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The Return of Donna Lonna Kitchen!
Nov 11, 2025
56m 45s
A Visit to Dot, Turkey
Nov 19, 2024
52m 40s
Books - Fat,Bones,Bitter,Candy,Fruit
Nov 12, 2024
49m 19s
Bird Flu, Night Sky
Oct 29, 2024
54m 07s
Potatoes and Onions
Oct 29, 2024
55m 02s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 11/11/25 |  The Return of Donna Lonna Kitchen! | No description provided. | 56m 45s | ||||||
| 11/19/24 | A Visit to Dot, Turkey | Donna and Lonna visit the Dot Cafe for lunch. Farmer Rob Faux shares some good turkey tales and talks aboutraising birds organically on pasture. | 52m 40s | ||||||
| 11/12/24 | Books - Fat,Bones,Bitter,Candy,Fruit | Recipes and inspiration from food book authors: Jennifer McLagan, Camilla Wynne, and Nigel Slater. | 49m 19s | ||||||
| 10/29/24 | Bird Flu, Night Sky | Very small things and very big things. The KHOI Science Bytes guys, Mike Meetz and Sam Wormley join us to talk aboutmicrobes, pandemics, food safety, asteriods, the moons of Jupiter, comets, and daylight saving time. | 54m 07s | ||||||
| 10/29/24 | Potatoes and Onions | We talk about the many joys of potatoes and onions. Varieties and recipes. We talk about cooking fat, an Onion Rabbit recipe, Leek and Apple Salad, Onion jam, and Sauerkraut Tart. | 55m 02s | ||||||
| 10/28/24 | The Business of Lockwood Cafe | Lockwood Cafe is a local treasure on the northwest edge of Ames, Iowa - located in a repurposed grain elevator. We talk to Sharon Stewart about the Cafe's startup, how she keeps it running and the application of kindness, courtesy, and patience as a successful business model. | 52m 06s | ||||||
| 10/28/24 | Farming with Nick Wallace | We talk with farmer Nick Wallace about making the most out of a small acreage. Beef, honey and more. | 53m 00s | ||||||
| 10/3/24 |  115: Michael Perry | Michael Perry is an accidental New York Times bestselling author, humorist, musician and amateur snowplow driver from New Auburn, Wisconsin. His work includes Population 485, Truck: A Love Story, Coop, Montaigne in Barn Boots, and The Jesus... | 55m 01s | ||||||
| 9/26/24 | 114: Cinnamon and More Food | Lead found in cinnamon. Donna talks about the latest news. And we talk about apples, an applesauce poem by Ted Kooser, we consider the many kitchen variations on fruit jam, pumpkin peel research, an apple limerick, and five reasons to consider... | 49m 55s | ||||||
| 9/20/24 |  113: Culinary School | Jacob Travesette shares his food adventures from growing up in Ames, Iowa to attending the Hoffman Institute - a highly acclaimed, Michelin starred culinary school in Barcelona, Spain. Donna and Jacob compare notes about knives,... | 50m 38s | ||||||
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| 9/5/24 |  112: Work, Okra delights, Mastication, Bitters | Donna shares thoughts of work and household chores. Lonna makes a strange but tasty recipe: Okra Marshmallow Delights. How do we chew, taste, and digest our food? We explore mastication and the wide world of bitters. | 43m 53s | ||||||
| 8/29/24 |  111: Beans and Steve Cannon | All things beans with Steven Cannon, geneticist and researcher for USDA and Associate Professor in the ISU department of Agronomy. Steven talks about the wide range of plants in the legume family and shares the joy of gardening and cooking with... | 51m 32s | ||||||
| 8/8/24 |  110: Fresh Okra, Book review, Lovage Sauce | Celebrate summer and fresh food. Donna and Lonna talk about farmer's markets, ice cream, tomatillos, eggplant. okra and lovage. Donna talks about Dicamba on our farm fields. Lonna reviews a good book: The Whole Okra by Chris Smith. And a good... | 47m 30s | ||||||
