PRK On The Air: From Food Plate To Shortcake

 

Photo: Meghna Chakrabarti for WBUR

It’s been quite a delicious week for the ears here at WBUR.  In case you missed some of these delectable stories, here is a short round-up.

On Point took on sustainable seafood in an interview with chef and conservationist Barton Seaver. Locavore chef JJ Gonson was on hand to provide some culinary assistance.  (Don’t miss the fab recipes).

Here & Now visited the new food plate (displacing that crusty old pyramid) and asked listeners to send in their own plates. The photos are classic–my fave is the Dunkin Donuts box + ruffles chips + banana.  YIKES.  Later in the week, Robin Young chatted with Milo Cress, a nine-year-old in Vermont who started BeStrawFree, an organization that urges restaurants to use fewer straws.  The interview is fantastic–what an incredibly eloquent young man.

Radio Boston did a talk segment about the European E. Coli outbreak and took your calls and questions. RB also caught the city hall ceremony which established an unofficial official cookie for the city of Boston: the Haley House chocolate chip. On Thursday, Adam Ragusea took a closer look at the latest developments on the planned Whole Foods store in Jamaica Plain. Those opposed and in support are still engaged in some serious drama. Radio Boston ends the week with a sweet Farm to Fork segment, visiting the Copley Square Farmer’s Market with Tremont 647’s Andy Husbands.  Let’s just say this: your strawberry shortcake’s will thank you.

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Associate Producer, Here & Now Most recently, Jessica worked as an associate producer at WBUR's daily local program, Radio Boston. Jessica moved to Boston in 2008 and has lived many places since leaving her native Texas. After graduating from college, Jessica worked as a federal employee, documentary film festival producer, oral historian, university teaching assistant, traveling saleswoman and klezmer musician. Her work and projects have appeared in The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, Bust, Barnard Magazine, National Public Radio, Public Radio International (PRI), and the BBC. Jessica's freelance radio work has received various awards including accolades from the Religion Newswriters Association and the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. As a Fulbright Scholar in El Salvador, Jessica collected and studied oral histories from the Jewish Community based in San Salvador. Jessica received her B.A. in political science from Columbia University’s Barnard College and her M.A. in history from Indiana University. She learned how to make radio from the phenomenal folks at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Jessica lives in Somerville with her husband, twin son and daughter, and two cats. To learn more about Jessica’s projects, both current and past, please visit www.jessicaalpert.com.