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The Table Underground w/Tagan Engel

Tagan Engel

Digging deep into stories of food, race, radical love and creative social justice. Broadcast on WNHH 103.5fm community radio - New Haven, CT. Hosted by chef, activist, artist Tagan Engel

Episodes

20 of 99 episodes

Shucking the Status Quo

How communities are restoring Long Island Sound one shell at a time. Recorded live at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas , we hear f...

54:24Aug 4, 2026

Chef's Roundtable

Chef's Emily Mingrone, Damon Sawyer, and Arturo Franco Camacho in a Chefs Roundtable discussion on sourcing ingredients, the values and crea...

55:02Jul 7, 2026

Strategic Organizing w/ Jose Oliva of HEAL Food Alliance

Protests in recent years have mobilized millions of people across the country and world, and brought attention to issues of great injustice....

54:44Jun 2, 2026

Bryant Terry, Vegetable Kingdom (from the Archives)

Chef, activist, artist and author Bryant Terry on his 5th book, Vegetable Kingdom - cooking for his kids - uplifting Black and Asian food tr...

49:18May 5, 2026

Oysters & Ocean Restoration w/ CORR Shell Recycling & Leetes Island Oysters

Tim Macklin & Todd Koehnke of CORR: Collective Oyster Recycling and Restoration and Kim Granbery a wild oyster farmer and owner of Leetes Is...

55:51Apr 7, 2026

Uplifting Tunisian Olive Oil w/ Soraya Hosni

Soraya Hosni is a French-Tunisian social entrepreneur, olive oil sommelier, farmer and environmental anthropologist. She speaks 8 languages...

48:18Mar 3, 2026

Growing Mushrooms w/ Hood Farmer Rob

Rob Peck, aka Hood Farmer Rob is a Black urban farmer, mushroom grower and educator based in Bridgeport, Connecticut. His love of fungi has...

54:43Feb 3, 2026

Family Edition

For our first show of 2026 - go behind the scenes with our Host Tagan Engel's family, her partner Enroue Onigbonna Halfkenny and children To...

54:37Jan 6, 2026

Loving Soybeans w/ Chef & Farmer Ria Ibrahim

Indonesian Chef and Farmer Ria Ibrahim shares on building loving relationship with soybeans through a multitude of methods to preserve and e...

53:50Dec 1, 2025

Healing Through Corn Rematriation w/ Lauren Sun Turtle Peters

Lauren “Sun Turtle” Peters is a Mashpee Wampanoag seed keeper carrying on in the traditions she learned from her clan mother Anita “Mother B...

53:03Oct 27, 2025

A Career Transforming Women's Health Care w/ Dr. Mitch Levine

Most of the stories on this show are connected to food in some way - but as our byline says we also talk about radical love and creative soc...

49:44Sep 22, 2025

From the Archive: Farming While Black + Fever Pitch Pilgrimage

First aired in 2019. Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm on her pivotal book Farming While Black , the Afro-Indigenous roots of sustainable agri...

55:01Aug 25, 2025

2 Fab Women Food Business Owners

Meg Fama of The Farm Belly and Raquel Rivera of A Pinch of Salt are two long-time food business owners showing us what successful women-owne...

54:52Jul 28, 2025

Palestinian Beekeepers

Mohammed Alqurnah is an agronomist, entomologist and Beekeeper living in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem. Hana' Maaiah is a Farmer and Bee...

54:48Jun 19, 2025

Growing and Cooking in Community w/Rootlife & By Brimarie

Growing food in the city is also an opportunity to grow community and healing in more ways than one. Dishaun Harris, aka Farmer D and the fo...

55:01May 26, 2025

Demystifying Food & Land Policy in CT 2025

Passionate policy advocates decipher food security and a farmland access bills, both up for a vote in CT this spring & let us know how and w...

53:45Apr 1, 2025

Supporting Food Entrepreneurs w/ReSET & CitySeed

Welcome to the first episode of our 2025 re-launch of The Table Underground: stories of food, radical love and creative social justice! Our...

53:48Mar 3, 2025

Sandra's Next Generation Soul Food - Telling Their Story

A story short with Sandra and Miguel Pittman owners of Sandra's Next Generation Soul Food Restaurant in New Haven, CT. They share on their 3...

7:51Sep 14, 2021

Oriental Pantry - Telling Their Story

A story short with Ms. Kim, owner of the oldest Asian market in New Haven, CT where she's been running this neighborhood institution with he...

6:42Sep 14, 2021

Lalibela Ethiopian Restaurant - Telling Their Story

A story short with husband and wife team Shilmat & Wub Tessema on serving up traditional Ethiopian food and culture at their restaurant sinc...

6:48Sep 14, 2021