California Foodways

By Lisa Morehouse

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For California Foodways, reporter Lisa Morehouse spends a lot of time in her car. She’s on a kind of mission: to travel to every county in the state, finding stories about food, agriculture, and -- most importantly -- the people that make both possible.

Episode Date
Chef Chu's: The family-owned restaurant that grew up with Silicon Valley
Dec 23, 2025
Richmond's 'Minister of Food' Serves the Bay Area Southern BBQ, California Style
Dec 18, 2025
Whiskey distillery moves to site of West Coast's first naval base
Oct 10, 2025
While the Bay Area sleeps, the Oakland Produce Market bustles with life
Jul 12, 2025
Home on the Grange: In the Anderson Valley, a story of how hippies, old-timers connected
Jul 11, 2025
Market a destination for food, faith, and Ramadan staples
Jul 11, 2025
The railroad's surprising impact on food and civil rights in California
Dec 23, 2024
Eastern Sierra town home to destination restaurant
Dec 02, 2024
A temple for cheese in the North Bay, inspired by classical music
Sep 24, 2024
Divers keep ag water flowing
Aug 13, 2024
The rich food traditions at Stockton's Angel Cruz Park
Feb 01, 2024
The Often-Invisible Work of a Hollywood Food Stylist
Sep 05, 2023
Farming With Ghosts: Mas Masumoto and an uncovered family secret
May 08, 2023
Cafeteria Cook Makes Gourmet Dishes Inspired by Palauan Childhood
Jan 17, 2023
Hot temperatures, and a hot real estate market, threaten the Ojai Pixie tangerine
Jul 12, 2022
How a Hmong Market in Yuba County Became 'Everybody's Store'
May 03, 2022
'We Just Have Faith': Gold Country Jewish Community Strives to Connect Through COVID
Feb 22, 2022
Sierra Cattlewomen
Aug 31, 2021
The Abbey of New Clairvaux: Wine in the Wilderness
Aug 24, 2021
Gold Rush Status Meal: The Hangtown Fry
Aug 17, 2021
Legalizing Cannabis Impacts Food and Farming
Aug 10, 2021
Coffee Farms? In California?
Aug 03, 2021
Fish Blood in Their Veins -- But Few Salmon In Their River
Jul 27, 2021
Nuts for Modesto: Baseball, Religion, and a Land-Use Fight
Jul 20, 2021
Farmers' Secret Allies: Birds
Jul 13, 2021
An Oasis for Date Palms, Not For Their Workers
Jun 15, 2021
From Mistake to Legendary Dish: Napa's Malfatti
Jun 08, 2021
A Sit-Down Dinner for Military Families
Jun 01, 2021
In Isolated Trinity County, This Man is a Food Lifeline
May 25, 2021
A Frozen Burrito Legacy in the Central Valley
May 18, 2021
Dry Farming During Drought
May 11, 2021
Spreckles: Farmworker Housing and a Changing Company Town
May 04, 2021
Amigo Bob: Tree Hunter
Apr 27, 2021
Remembering A Few Pioneers in California Agriculture
Apr 27, 2021
Humble Burger Helped Fuel the Building of Shasta Dam
Dec 08, 2020
Feeding the Trailblazers
Dec 01, 2020
Home Baked: One Woman's Subversive Response to the AIDS Crisis
Nov 24, 2020
After Devastating Fire, Farmers and Ranchers Heal Soil, Community
Nov 10, 2020
Sikh Festival Reminder of Century-Old Farming History
Nov 10, 2020
Trans Man Finds -- and Creates -- Refuge in Family's Small-Town Cafe
Jul 30, 2019
Cherries: A "Canary in a Coalmine" for Ag and Climate Change
May 14, 2019
Lynda Trang Dai Goes From Pop Star To Sandwich Maven
Apr 30, 2019
"Chasing the Burn" For Morel Mushrooms
Apr 16, 2019
A Tiny, Rural High School Wins Top Culinary Prize
Apr 02, 2019
Eating Chinese Food On The US/Mexico Border
Mar 19, 2019
Nancy's Airport Cafe
Mar 05, 2019
Farming Behind Barbed Wire Fences: Japanese Americans Remember WWII Incarceration
Feb 19, 2019
Beef Is Much More Than "What's For Dinner" At This Northern California Ranch
Feb 05, 2019
Invasive 20-lb Rodent Could Wreak Havoc on Ca Ag
Jan 22, 2019
A California Tribe Bets on Olive Oil
Oct 16, 2018