After two decades as the Editor in Chief of Food & Wine magazine, Dana Cowin launched Progressive Hedonist, a platform to bring joy, connection and uplift through food and gathering while tackling one of the seemingly impossible challenges of our lifetime: healing the natural world. On this podcast, Cowin interviews people who also believe in the powerful potential for food to bring change and fuel community.
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Signup to Generate a PitchAfter two decades as the Editor in Chief of Food & Wine magazine, Dana Cowin launched Progressive Hedonist, a platform to bring joy, connection and uplift through food and gathering while tackling one of the seemingly impossible challenges of our lifetime: healing the natural world.
Recent episodes include "Intersection of Joy and Activism: Leah Thomas" (6 August 2025, 33 minutes), "The Complex Question of Food Innovation: Larissa Zimberoff" (2 July 2025, 34 minutes), and "Designing with Community, Trouble and Impermanence in Mind: LinYee Yuan" (18 June 2025, 38 minutes).
Progressive Hedonist publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 35 minutes across 14 episodes.
Booking probability for Progressive Hedonist is 19%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Progressive Hedonist requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Progressive Hedonist's contact route on record: verified email.
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Progressive Hedonist is an arts podcast with 14 episodes published.
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Episode #13
Leah Thomas, founder of the Intersectional Environmentalist, speaks eloquently about the importance of understanding interrelated systemic inequities and highlights the extraordinary work of Black environmentalists who...
Episode #12
In the ever-evolving world of food tech, Larissa Zimberoff is a uniquely thoughtful, well-informed and rigorous writer who cares about health, nutrition, innovation, taste, climate and soil. On this episode, host Dana...
Episode #11
LinYee Yuan is the founder of Mold, a platform that "hopes to inspire designers to improve food systems through creative, human-centric solutions." For Yuan, the role of "design" is to ask questions, and on the...
Episode #10
Bestselling author Dan Buettner has unlocked the secrets of longevity by studying Blue Zones, regions in the world where people live beyond the age of 80. Host Dana Cowin asks Buettner what we can learn from these...
Episode #9
How are restaurants contributing to health issues for people and planet? That is one of the motivating questions for Johanna Hellrigl, chef and co-owner of Ama in Washington, DC. On the Progressive Hedonist podcast...
Episode #8
Imani Black, founder of Minorities in Aquaculture (MIA), discusses the history—and the future—of Black watermen and demystifies the American aquaculture industry in this episode of Progressive Hedonist with Dana Cowin...
Episode #7
One of the best-known chef-environmentalists in the world, Dan Barber of Blue Hill Stone Barns shares his thoughts on how prioritizing deliciousness can improve the world. On this podcast, Barber dives into the benefits...
Episode #6
Cocktail consultant Kelsey Ramage of LA’s Trash Collective is an expert in making divine drinks from items that would ordinarily be thrown away. After noticing the obscene amount of fresh produce tossed out at a hotel...
Episode #5
Andrew Zimmern might be best known for eating things like coral worms in Samoa and horse rib and rectum sausage in Kazakhstan, but when podcast host Dana Cowin caught up with him on Progressive Hedonist, he had clearly...
Episode #4
Isaias Hernandez is a young climate activist whose background, education and insights make him one of the most prominent eco-communicators of his generation. A child of Mexican immigrants, he grew up in LA next door to...
Episode #3
A pioneer of farm to table restaurants in America, chef Alice Waters of Chez Panisse takes us back to the beginning of the regenerative organic movement in California and brings us to the present day, highlighting her...
Episode #2
Chef Douglas McMaster, a leader in the zero waste food movement, shares his insights into how to become more connected with nature. The result is experiencing greater pleasure and understanding of the systems that...
Episode #1
With fierce intelligence, wit and an easy charm, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, author of the instant best-seller “What If We Get It Right?” stresses the urgency of implementing existing solutions to the climate crisis...
Episode #1
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National Geographic explorer, Emmy Award-winning producer, New York Times best-selling author, National Geographic
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