Eat Your Heartland Out is a series dedicated to highlighting the rich, yet often overlooked, culinary depth of the American Midwest. Food is the storyteller while host Capri S. Cafaro serves as your audio tour guide through this region spanning 12 states. The show aims to weave a tapestry of cultural diversity, immigration history, migration patterns and agricultural variations in each episode. Expect to gain new insights about Midwestern foodways through compelling interviews with historians, authors, chefs and makers; each of whom brings a unique perspective on the Midwest's culinary story.
Latest episodes
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38 min
More Than Maple: 2nd Annual Canadian Cheesemonger Competition.
Join Capri as she travels to Montreal for the 2nd Annual Canadian Cheesemonger Competition. Get a front row seat as six contestants from across Canada compete to be the country's b…
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40 min
More Than Maple: Taste Canada Celebrates Excellence in Canadian-Authored Cookbooks
This week is another special More Than Maple episode focused on food and culture in Canada. Our guest is Karen Baxter, executive director of Taste Canada, a nonprofit organization…
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53 min
The World Needs More Pie: A Conversation with Author and Filmmaker Beth Howard
This week, I welcome author, filmmaker, and pie baker Beth Howard to the show. Beth has authored four books and has recently released a full-length documentary entitled PIEOWA: A P…
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47 min
Farmland Preservation Efforts Across North America
This week, we are talking about farmland preservation efforts across North America. I will be joined by Martin Straathof, Executive Director of Ontario Farmland Trust in Canada. Th…
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49 min
More Than Maple: We Lend A Hand: The Untold Story of Ontario’s Farmerettes
This week is another special More Than Maple episode focused on food and culture in Canada. My guests are producer and director Colin Field, along with historic producer Bonnie Sit…
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43 min
More Than Maple: A Taste of the Maritimes
We are off to Nova Scotia with another episode in our special series about Canadian foodways, More Than Maple. Alain Bossé, better known as the Kilted Chef, will give us a crash co…
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39 min
More Than Maple: Montreal Food Icons Smoked Meat and Bagels
This week, we are heading to Montreal as we are back with another episode in our special series More Than Maple, which focuses on Canadian foodways. You will get a taste of two ico…
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51 min
Celebrating The James Beard Awards
This week, I am revisiting interviews with six James Beard Award nominees and winners I have welcomed to the show over the last five years. Never would I have thought that I would…
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56 min
Amplifying Voices of Agriculture: Meet Podcast Hosts Rodger Wasson and Dana DiPrima
This week, Eat Your Heartland Out is sharing the show with two podcast hosts who use their microphones to amplify the stories of American agriculture. Join Capri in conversation wi…
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50 min
The Value of Farmland Preservation with American Farmland Trust
This week, the show welcomes two guests who capture the power of farmland preservation. Angie Doucette is the Midwest Senior Farmland Program Manager at American Farmland Trust. Sh…
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45 min
A Journey Through Toronto’s Food Landscape with Len Senater
Len Senater is the founder of The Depanneur. The Dep, as many call it, is a place and a concept that has evolved over more than a decade. It has had several iterations, including h…
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33 min
A Journey Through Toronto’s Food Landscape with Jessica Allen
Jessica Allen is probably best known as one of the co-hosts of CTV’s popular daytime talk show, The Social. But this St. Thomas, Ontario, native also has a reputation for being a b…
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49 min
Celebrating Innovative Midwestern Culinary Professionals: Cincinnati’s Chef Jose Salazar and Chicago’s Mindy S…
This week, we are travelling back to the American Midwest, where I will chat with Cincinnati-based James Beard nominated chef Jose Salazar. And we will revisit my 2024 interview wi…
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50 min
Prairie Food and Canadian Snacks with a Midwest Connection
We are back with another episode about Canadian food culture in our limited series, More Than Maple. This show brings us out to Manitoba where I meet historians and authors Janis T…
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58 min
Food Justice and Indigenous Flavors in Western Canada
We are continuing our limited series about Canadian food culture, More Than Maple. This week, I welcome two guests who share their respective lived experiences in food justice and…
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56 min
Canadian Food Empowerment from the Maritimes to the Prairies
We are back with another episode that is part of our limited series about Canadian food culture, More Than Maple. This week we are traveling from the Maritimes to the Prairies to l…
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1 h 01
Indigenous Voices: Finding Indigenous Identity In Food Chef Tammy Maki and Inez Cook
This is another episode that is part of our limited series about Canadian food culture. Meet Chef Tammy Maki, pastry chef and founder of Raven Rising Chocolate, and Inez Cook, owne…
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55 min
Intro to Canadian Foodways with Kesia Kvill and David Szanto
We are kicking off a limited series of episodes about Canadian food culture. Much like Midwestern foodways, Canada’s food landscape offers much more than meets the eye…much more th…
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53 min
Celebrating Festival Culture in the Midwest
In this episode, we are embracing the culture of fairs and festivals across the Midwest. Meet Haylie Robinson, executive producer and host of the TV series Finding Festivals. Then,…
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51 min
Women Shaping North Dakota's Food and Drink Community
This week we are saluting two women who have brought their unique talents to North Dakota’s food and drink scene. I will introduce you to Elena Silvestru Martinez, an immigrant fro…