Elizabeth Dougherty

Elizabeth Dougherty has been cooking and writing about food intensively for more than ten years. She is the fourth generation of chefs and gourmet grocers in her family with her mother, Francesca Esposito and grandmother, Carmella being major influences in her early cooking years. As a teenager, her family sent her to Europe where she became focused on French and Italian cuisine. She survived a year and half of culinary tutelage under a maniacal Swiss-German chef and is a graduate of NYIT, Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor’s degree in Hospitality, Business and Labor Relations. Food Nation Radio has won two news awards for content. Broadcasting LIVE each week, nationwide, on FoodNationRadio.com and on stations around the country.

FOOD NATION RADIO TASTE TEST – KETCHUP

We love taste tests! Odds are good that you pick the same brand of ketchup when you shop, rarely sampling others. Well, we did the hard work for you.  We put FIVE different ketchups to the test.  Michael, who stopped trying new foods during the Johnson administration (and who has …

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Guest: George Kimbrall – USDA Protects AgriBusiness… AGAIN!

Let’s get into the Food Nation Radio “time machine” and go back to 2014.  The Vermont legislature passed the first mandatory GMO labeling law.  The food industry obviously did NOT want to disclose that information and fought back hard with lots of negative advertising.  Similar proposals promptly failed at the …

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Guest: Jacques Pepin

From the moment the phone range and Elizabeth heard, “Hello Elizabeth, this is Jacques Pepin” she was like  school girl in love all over again.  Food Nation Radio spoke with the legendary French chef about his early life, his mother’s influence, his relationship with Julia Child and James Beard, and …

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