Heritage Radio Scholars offers high school students the opportunity to learn audio reporting techniques while discovering how food shapes the world around them. The program empowers young girls to connect with their culture, community, and themselves through food — all while honing their storytelling skills. HRN collaborated in Fall of 2024 with The Lower East Side Girls Club to create the Love Letters to the LES Girls Podcast through our newest iteration of the Heritage Radio Scholars Flavor and Folklore, a 10-week after school high school program serving the girls and femmes of the LES Girls Club.
Love Letters to the LES Girls Club is exactly what it sounds like. HRN’s Digital Media Educator Sasha DuBose shares her experiences teaching the food storytelling course of their dreams. Combined with anecdotes from the girls she taught, the Love Letters Podcast highlights just how special this program was for everyone involved. The podcast series premieres February 14th, so expect something in the mail!
Love Letters to the LES Girls Club was reported by the LESGC Flavor and Folklore Members Kiyerra Braveboy, Astan Kaba, Shayla James, Amelia Rodriguez, Symone Carre, Noni Johnson, Imani Hughes, Rae McGee, and Melissa Gregory, with support from Santanah Thomas.
Love Letters to the LES Girls Club is produced by Sasha DuBose and Taylor Early.
Our audio engineer is Sam Gerardi.
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For our finale episode in this delicious little three course menu in your mailbox, host and producer Sasha DuBose (they/she) reflects on her time teaching and cooking with the girls at the Lower Eastside Girls Club. The members who joined our pilot group of Flavor and Folklore may have learned a bit more about food culture and how to yap about it, but it turns out that Sasha learned a lot about herself, too.
21 Feb 2025
Thanks for Checking Your Mail!
In this second episode of Love Letters to the Lower East Side Girls Club, host and producer, Sasha DuBose (they/she), discusses pop culture, food trends, and the different ways they’re eating across Diasporas with the Girls Club Members. Sometimes you find your new favorite food obsession on TikTok, but how could that relate to your identity? Chew on that!
And tune in to follow along as Sasha shares the exciting things that they taught the LESGC Members, and the lessons she learned in the process. And a few delicious NYC gems!
21 Feb 2025
You've Got Mail!
Heritage Radio Scholars offers high school students the opportunity to learn audio reporting techniques while discovering how food shapes the world around them. The program empowers young girls to connect with their culture, community, and themselves through food — all while honing their storytelling skills. HRN collaborated in Fall of 2024 with The Lower East Side Girls Club to create the Love Letters to the LES Girls Podcast through our newest iteration of the Heritage Radio Scholars Flavor and Folklore, a 10-week after school high school program serving the girls and femmes of the LES Girls Club.
Love Letters to the LES Girls Club is exactly what it sounds like. HRN’s Digital Media Educator Sasha DuBose shares her experiences teaching the food storytelling course of their dreams. Combined with anecdotes from the girls she taught, the Love Letters Podcast highlights just how special this program was for everyone involved. The podcast series premieres February 14th, so expect something in the mail!
21 Feb 2025
NEW SHOW! Love Letters to the LES Girls Club
Heritage Radio Scholars offers high school students the opportunity to learn audio reporting techniques while discovering how food shapes the world around them. The program empowers young girls to connect with their culture, community, and themselves through food — all while honing their storytelling skills. HRN collaborated in Fall of 2024 with The Lower East Side Girls Club to create the Love Letters to the LES Girls Podcast through our newest iteration of the Heritage Radio Scholars Flavor and Folklore, a 10-week after school high school program serving the girls and femmes of the LES Girls Club.
Love Letters to the LES Girls Club is exactly what it sounds like. HRN’s Digital Media Educator Sasha DuBose shares her experiences teaching the food storytelling course of their dreams. Combined with anecdotes from the girls she taught, the Love Letters Podcast highlights just how special this program was for everyone involved. The podcast series premieres February 14th, so expect something in the mail!
