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  • On this week's show, we look at agriculture and innovation in our state and beyond. We begin with New Orleans' native son Richard McCarthy, founder of the Crescent City Farmers Market and former executive director of Slow Food USA. The activist recently published a book entitled, Kuni: A Japanese Vision and Practice for Urban-Rural Reconnection. Richard shares the revolutionary ideas and practices his co-author Tsuyoshi Sekihara is using to save rural areas that were abandoned in postwar Japan.
  • Ask any New Orleanian what they eat on Mondays, and you'll likely get the same reply: "red beans and rice." For 100 years now, that humble bean has been practically synonymous with Camellia Brand. Lucius Hayward founded Camellia in the Crescent City in 1923, naming the company for his wife's favorite flower. Over the last century, generations of New Orleanians have showered much love and devotion on that dried kidney bean, but as you'll learn on this week’s show, it has been far from a one-sided love affair.
  • Thousands of children in the greater New Orleans region are now enrolled in summer camps. Some are getting vital meals along with their planned…
  • http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wwno/local-wwno-998931.mp3Everyone's doing their best to make changes as we rollover into a new year.…
  • http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wwno/local-wwno-996425.mp3On this week's edition of Louisiana Eats!, Poppy speaks with restaurateur…