• The Business of Food with Steve Alexander

  • By: WGN Radio
  • Podcast

The Business of Food with Steve Alexander

By: WGN Radio
  • Summary

  • Steve Alexander reports on the agriculture industry with stories of how what we eat goes from farm to plate and profiles of the people and companies who make it all happen.
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Episodes
  • The Pumpkin Queen of America
    Oct 22 2024
    Sarah Frey was the youngest of 21 children in a blended family, and was the last of her siblings left on the family’s 80-acre farm near Keenes (population ~ 100) in southeastern Illinois. In elementary school, she would help her mother sell homegrown produce to local grocery stores. As a teenager, Sarah expanded the business. […]
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  • Kevin Bacon crushes on Taylor Swift
    Oct 22 2024
    “He doesn’t even think Taylor likes football,” jokes Sharon Pferschy, co-owner of Garlic Breath Farm in suburban Chicago, about her 14-year-old pet pot-bellied pig Kevin Bacon’s jealousy of Travis Kelce’s relationship with Taylor Swift. What is not a joke, is how hard people work to put on farmers markets each week across the country. In […]
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  • No nipple allowed. No problem, say the creators of Times Square’s newest attention-getting billboard
    Oct 20 2024
    Two of the hot button issues regarding motherhood are being addressed on a 45-foot-tall billboard in Times Square: breastfeeding in public and using formula instead of mother’s milk. It’s a billboard for Bobbie, a formula company started and run by moms. On the billboard is Molly Baz, whose previous huge billboard in the square was […]
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