Stacey Ornstein is teaching kids how to cook and eat healthy food with her new initiative, Allergic to Salad. This week on Good Food, Daniel Meyer invites Stacey into the studio to talk about working with young children in the kitchen. Find out where Stacey holds her classes, and how Allergic to Salad receives its funding. Tune in to hear some of Stacey's stories from the classroom, and how some of her students' culinary skills are surpassing those of their parents! Why are so many children in New York City unfamiliar with fresh ingredients? Learn more about the phenomena of 'food deserts', and why Stacey believes that reforming food policy will help our grocery store shelves. Hear Stacey talk about 'picky eating', and why kids tend to have very particular diets. This program has been sponsored by S. Wallace Edwards & Sons. Thanks to The California Honeydrops for today's music.

"I really don't believe in kids' menus. Kids should be eating the same things that adults are eating, but in smaller portions." [9:10]

"When you're working with kids, everyday something hilarious happens." [14:30]

"I would love to see subsidies in this country change. Most of the stuff on our grocery store shelves is not food." [20:40]

-- Stacey Ornstein on Good Food

A bar and restaurant that gives all of its profits away doesn't sound like a good business model. But on today's episode of Good Food with Daniel Meyer, Nick Vilelle is talking about how he is doing just that with his Washington D.C. 'philanthropub', Cause. Tune in to hear how Nick and his business partner figured out a way to create a bar and restaurant that donates its profit margins to charitable organizations. To what organizations does Cause give donations, and who decides where they donate? Hear why Cause also finds it important to focus on quality and service in addition to their philanthropic endeavors. Nick's background in non-profit work didn't prepare him for the restaurant business; who helped Nick on the restaurant-side of the business? Have any other bars or restaurants taken up Cause's model? Find out all of this and more on this installment of Good Food! Thanks to our sponsor, Hearst Ranch, and thanks to The California Honeydrops for today's music.

"At the end of the night, you get the bill and decide what charitable organization the profits from your meal go to." [8:20]

-- Nick Vilelle on Good Food

Gavin Raders is a co-founder and Executive Director of Planting Justice, a social justice activist, and a permacuture demonstrator/teacher. He dedicates his time to practicing permaculture wherever he can, having gone through extensive training with some of the most inspiring and effective permaculture teachers in the world: Geoff Lawton, Penny Livingston-Stark, Brock Dolman, Darren Dougherty, and Nik Bertulis. Before his stint as an intern at the Regenerative Design Institute, he studied cultural anthropology at UC Berkeley, and organized on a range of anti-war, anti-nuclear, environmental and human rights issues both on campus and off. He has knocked on nearly 30,000 doors in California, New Mexico, Colorado, and Nevada as a community organizer with Peace Action West. He comes to permaculture and ecological design through a social justice framework which recognizes the right of all people to peace, security, housing, healthy food, clean water, jobs and healthcare, and the rights of future generations to a just and livable world. For this to happen, he believes that Americans need to understand and respect the intimate connection and the shared fate we have with all people and all life on this planet, and organize effectively on the local level to come up with replicable and effective solutions to the range of hardships and oppressions we currently face. When families, communities, bio-regions, and nations work with nature instead of against her to provide their own sustainable food, water, and energy, this not only makes us more resilient, but also makes us less likely to violently take what they need from someone else. He is still riding on the inspiration and jolt of passion he experienced in India, studying and advocating for the right to water and against its privatization by massive water corporations (such as Coca-Cola). Thanks to our sponsor, Hearst Ranch.

"We have a great deal of power to change our environment and the things that serve us." [8:20] -- Gavin Raders on Greenhorn Radio