Looking to make something different for your Thanksgiving celebrations?  Don't miss spectacular sides, delightful crafts and good cheer.  And, you'll love leftovers the second time around with these creative ideas.  Then jump in the car and go to the destination Shady Brook Light Show.  

When disaster, crisis or other diruptors of our food system strike, how do farmers and communities respond?  Speaking with Henk Hobbelink of Grain.org we campare wester food systems with small scale global family farms in rural communities to learn more.  And find a grain for every culture, as we spek with Kelly Toups, the Oldways Director of Nutrition.   

Could what you eat affect how long you live or your risk for cardiovascular disease, and diabetes?  Don't miss answers that could change what you have for dinner with my conversations with Andrew Julius Wyrobek, Senior Staff Scientist; Medical Biophysics, Genetics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, now retired, and Pediatric and Metabolic Registered Dietitian Debora Marie Geary Hook.

Halloween costumes, candy, trick or treating, parties and haunts and Halloween-themed foods, where did it all begin and what do our modern-day celebrations mean? As the darkness of Halloween surrounds us, Marnie Mills owner of Yoga in Sedona and Monsoon Nectar joins me to bring light to some of the darkest mysteries of Halloween. And cauldrons, bubbling brews and spells, good-witch Dannon Elderhill wrote the book, The Magic Book of Cookery, A Collection of 17th Century Spells and Recipes. And if you're looking to be the life of the zombie party, you are going to laugh your way into the kitchen when Frank DeCaro, host of his own Serius XM show and author of the Dead Celebrities Cookbook raises recipes from the dead.

Crisp fall air, the cruch of leaves and th streets of West Chester.  Expolre fall comforts and what you need to know to pick, choose and carve your halloween pumpkins with co-host Marnie Mills (Yoga in Sedona and Monsoon Nectar)  Recipe idea galore!  Don't miss the Fiorenza's Food for Friends West Chester Chili Cook-Off recap and 3rd place winning chili from WCHE 95.3 FM's team.  

It's Chili season!  From the New York Times to the streets of uptown West Chester Pennsylvania, bold, flavorful, hearty chili is on the menu.  Co-host Marnie Mills (owner of Monsoon Nectar and Yoga in Sedona) joins me to talk all things chili and support our WCHE 1520AM 95.3 FM team Barry D, Steve and Erick who will be competing in the Fiorenza's Food for Friends 2025 F4 West Chester Chili Cook-Off and fundraiser to end hunger. The streets of West Chester will be heating up Sunday, October 12th with music, community and thousands of tastes the greatest chili cook-off competition! 

If you love food, the 44th Annual Chester County Restaurant & Food Truck Festival is where you wanted to be.  To get a taste of food sun and fun, Marnie Mills (Yoga In Sedona and Monsoon Nectar), cohost and field reporter reports live from the streets of West Chester.  And later, a culinary trip to Poland takes center stage, …and if your looking for some instant fun, as they say, "just add water"…On Saturday September 27th the classic rock band, Just Add Water , will play at the Polish American Citizen's Club in Phoenixville Pennsylvania from 6-10 PM.  Keeping the beat, Rich Burns drummer of Just Add Water joins us to take us back stage to meet the band and get an exclusive in the the positivity you don't want to miss. Into a large bowl, empty Polish traditions, culture and food, stir in  a whole lot of conversation, then Just Add Water….today we're serving up music and food baked into a whole lot of fun!  I love broadcasting live from WCHE 95.3 FM 1520 AM Radio.  

The act of hunting and gathering food, ingredients and medicine seems so ancient, yet we still have to hunt and gather every day…or at least once a week when we do our weekly shopping.  For most people, finding aromatics like 🌿herbs and garlic, 🍄gathering mushrooms for a cacciatori, or 🍵selecting a tea for a scratchy throat…. is a drive to the local supermarket.  But for foragers, these ingredients are freely available in nature.   But could HOW we go about getting these necessities— from the supermarket or nature, make a difference?  If the gap between the supermarket and foraging seems vast and and foreign, todays guest Horace Sheffield—👨‍🍳forager and chef, will help you explore the world of foraging which is deelpy rooted in the human experience. Joined by my sister Marnie, we explore turning  foraging finds to culinary creations with passionate forager and chef Horace Sheffield.  Horace's youtube chanels are passionate forager and passionate forager 2.  And be sure to check out Marsnie's Yoga In Sedona and Monsoon Nectar Chakra Aroma Skin and Hair Care.

We think we are cooking healthy, but is our cookware be as clean as our food choices?  Learn what the differenc clean cookware can make and why it might make a difference.  And impressinve that the small community of Kennet Square Pennsylvania and the surrounding areas produces about half of the nation's mushrooms, you have to hear my conversation with Tim Page of Lmabert Spawn.  Have fun! If you love mushrooms, check out Marnie and my follow up to the Kennet Square Mushroom Festival and enjoy our teaser interview with Horace Sheffield, who will be my guest next week venture deep into foraging.

Curious, learning or committed…experience the vegan lifestyle through two sisters celebration of Vegandale, Philadelphia. Music, art and innovative animal-free  foods came together, and vegans and non-vegans from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and New York, Washington DC brought high vibes to the Philadelphia Navy Yard.  Experience the excitement, diversity and food through our Vegandale recap. And don't miss Vegandale Toronto on September 6th and New York September 27th.