I listened to this show for the first time about 3 yrs ago. I share it with anyone interested in our food systems, food psychology, and climate crisis. Been waiting for a second season 👀🙏🏻 Such an important topic.

Fascinating look into our food system and the many challenges it faces.

I have been looking for a podcast like this! Great topics, excellent storytelling, and I learn so much.

I’ve forwarded it to everyone I know. Loved!

Deep dive into issues is fascinating and important common knowledge. Tons of inspiring stories of real people making massive changes on small scales, very uplifting! Thank you for highlighting service workers of color and the abuse they endure. Cannot recommend this podcast more!!!

Approachable look at the myriad of inputs in our food systems — and what we all need to do to change them!

A fun and cerebral look into the designed systems that have a disproportionate influence on our everyday food choices and how they impact climate change. A human-centered podcast series that weaves together a compelling story from diverse disciplines, zooming into the details that matter and zooming out to help us see the bigger picture.

This was such a great series of topics and research and conversation starters. Please continue! I’ve learned so much, even though it’s hard to stomach to reality of climate change, this podcast kept me engaged and curious. Thank you!!

I’m enjoying this podcast so far. It’s a good mixture of facts, context, and stories to bring it all together, in less than 20 min. Also, the podcasts brings curiosity. For example, instead of simply don’t eat beef, they ask how can systems be designed so that those who choose to eat or raise cows can do it sustainably.

It wasn’t anything earth shattering but the way the story is laid out is motivating and exciting.

Really wonderful, informative episodes. Would love if you guys came back for a season 2.

Really enjoyed listening, very informative. ( I Wouldn’t mind if the eps were longer)

Loved this podcast!! I’ve become much more interested in where my food comes and how it impacts climate change, and this podcast addressed that and so much more.

i am currently doing a university project about sustainability and eco-minimalism, and this podcast opened up my mind to new possibilities, thank you!!!🍋

Sandeep has done the work and breaks down these big system challenges and insight into digestible (ha!) short podcasts. A must listen for everyone to better understand our world and our individual role in it from the food we eat, buy, and support! He’s also quite entertaining which makes it easy to binge listen to every single episode :)

Each episode is informative, entertaining, and the perfect length. When does Season 2 come out?

I started this podcast on a whim, and quickly found myself burning through episodes. They’re short, interesting, well produced, and relevant. The show does a great job of teaching important things about food systems, but making them easy to understand for anyone.

It’s a great listen. We all consume food and it’s so valuable to know more about the systems that impact it.

This podcast takes you on a deep dive into the design, function, and results of the food system. It is excellent! As an added bonus it is engaging enough that my 8 year old has been asking if we can listen to “the food system podcast” when we get in the car. Well done!

This podcast highlights so many fascinating details and systemic factors impacting our food. It was a joy to listen to and also gives important information we all should have.

Our food system is build on an inequitable, climate harming foundation. Sandeep does an incredible job of diving deep into these troubling realities with engaging stories from across the globe and provocative questions for how we might solve for these problems.

I never loved loved podcast until this one. This is the only podcast that I’d listen more than 1 episodes a day. When I finish one, I’d get excited for what’d be in the next. Really informative about the food system yet very approachable. I’ve learned so much from this and I couldn’t wait for more. Highly recommend to everyone, not just everyone who’s interested in food. Thank you IDEO!

Learned so much about food; binged it all in one evening. Excellent storytelling and good diversity of thought leaders / perspectives. Would definitely listen to a pt 2.

I absolutely loved the seaweed episode. Super relevant and researched

One of the best, succinct productions on issues/ideas concerning the food system. Loved hearing from such diverse interviewees! “How might we build a climate positive food system that favors the many instead of the few?”

We need to redesign our food system! Looking forward to listening. UPDATE: Just listened to the first two episodes and they did not disappoint. So illuminating and, as one reviewer said, filled with insight and observations I’ve just not heard before. The human storytelling is incredible too. I want to meet those married soil farmers in Marin! So inspiring. UPDATE: I’m listening to Second Kelpings and I just learned something about kelp that literally made me say WHAT?? out loud in my car. And now I’m a kelp evangelist. UPDATE: Finished the final two episodes and I feel motivated and inspired to work for change. Put me in, coach.

