Charlayne Hunter-Gault, 'Descendant', Via Carota's Cookbook, Packing Lunch for Work

Journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault has reported on Black lives for over fifty years, a career that came after she won a legal challenge to become one of two black students to desegregate the University of Georgia in 1961. Reporting for The New York Times, The New Yorker, PBS, and NPR, now she's released a book, My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives, which compiles much of her writing throughout her career. Hunter-Gault is with us to reflect on her career, and the state of journalism today.

"Descendant" tells the story of a community that was born out of an illegal slave colony and the work being done to preserve its history in the light of environmental racism. Director Margaret Brown joins to preview the documentary, which is out on Netflix on October 21.

James Beard Award winning chefs Jody Williams and Rita Sodi join us to discuss their restaurant and cookbook, Via Carota: A Celebration of Seasonal Cooking from the Beloved Greenwich Village Restaurant: An Italian Cookbook.

With inflation--and shrinkflation--high, we look at ways to save money at lunchtime and how to pack healthy and flavorful lunches with Sporkful's Dan Pashman and take listener calls.