Hannah Wallace

The Four Top: Climate Change, Wildfires, and Rosé in Winter

I was on Katherine Cole's the Four Top again—a marvelous podcast about hot-button topics in food and drink.  You can listen to our wide-ranging discussion about climate change and wine, the wildfires (and wine), and why rosé should also be enjoyed in the winter, below.  The other guests were climatologist Dr. Greg Jones, writer Jordan Michelman from Sprudge, and Katherine herself. 

Listen to "Ep. 45: Dr. Greg Jones | Hannah Wallace | Jordan Michelman" on Spreaker.

I'm on the Four Top, Katherine Cole's new OPB podcast

A few weeks ago, wine writer Katherine Cole invited me to be a panelist on her new podcast, the Four Top. On the podcast, which just won a James Beard media award, Katherine and three other food-world insiders (usually members of the media) talk about hot-button topics in the food and beverage culture. For this episode, Peter Platt of Andina restaurant, OPB reporter Roxy de La Torre, and I discussed Sanctuary Restaurants, undocumented immigrants in the restaurant industry, and Peruvian cuisine. Have a listen here, and subscribe to the Four Top on iTunes! 

 

Listen to "Ep. 18: Sanctuary Restaurants | Undocumented Labor In Food | Peruvian Cuisine" on Spreaker.

International Association of Culinary Professionals 2014

I moderated "Turning Food Deserts into Oases of Good Food" at the 2014 IACP conference.

Whether you call them food deserts or food swamps—these nutritionally-barren neighborhoods, where fast food restaurants and liquor stores are more plentiful than full-service grocery stores, are still widespread. Fortunately, cities and rural communities around the country are finding novel ways of providing easy access to affordable, healthy food. Join experts on urban gardening, mobile markets, and food policy to find out how we can turn food deserts into food oases. Speakers on the panel were Dr. Jifunza Wright Carter, DJ Cavem, Mari Gallagher, and Amelia Pape. 

Farmer-Chef Connection, 2014

I moderated a panel called "Plate and Principles" for the 14th annual Farmer-Chef Connection. On the panel were (from left to right): Chapel Hill, North Carolina chef Andrea Reusing, and Portland chefs Aaron Dionne, Greg Higgins, Jason French, and Joshua McFadden. 

Macalester College's Community and Global Health seminar

My colleague Devavani Chatterjea invited me to speak at Macalaster's Community and Global Health Seminar. My lecture, on"Good Food for All: Why Farm-Fresh, Organic Food is anything but Elitist," came out of research I'd been doing for a potential book project on the topic of food justice.