An accessible way for anyone to learn about our global and local food systems. Great bite size content for short attention spans.

So inspiring and eye-opening! Love the way how this podcast touched food upon all kinds of perspectives.

An approachable, thoughtful listen about the overlap of design and food systems. Great questions, provocations, takeaways, and inspiration for positive change.

Whether you've never considered the connection between food and climate change, or already work full time at a job that's at the front lines of the issue, you're sure to learning something new from each of these episodes. The host does a great job making complex problems and relationships easier to understand, and the conversation inclusive. Plus, he's got a silky smooth voice that I'd like to narrate all my podcasts.

This podcast is a great intro to various concepts in food sustainability with compelling guests and angles. I love the production value and enjoy the duration and cadence of each episode. Can’t wait for the next season!

Food by Design is a powerful way to relearn a lot of what we as a species have forgotten in terms of our relationships to our most basic need: food. A solutions-focused series that will captivate and energize you as it highlights age old-wisdom + modern initiatives to (re)build truly sustainable food systems.

Very informative, and great storytelling.

Beautiful storytelling and eye opening information!

Working in the service industry since 16, I see the disconnect between us and our food. We cherish sharing food with each other and celebrate connecting over a meal. But we don’t know how it got to the table. Thanks for painting a bigger picture.

I expected it to be a standard interview show but it’s way more than that. I learned so many things in such a short period of time!

Learned a lot about the food industry. Really well put together podcast and the host has a magnetic voice

Can't recommend enough!! Amazing podcast for anyone who enjoys food (who doesn't??) and cares about their impact on the environment.

I work in the cookware space and therefore take a unique look at the food supply chain. I took a huge appreciation for this podcasts’ way of looking at an age old problem in a fun, new way.

It is about time someone did a podcast on food systems, food waste and the future of many of our food sources. Excellent job Sandee and Sarah!

Great and informative podcast that covers a lot of the complex nuances of the food industry from law to cultural. I believe that everyone should listen to this podcast to educate themselves on food and understand how integrated and invisible certain issues are to their daily lives. Great guests/experts as well. Thank you to Sandeep and Sarah for the new listen.

Super informative and I love how they’re connecting the dots across different industries and experts…spanning everything from kelp to equity. A must-listen for anyone interested in food or design!

So even though I would consider myself as already being part of the “choir” that a podcast like this is largely preaching to, I still found myself learning a ton (who knew kelp was so flipping’ magical?) and being really inspired by the people who were interviewed in this podcast. I particularly appreciated the focus on restorative agricultural practices and proper attribution to the original Native American practitioners. I think my only wish would be to place even more of a focus on what larger companies should be doing. I use the word “Should” very deliberately, because I think generally companies shift this responsibility largely to consumers and individuals, and this even happens a bit when the host ends several episodes reflecting on his own personal changes. I’d push harder in future episodes to focus more on speakers like the women from General Mills or Bon Appetit, for example. Also, maybe too many cow burps? Other than that I am 100% sharing this with people I know!

It’s amazing to get an inside view into how folks at ideo approach design within food and AG, I want more!

This podcast creates a great platform for debate of hot issues in the food system, and also shares some inspiring ideas about how we might all build a better future. Love it.

A critical and crucial look at food history and futures

I’m loving this new pod! Engaging, lively format and super informative content for those already involved with or new to food systems. It touches on the most critical and actionable topics with a healthy dose of humor and heart from the host.

Big fan of the way this show weaves together more personal stories and big, meaty facts. Really insightful and fun to listen to!

This podcast really makes you think about the impact of what you eat, the consequences of cheaper, more convenient food. We need to get the word out and learning/talking about it is the first step. Looking forward to many more episodes!

So engaging! Unlike any other food podcast out there. Such important conversations ... the host is great at keeping it informative, yet fun. Can't wait for more episodes!