Lisa Morehouse is a public radio reporter whose work has taken her from Samoan traveling circuses to Mississippi Delta classrooms. Her work can be heard on KCRW's Independent Producer Project, The California Report, The World and NPR's Latino USA and Weekend Edition. For her award-winning series California Foodways, Morehouse is reporting county-by-county, exploring the intersections of food, culture, economics, history and labor. A veteran public high school teacher, she also works with at-risk youth in the Bay Area to develop radio diaries and features.
Lisa Morehouse on KCRW
More from KCRW
Sizzle or fizzle? The rise of smash burgers in LA
Food & DrinkEater LA Reporter Mona Holmes investigates how smash burgers became part of Southern California culture.
The science of flavor, the taste of tap water, Asian vegetarian
Food & DrinkExplaining how taste and smell interact, why smell is related to emotion, and the patterns of flavor, Arielle Johnson chases deliciousness by taking science and making it fashion.
All the Southern California semi-finalists for the 2024 James Beard Awards
Food & DrinkWith 18 semi-finalists, Southern California had a good showing.
Onions, hand pies, Bangladeshi cuisine
Food & DrinkAuthor and illustrator Mark Kurlansky peels back the cultural, historical, and gastronomical layers of onions.
Gene editing, condiments, chai as compassion, corn as fuel
Food & DrinkDr. Lauren Crossland-Marr explains how the gene editing technology CRISPR is impacting our food chain.
Midweek Reset: Michael Pollan on psychedelics
Health & WellnessThis week, renowned writer and author Michael Pollan on the new science of psychedelics.
Gay bar Redline says ‘see you later’ after 10 years in business
Small Business & EntrepreneursThe Downtown LA gay bar Redline opened in 2015. Now it joins a long legacy of LGBTQ spaces that have closed in the city center.
Soil, the future of farming, policing avocados
Food & DrinkJournalist and author George Monbiot has a radical idea for fixing farming's environmental devastation — but can a post-agricultural world feed the planet?
Encore: The life and times of Lalo García: Immigration, deportation, reconciliation
Food & DrinkJournalist Laura Tillman phoned Máximo Bistrot, a restaurant riding the wave of Mexico City's popularity as a fine dining destination, in hopes of interviewing its chef, Eduardo "Lalo"…