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2026-0608 FOOD TRAVEL USA WITH ELIZABETH DOUGHERTY
The TRUTH About Food and Travel
Album: The TRUTH About Food & Travel 060826
Original Broadcast Date: 06/08/26
FULL SHOW RECAP: After an update on Food News, Elizabeth has a warning the mainstream media hasn’t caught up to yet: the global fertilizer supply is running out, the farms are already feeling it, and your grocery store has a countdown clock that nobody in Washington is talking about. And the Top 10 Food Cravings segment reframes everything you thought you knew about willpower, revealing the specific nutritional deficiencies driving the urges your body refuses to let you ignore. You’ll hear how Canada has been quietly erasing the GMO fingerprint from ultraprocessed food ingredients before they ever cross the border into the United States, with former Canadian government scientist Dr. Thierry Vrain as the insider witness who spent thirty years defending the lie before he finally stopped. The Windows 11 privacy segment reveals how Microsoft turned a routine software upgrade into a surveillance agreement most users clicked through in three seconds, with Copilot so deeply embedded in the operating system that your personal files, photos, and financial records are being vacuumed out in real time. Elizabeth also takes listeners underground to the Lincoln Memorial Undercroft, the forgotten chamber beneath one of America’s most iconic monuments that has been hiding in plain sight since 1922.
2026-0601 FOOD TRAVEL USA WITH ELIZABETH DOUGHERTY
The TRUTH About Food and Travel
Album: The TRUTH About Food & Travel 060126
Original Broadcast Date: 06/01/26
This week on Food Travel USA, Elizabeth Dougherty takes a closer look at several stories that affect all of us, whether we’re standing in a grocery store aisle or sitting in an airport terminal. The show begins with Food News and Commentary, then pulls back the curtain on professional server training and why it can make or break your restaurant experience. A two-part feature on fertilizer explores how modern food production depends on it and why decisions made far from the farm can have real consequences for consumers. Elizabeth also examines what your food cravings may be trying to tell you and revisits a remarkable conversation with Dr. Terry Vrain, whose thoughts on GMOs and modern agriculture continue to spark debate years later. In Hour Two, Travel News, Airline Debacles, and Cruise News cover the latest developments affecting travelers, while RV Tips & Tales shares an important warning about RV consignment. The show wraps up with a look at Microsoft’s Windows 11 privacy concerns and a fascinating trip beneath the Lincoln Memorial to discover a hidden piece of American history that few visitors ever get to see.
2026-0518 FOOD TRAVEL USA WITH ELIZABETH DOUGHERTY
The TRUTH About Food and Travel
Album: The TRUTH About Food & