# second helping — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover second helping. Page: Feed: --- ## [Second Helping: Will Gene-Edited Food Ever Make It to Market?](https://kcrwgoodfood.substack.com/p/second-helping-will-gene-edited-food) _2026-08-19 · Elina Shatkin · KCRW's Good Food_ Plus: Tablescaping influencers, the best Mexican restaurants, and more food recalls. ## [Breakfast Burritos](https://kcrwgoodfood.substack.com/p/breakfast-burritos) _2026-08-18 · Evan Kleiman · KCRW's Good Food_ LA's portable gut bombs ## [Decide yourself: The case for and against SNAP ‘junk food’ restrictions](https://michaelprunka.substack.com/p/decide-yourself-the-case-for-and) _2026-08-17 · Michael Prunka · Enough with Michael Prunka_ Paternalistic health mandate or necessary fiscal guardrail? A look at both sides of the growing state-level debate over EBT rules. ## [Second Helping: The Great Avocado Oil Scam](https://kcrwgoodfood.substack.com/p/second-helping-the-great-avocado) _2026-08-12 · Elina Shatkin · KCRW's Good Food_ Plus: Taylor Farms' cruel summer, Talenti's identity crisis, and lobster turf wars. ## [Need a Cookie?](https://kcrwgoodfood.substack.com/p/need-a-cookie) _2026-08-11 · Evan Kleiman · KCRW's Good Food_ Chocolate chippers to the rescue ## [LA's Froyo Renaissance](https://kcrwgoodfood.substack.com/p/la-is-in-the-midst-of-a-froyo-renaissance) _2026-08-07 · Kelly Dobkin · KCRW's Good Food_ Frozen yogurt is having a moment in Los Angeles ## [A Law has Preserved California Farmland for Over 60 Years. Here’s Why Some Farmers Want It Rewritten.](https://kcrwgoodfood.substack.com/p/a-law-has-preserved-california-farmland) _2026-08-06 · Janek Schaller · KCRW's Good Food_ Drive about 75 miles north from Los Angeles, and you’ll cross into Kern County. ## [The album that caught up to me](https://michaelprunka.substack.com/p/the-album-that-caught-up-to-me) _2026-08-06 · Michael Prunka · Enough with Michael Prunka_ A reflection on an album I didn’t love 16 years ago that, through the lens of advocacy, has become my favorite. ## [Second Helping: Office Potlucks Gone Awry](https://kcrwgoodfood.substack.com/p/second-helping-office-potlucks-gone) _2026-08-05 · Elina Shatkin · KCRW's Good Food_ Plus: Ant sorbet, how Big Food wins even when it loses, and a killer lettuce update. ## [On the Road Again](https://kcrwgoodfood.substack.com/p/on-the-road-again) _2026-08-04 · Evan Kleiman · KCRW's Good Food_ Next stop, Cambria ## [Never miss a game (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/pzFXYrgN5sIP) _2026-08-04 · **Sponsored**_ Follow any team; get an hour and one-minute web and email reminders. ## [What North Carolina’s budget does and doesn’t do for the hungry](https://michaelprunka.substack.com/p/what-north-carolinas-budget-does) _2026-08-03 · Michael Prunka · Enough with Michael Prunka_ Raleigh's long-overdue budget builds a vital buffer against federal SNAP penalties, but leaves local pantries and county DSS offices on their own. ## [Second Helping: Millions Go Hungry as SNAP Collapses](https://kcrwgoodfood.substack.com/p/second-helping-millions-go-hungry) _2026-07-29 · Elina Shatkin · KCRW's Good Food_ Plus: The colostrum craze, tainted baby formula, forever chemicals in our food chain ## [Need Crunch But Avoiding Lettuce?](https://kcrwgoodfood.substack.com/p/need-crunch-but-avoiding-lettuce) _2026-07-28 · Evan Kleiman · KCRW's Good Food_ Slaw to the rescue ## [5 questions SNAP skeptics should actually be asking](https://michaelprunka.substack.com/p/5-questions-snap-skeptics-should) _2026-07-27 · Michael Prunka · Enough with Michael Prunka_ New federal data proves the vast majority of safety net recipients work full-time in the private sector. So why are taxpayers footing the labor bill for mega-corporations? ## [The quiet starvation of the American safety net](https://michaelprunka.substack.com/p/the-quiet-starvation-of-the-american) _2026-07-20 · Michael Prunka · Enough with Michael Prunka_ One year after the “Big Beautiful Bill,” a hollowed-out nonprofit infrastructure and looming state cost-shifts have pushed local communities into a high-stakes battle for survival. ## [Second Helping: July 2026](https://michaelprunka.substack.com/p/second-helping-july-2026) _2026-07-16 · Michael Prunka · Enough with Michael Prunka_ Your monthly must-read list for all things related to hunger, food security, inequality, and the like. ## [Decide yourself: A case for and against SNAP work requirements](https://michaelprunka.substack.com/p/decide-yourself-a-case-for-and-against) _2026-07-14 · Michael Prunka · Enough with Michael Prunka_ Weighing both sides of the second Trump administration's sweeping changes to food assistance. ## [Providers, not patients: We should trust mothers to end hunger](https://michaelprunka.substack.com/p/providers-not-patients-we-should) _2026-07-06 · Michael Prunka · Enough with Michael Prunka_ We have spent years designing complex, prescriptive food programs for the poor. It turns out the most effective nutrition intervention is the financial agency to choose for yourself. ## [Books that rewired my worldview: Utopia for Realists](https://michaelprunka.substack.com/p/books-that-rewired-my-worldview-utopia) _2026-07-02 · Michael Prunka · Enough with Michael Prunka_ There was no singular "lightbulb moment" that turned me into a progressive, but there were plenty of books. In the first of a series, I revisit the text that taught me to dream bigger. ## [Open this .onion address (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/W51BIj9slwfP) _2026-07-02 · **Sponsored**_ Access 7btj5kisrpopxjkhmcugbiygfk2xd6op3ta7whfrmxxrldyrlh5b5zad.onion using a Tor browser. ## [Food is medicine, but money is the cure](https://michaelprunka.substack.com/p/food-is-medicine-but-money-is-the) _2026-06-21 · Michael Prunka · Enough with Michael Prunka_ The medical establishment is finally catching up to what families have known all along. It is time we evolve from expensive clinical referrals to unconditional trust.