This week on U Look Hungry meet Iris Avelar and Maria Garcia-Vasquez, the women behind "Mex and the City", a cultural website and blog created to promote the free thinking, enterprising, and artistic efforts of young creatives in New York City. Find out how the duo launched the site and learn about their vision to highlight Mexican culture in all of its forms. Learn about "racial profiling" a portrait series the launched highlighting prominent, influential Mexicans in New York City. If you're looking for travel tips, local Mexican spots or just want to learn about traditions - be sure to tune in! This program was sponsored by Hearst Ranch.

"A lot of places in small [Mexican] communities just pop open their doors and serve food from their driveway." [18:00] --Iris Avelar on U Look Hungry

This week on Let's Eat In Cathy Erway is joined by Owen Taylor of Just Food and Rev. DeVanie Jackson of the Brooklyn Rescue Mission and Bed-Stuy Farm . The topic of this week: chickens and, more specifically, the raising and keeping of chickens in urban New York. Learn about the The City Chicken Project and how you can help out via Kickstarter. This episode is sponsored by Just Food.

This week's episode of Hot Grease once again starts with Nicole Taylor and Heritage Radio Network's own Jack Inslee discussing food headlines. Would you wait in line for hours to go to a hot restaurant? Learn about the rising prices of groceries, as well as some food trends happening down in Atlanta, Georgia. Later, Nicole talks with Robin Shulman, author of a new book entitled Eat the City about food production in New York City. Robin talks about the food landscape in the city during the early 1900s, and why so many neighborhoods and areas reference a past in the food industry. Hear some unlikely stories about Jorge Torres' sugarcane in the Bronx, and the start of Willie Morgan's garden in Harlem. This episode has been brought to you by Hearst Ranch.

"I started realizing that this garden that was really transforming my block, and other gardens that were springing up all over my neighborhood were coming into existence not just because people wanted to create something pretty, but because people wanted to actually produce food." -- Robin Shulman on Hot Grease