27 Jun 2024
Preventing Restaurant Waste With Chef Alex Raij
On the third episode of the Pass the Spatula Podcast, Angel Fuentes, a New York City high school student working with the Food Education Fund, interviews his mentor Chef Alex Raij, of New York City restaurants Txikito, La Vara, and Saint Julivert Fisherie, about the causes of food waste in the restaurant industry. Chef Alex shares tips about how restaurant chefs avoid wasting food by ordering correctly, using different aspects of ingredients across restaurants and services, and serving unused ingredients at family meal. Find a written account of Angel’s interview with Chef Alex in the fifth edition of the Pass the Spatula magazine –out now!
The HRN Radio Scholars Program offers high school students the opportunity to learn reporting techniques from conducting interviews and connecting with industry professionals, to script writing and how to use audio equipment. HRN collaborated with the Food Education Fund to create The Pass the Spatula Podcast. Pass the Spatula is a student-run, food-based magazine made by students working with the Food Education Fund in New York City. The theme of the fifth edition, SCRAPS, focuses on food waste and expanding on what the word “scrappy” means in the food industry.
27 Jun 2024
Imagining New Possibilities Through Food Design
In the second episode of the Pass the Spatula Podcast, New York City high school students working with the Food Education Fund, Aylin Sanchez and Traceena Lynch, interview students enrolled in a Food Design course at Parson’s School of Design. Multidisciplinary artists and New School students, Kendal Mitchell and Lucina Blum discuss their work, process, and experience at the intersection of food and design, revealing imaginative ways to save food from going to waste.
The HRN Radio Scholars Program offers high school students the opportunity to learn reporting techniques from conducting interviews and connecting with industry professionals, to script writing and how to use audio equipment. HRN collaborated with the Food Education Fund to create The Pass the Spatula Podcast. Pass the Spatula is a student-run, food-based magazine made by students working with the Food Education Fund in New York City. The theme of the fifth edition, SCRAPS, focuses on food waste and expanding on what the word “scrappy” means in the food industry.
27 Jun 2024
Transforming Food Scraps to Flavorful Recipes
In the first episode of the Pass the Spatula Podcast, New York City high school students working with the Food Education Fund, Ashley Palaquibay and Malacai Alalong, interview renowned chef’s Shenarri Freeman and Nancy Silverton about the recipes they shared for the fifth edition of the Pass the Spatula magazine. Foods that often get thrown out –like carrot tops, banana peels and stale bread– became star ingredients in each Pass the Spatula recipe, underscoring this edition’s theme: SCRAPS! Chef Nancy and Chef Shenarri share their experiences in the food industry and how they reduce food waste in their cooking and restaurants .
The HRN Radio Scholars Program offers high school students the opportunity to learn reporting techniques from conducting interviews and connecting with industry professionals, to script writing and how to use audio equipment. HRN collaborated with the Food Education Fund to create The Pass the Spatula Podcast. Pass the Spatula is a student-run, food-based magazine made by students working with the Food Education Fund in New York City. The theme of the fifth edition, SCRAPS, focuses on food waste and expanding on what the word “scrappy” means in the food industry.
13 Jun 2024
The Pass the Spatula Podcast
Heritage Radio Scholars offers high school students the opportunity to learn audio reporting techniques from conducting interviews and connecting with industry professionals, to learning script writing and how to use audio equipment. The program empowers young learners to become the next generation of food leaders, while honing their skills in storytelling and audio production. Heritage Radio Network collaborated with the Food Education Fund and Pass the Spatula to create The Pass the Spatula Podcast.
Pass the Spatula is a student-run, food-based magazine made by students working with the Food Education Fund in New York City. The magazine features creative recipes, interviews with famous chefs, and tackles issues within the culinary world. The theme of the fifth edition of Pass The Spatula is SCRAPS, focusing on food waste and expanding on what the word “scrappy” means in the food industry. The Pass the Spatula Podcast highlights the work that Food Education Fund High School students put in to create the magazine, with interviews from chefs and artists featured in the magazine. The podcast series premieres June 27th. Stay tuned!
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