California Foodways

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.

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From Farmworker to Restaurant Owner

Posted July 24, 2018 • 00:09:57

Rosa Hernandez left Oaxaca when she was 20 to work in the fields in Madera, California. Now, she co-owns a restaurant, cooking the food of her homeland...

Can Agricultural Development And Wildlife Coexist? Rice Farmers Think So

Posted July 10, 2018 • 00:14:20

California grows a lot of rice, second only to the Mississippi Delta. But like a lot of agricultural development, rice cultivation took away a lot of...