| 8/1/24 |  109: Tomatoes and More Garden | We taste a homemade Nocino (a black walnut liqueur). Tomatoes: so much to celebrate, so many varieties... seed saving, growing, harvesting, eating and processing for later. We talk about oven-candied tomatoes, gazpacho, green beans and an easy pickle... | 51m 03s | ||||||
| 7/25/24 |  108: Drinks, Carrots, Recipes and Elderberries | Hydrate! Donna talks about herbal drinks, watermelon, infusions, syrups, and mocktails. Lonna talks about carrot cake and the history of the carrot and the color orange. And we consider the elderberry. | 48m 49s | ||||||
| 7/18/24 |  107: Iowa's Water Quality and Quantity | Who is taking care of our water? Carolyn Raffensperger joins us to talk about the quality, quantity, and the speed with which water moves through our state. Nitrate levels are at an all time high in our rivers. Agriculture and industry are putting... | 50m 58s | ||||||
| 7/11/24 |  106: Chickens with Cynthia McClure | We take a light hearted look at backyard poultry with Cynthia McClure. Cynthia reports on her visit to the first ever Murray McMurray Chicken Festival, held in Webster City, Iowa. We talk about chickens, ducks, guinea hens and eggs. Cynthia shares her... | 50m 42s | ||||||
| 7/4/24 |  105: Blueberries with Kim Anderson | Kim Anderson has a way with blueberries. We talk about growing, managing and marketing at the organic, U-pick - Blueberry Bottom Farm in Brighton, Iowa. Kim talks about the challenges of local wildlife, her enthusiastic customers and the growing... | 50m 15s | ||||||
| 6/20/24 |  103: Healthy Iowa Food Systems with Kamyar Enshayan | Knowing what to eat is a tricky business. How do we learn to eat healthy food? Donna and Lonna are joined by Kamyar Enshayan, Director of the Center for Energy & Environmental Education at University of Northern Iowa. We explore the latest cancer... | 51m 17s | ||||||
| 6/17/24 | 102: Recipe Review, Banjos, Kismet Recipe Book, Garden, Lime Pie, Wild Greens | A review of a Rhubarb Upsidedown Cake recipe, thoughts on banjos, groundhogs, gardens and Lime Pie. Donna reviews Kismet, a new recipe book... and we explore edible wild spring greens. | 44m 42s | ||||||
| 6/13/24 | 101: Fire in the Kitchen, a History with Nick Land | How did humans figure out how to cook with fire? We talk to historian and grass fed meat marketer, Nick Land about the evolution of cooking, human development, the open hearth, the invention of matches, Henry Ford and charcoal briquets. And Nick talks... | 52m 00s | ||||||
| 6/6/24 | 100: Garlic, Garage Sales, Good Brownies | A celebration of summer: garlic and other good things from the allium family, some thoughts on garage sales, and a good brownie recipe. Donna also reviews a cookbook for kids. | 45m 44s | ||||||
| 5/30/24 | 099: Reliable Street, Growing a Community | Donna and Lonna talk to Willa Colville and Maegan Bird about the Reliable Street Farmers Market in Ames, Iowa. Reliable Street is the site of many exciting community building activities: Lockwood coffee shop, a community garden, a thrift store, a... | 55m 03s | ||||||
| 5/23/24 | 098: No Mow May, Basil, Mint, Mushrooms, Nettle Soup | We talk about spring lawn care, basil, and mint. Donna gives us the history of switchel. Lonna talks about harvesting and drying golden oyster mushrooms and we explore nettle soup recipes from Alan Bergo's book Flora. | 48m 29s | ||||||
| 5/9/24 | 097: Out in the Field with PFI 2024 | We start the show with Lonna's review of food and festivities at the 33rd Annual Central Iowa Scottish Spring Ball: kilts, tartans, haggis and Scotch Eggs. Jacqueline Venner Senske joins Donna and Lonna to talk about Practical Farmers of... | 49m 27s | ||||||
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