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Hosted by Helena Bottemiller Evich · arts · EN · 20 episodes
From Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” to Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” campaign, America is in the midst of a food and nutrition policy awakening. Why are diet-related disease rates so high in the U.S.? What are the potential solutions? What does the science say? Award-winning journalist Helena Bottemiller Evich cuts through the noise to help us understand what’s really happening with our food system and our plates.
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Signup to Generate a PitchFrom Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” to Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” campaign, America is in the midst of a food and nutrition policy awakening. Why are diet-related disease rates so high in the U.S.? What are the potential solutions? What does the science say?
American Dish is hosted by Helena Bottemiller Evich. The show has published 20 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Rep. Chellie Pingree on why Democrats should work with MAHA" (14 October 2026, 44 minutes), "Media roundtable: MAHA meets the midterms with Liz Essley Whyte, Chelsea Cirruzzo, and Marcia Brown" (30 September 2026, 43 minutes), and "What the cyclospora outbreak tells us about food safety in America, with Bill Marler" (2 September 2026, 52 minutes).
American Dish publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 47 minutes across 20 episodes.
Booking probability for American Dish is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. American Dish requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. American Dish's contact route on record: verified email.
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Helena Bottemiller Evich hosts American Dish, an arts show with 20 episodes published.
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Episode #19
Seventy-three Republicans and 207 Democrats voted last April to successfully strip a pesticide liability shield out of the farm bill. The provision would have protected Bayer from billions in lawsuits over glyphosate...
Episode #18
This week, we have a great media roundtable with Marcia Brown, who covers food and agriculture at Politico; Chelsea Cirruzzo, Washington correspondent at STAT; and Liz Essley Whyte, health policy reporter at the Wall...
Episode #16
It's been a rough summer for anyone paying attention to food safety in America. Every few days, it seems, we see new headlines about new recalls and foodborne illness outbreaks. And the media is paying a lot more...
Episode #15
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. often talks about reforming prison food in the same breath as school food, a genuinely unusual thing for a top health official to say. At the same time, the Federal Bureau of Prisons...
Episode #14
At the 2023 HHS Food Is Medicine Summit, one item on the buffet was considered safe for 10-year-old Jax Bari to eat: an apple. Everything else was a gamble because gluten isn't required on food labels in the U.S. the...
Episode #13
Ten percent of Americans are estimated to have food allergies — and that’s probably an undercount. The government hasn't updated its population data in nearly a decade, so the real figure could be more like 12 or even...
Episode #12
More than 4 million people have dropped out of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in the past year — an unprecedented drop that hasn’t gotten much attention in the media. As SNAP Director at the Food Research...
Episode #10
<p>Todd Wagner, a tech billionaire and Hollywood mogul best known for co-founding Broadcast.com with Mark Cuban, isn’t particularly well known in food world — but he’s increasingly having a big impact.</p><p>Wagner...
Episode #9
<p>The debate about ultra-processed foods is loud in America right now, but zoom out, and it's everywhere. Governments around the world are trying to figure out what to do about diet-related disease, and the food and...
Episode #8
<p>Schools are the largest restaurant chain in America, bigger than Subway, Starbucks, and McDonald's combined. Nearly 100,000 locations, 30 million kids, and roughly 7 billion meals a year. Right now, the lion’s share...
Episode #7
<p>HHS Secretary Kennedy says the food industry is poisoning us. The White House shares AI videos of him body slamming a Twinkie. And somehow, the trade group representing the companies making those ultra-processed...
Episode #6
<p>Infant formula isn't some niche parenting topic. It's a public health issue, a food security issue, and in many ways an infrastructure issue.</p><p>The 2022 infant formula crisis was one of the most alarming food...
Episode #5
<p>The American diet has become dominated by ultra-processed foods, but it’s taken a while for scientists to even begin to understand what this really means for our health.</p><p>One of the researchers at the cutting...
Episode #4
<p>The FDA is nearly a year into its MAHA era. The rhetoric has been bold — food dyes, ultra-processed foods, infant formula, GRAS reform. But what's actually happened? And what might still be coming? Helena got down to...
Episode #3
<p>Sam Kass calls RFK Jr. "the greatest threat to public health this country has ever faced."</p><p>He’s not joking. Sam led Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign, served as senior policy advisor in the Obama White...
Episode #2
<p>She says she hates politics. She's also been on the White House lawn with the FDA commissioner, helped pressure food companies to drop artificial dyes, and is now one of the most influential voices within the Make...
Episode #1
<p>The Trump administration says we're being poisoned by our food system. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talks about ultra-processed foods, pesticides, and corporate capture of our health agencies. It's rhetoric...
American Dish
<p>Everyone is suddenly talking about food policy. But this conversation has been building for a long time, and I've been closer to it than most.</p><p>I'm Helena Bottemiller Evich, and I've spent years in congressional...
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