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Colleen and Carolyn travel to Jackson Heights, Queens, NY to the home of Ethan Frisch. Together, they converse on the farmer's role in the value chain, and the clear differences in flavor between freshly harvested spices and those that sit in warehouses for years before making it home.

This episode also features Ethnomusicologist Danielle Maggio for a segment on how globalization has affected music-making and music listening. Danielle poses the question: what exactly is world music?

Check out Ethan's current selection of spices here:

https://www.burlapandbarrel.com/

Colleen and Carolyn discuss rice as a global staple. Colleen meets with Momoko at Sourceress HQ to discuss the evolution away from traditional, natural methods of growing rice in her home country of Japan. Early on her sourcing journey, this episode highlights how cultural preservation and environmental activism shapes food justice movements.

This episode also features Ethnomusicologist Danielle Maggio for a segment on City pop, a soundscape of one of Japan’s most opulent eras.

To see the work that Momoko is doing, check out her website here:

https://www.thericegirl.com/

Welcome to Sourceress Educational Bites! This one, commodities. Learn all about the system that rules the buying, selling and trading of most of the products we use on a daily basis - in under 7 minutes!

Part 2 of our coffee series focuses on the consumption side of this hundred billion dollar industry. Nick Kirby invites us to challenge our understandings of certifications and transparency. Mike Nelson talks customer education and activism tools for his project #AskMeAboutCostofProduction.

Colleen and Carolyn dive deep into the specialty coffee trade in Ethiopia. Colleen travels to Addis Ababa to speak with Heleanna Georgalis at her milling facility. Together, we explore the evolution of the ECX and the inevitable rise in prices due to prolonged undervalue for the world’s most prized profiles.

This episode also features Ethnomusicologist Danielle Maggio for a segment on popular music of Ethiopia from the 1960s-1970s.

Colleen and Carolyn meet Stephanie Mutz in the Santa Barbara hills. Together, they discuss humanity's relationship and responsibility to the oceans, direct marketing, and why the best uni divers practice patience.

This episode also features Ethnomusicologist Danielle Maggio for a segment from the surf genre that originated in Southern California in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Colleen and Sana come together in conversation at the Sourceress Headquarters in San Francisco. They discuss their relationships with farmers at origin, the colonial exoticism of the spice trade in India, and how Sana is building a new trade, revitalizing pre-colonial varietals.

This episode also features Ethnomusicologist Danielle Maggio for a segment on planting roots and the diaspora, featuring Queer and Femme South Asian musicians.

Colleen and Carolyn sit down with Christina Stembel in her San Francisco Flower Mart Headquarters. Together, they discuss how Christina built her business as a pioneer in the cut flower industry, disrupting the well-established and majority male-owned market. They dive deep into the American, Colombian and Ecuadorian flower trades.

This episode also features Ethnomusicologist Danielle Maggio for a segment on Colombian cultural hybridity through bambuco, cumbia and vallenato.

Meet the ladies behind the Sourceress podcast: Creators Carolyn Kissick and Colleen King, and Music Curator Danielle Maggio.

This season on Sourceress we take a deep dive into sourcing with innovators in specialty food and beverage industries to empower you with the information you need to make informed decisions with your purchasing power. Sourceress uses an intersectional lens to talk economics, sustainability, flavor, and cultural hybridity through music.