughout the supply chain. SHOWNOTES: atthetablepodcast.com/25

25: Upcycling Food Byproducts with Claire Schlemme

We're joined by Alexandra DeSorbo-Quinn, Executive Director of Pilot Light in Chicago, IL. Pilot Light is paving the way in making food a part of the K-12 curriculum. We talk to Alex about using hip hop to address public health problems, the key metrics Pilot Light uses to build better programming, and why it's so important to create a culture of food education in our schools. SHOWNOTES: atthetablepodcast.com/24

24: Feeding Young Minds with Alexandra DeSorbo-Quinn

We're celebrating one year of At The Table Podcast! A huge, huge thank you to everyone who has listened, subscribed, sent us an email, or left a review. We're so honored to be able to share these stories with you, and we can't wait to see what 2019 has in store!  We're off through the end of the year as we enjoy the holidays and get to work on our 2019 interviews - mark your calendars for our return on January 14, 2019!  In the meantime, we'd love if you left a review, dug into our archives, or recommended a great guest at atthetablepodcast.com.  Happy Holidays, friends - we'll see you in January!

Reflections on One Year (And a Holiday Break!)

What's the difference between commercial and artisan flour? How to our staple crops influence our lives? We answer these questions and more in this week's episode with Amy Halloran, author of The New Bread Basket. We talk to Amy about grain production, what it takes to make a pancake, and the revival of regional grains.  SHOWNOTES: atthetablepodcast.com/23

23: Revitalizing Regional Grain Production with Amy Halloran

Bestselling author of Feed The Resistance, Small Victories, and Now & Again, Julia Turshen joins us to talk about the cookbook writing process, how food can drive change, and the importance of small victories.  SHOWNOTES: atthetablepodcast.com/22  

22: Cookbooks, Small Victories, and Getting Involved with Julia Turshen

Jillian Hishaw, Esq., founder and director of F.A.R.M.S. (Family Agriculture Resource Management Services), on the causes of farm land loss (and how to prevent it), class action lawsuits, the latest Farm Bill, and the importance of providing small and family farmers with adequate legal services.  SHOWNOTES: atthetablepodcast.com/21

21: Protecting Family Farmers with Jillian Hishaw

Daniel Kurzrock co-founded ReGrained, a San Francisco company on a mission to give spent grain a new life by processing it into flour and sustainable snacks. Hear about his journey from home brewer to social entrepreneur, ReGrained's commitment to sustainable packaging, and how his company is helping us drink our beer and eat it too with their innovative approach to reducing food waste. SHOWNOTES: atthetablepodcast.com/20

20: Eat Your Beer with Daniel Kurzrock

412 Food Rescue founder Leah Lizarondo on how her organization mobilizes 4,000+ drivers to rescue and transport food, why it's important to focus on the retail side of the supply chain, and how they've saved more than 3 million pounds of food from going to waste.   SPONSOR: AdThrive is an ad optimization and management company for online publishers - so if you create content and put it on the internet, AdThrive should be on your radar. Learn more at adthrive.com.    SHOWNOTES: atthetablepodcast.com/19

19: Rescuing Food to Fight Hunger with Leah Lizarondo

Veterans to Farmers' Executive Director Richard Murphy on the importance of veteran-focused programs, why veterans and farming are a natural fit, and why agriculture needs an entrepreneurial approach. SPONSOR: AdThrive is an ad optimization and management company for online publishers - so if you create content and put it on the internet, AdThrive should be on your radar. Learn more at adthrive.com.  SHOWNOTES: atthetablepodcast.com/18

18: Turning Veterans Into Farmers with Richard Murphy

Former NRDC scientist and leading food waste expert Dana Gunders on the root causes of food waste, the truth about expiration dates, and  her top strategies to help you build a waste-free home kitchen. SHOWNOTES: atthetablepodcast.com/17

17: How to Waste Less Food with Dana Gunders

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