The Secret Ingredient is an excellent source of information regarding food politics. As an admirer of Raj Patel’s work, I love listening to these podcasts to hear more of his insights on capitalism, social movements, and food. The topics have gotten a touch out of the realm of food politics but the episodes continue to motivate me and give me ideas on how I can make an impact in my life. I hope to see an episode about food allergies soon or more about current food policies, possibly at the state or local level. I enjoyed the one about Austin so much!

Amazingly insightful and innovative podcast pulling power gender political economy and food all into one. Just a shame there are not more !

... and Raj Patel is so dreamy.

I do love this idea behind this podcast and was super excited because I love the Two Guys on Your Head segments on KUT by the same producer. Raj Patel is a very fun contributor, but I had to unsubscribe because I just couldn't handle another episode where I had to change the volume on the radio a half dozen times. A big feature of most episodes is a super-lengthy and arduous phone interview with an expert, it is often so crackly or quiet as to be basically unintelligible. It's awfully damning, but I think the best episodes are their live ones at CactusCafe or SXSW. Really wanted to like it, but it's just no fun to listen to, especially anywhere that has even the slightest ambient noise.

This podcast is a free class about history, politics and society around my favorite subject: food. Thank you for answering the important questions about food, for exposing nutritionism, foodie naïveté, the problems with and solutions to First World Guilt, the facets of food beyond nutrition-- emotions, pleasure, taste, social relations, justice, the need to think intersectionally, transnationally, and locally, to look at the big picture or in Raj's brilliant words to make our modern world strange. Sidney Mintz, wow, what a neat way to start! Amazing commentary, amazing interviewees, funny, intelligent, deep, important, relevant, necessary. Gracias! Thank you for doing this!

Would be great to get the actual show, rather than an episode of the Texas Standard (an entirely different show from KUT, hosted by the irritating David Brown). A great example of the subtle incompetence that pushed me from KUT to podcasts in the first place.

As the curator of the health and medicine TED conference, TEDMED, I’m always looking for intelligent analysis and historic understanding of elements of our health. The Secret Ingredient not only does this beautifully, but it also weaves in politics, economics, gender relations, psychology, sociology, and culture. It’s 3 on 1 interviewing style comes from an old BBC show and works perfectly. The 3 interviewers play well off each other and have distinct, complementary perspectives. As an avid podcast listener of interview shows, compelling narrative, and geeky topics, this one feeds me on all levels.