- Global Voices - https://globalvoices.org -

Global Voices Podcast: Food for Thought, Food to Eat

Categories: Latin America, North America, Mexico, Palestine, U.S.A., Arts & Culture, Citizen Media, Food, Ideas, Indigenous, Global Voices Podcast

Global Voices Podcast Homepage [1]Subscribe in iTunes [2]

Hello World!

Welcome to another edition of the Global Voices Podcast [1].

In this edition we explore the latest work and events in the Global Voices community. We also speak with some friends about the cross cultural elements of our lives, with a special focus on food: both food for thought, and to eat!

Silvia Vinas

Silvia Vinas

First up, Silvia Viñas [3] our Latin America regional editor, has been finding out more about translation on the Web. Intercontinental Cry [4] is is a grassroots journal for the global indigenous movement, providing news, videos, petitions, commentary and action alerts. The site recently launched in Spanish, so Silvia had a chat with Editor and Publisher Alex Cacherino-Gorman, about spreading the news in a different language.

A previous version of the podcast said Silvia Viñas spoke to John Ahniwanika Schertow. Silvia actually spoke to Intercontinental Cry in Spanish editor Alex Cachinero-Gorman.

New Rising Voices grantees

Last month we announced, six new Rising Voices grantees [5] from Guatemala, United States, Paraguay, Palestine, Peru and Myanmar. These new project have joined our global community will each receive microgrants to help get their ideas off the ground. Congratulations to all of the grantees!

Rising Voices

Rising Voices

Beatrice Catanzaro is a visual artist and one of the newest additions to the Rising Voices community with her project, Food Tales from Nablus [6]. Alongside her friend Fatima she is working with women from the heart of the Old City in the city of Nablus, Palestine, to celebrate their culinary skills. One of the major components of their project will be the creation a cooking school for foreign visitors that will employ local women as chefs and instructors. We speak with these two amazing ladies to find out more about their work.

Food across borders

If there’s one thing we like to share together at Global Voices – as well as news and stories – it has to be food. This July 2-3, we will be at the Global Voices Summit 2012 [7] in Nairobi, Kenya, and it will be a pleasure to meet, discuss and eat with colleagues from around the world.

Gustavo Arellano, editor of the OC Weekly in Orange County, California and the writer behind ‘Ask a Mexican [8]‘, has been on a culinary journey to find out how Mexican food has become so popular in the United States in his new book, Taco USA [9]. Journalist, producer and blogger, Cyrus Farivar [10] chats with Gustavo about the flavours that cross borders.

Mexican food sign in San Francisco [11]

Mexican Food on 1806 Haight St in San Francisco, California. Photo by Rupert Ganzer on flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0)

We hope you enjoyed this edition of the podcast. As ever a huge thank you goes to all of our contributors and interviewees, and especially to Yazan for being great company and a brilliant co-presenter. Whether it is food for thought or something to eat, the Global Voices community always has it covered.

The Global Voices Podcast, the world is talking, we hope you’re listening!

Music credits

In the podcast you can hear lots of lovely Creative Commons music. Thanks to Mark Cotton [12] for his fantastic creations and thanks also to all of the wonderful voice over performances and clips that help to glue the podcast together.

Global Voices Podcast Homepage [1]Subscribe in iTunes [2]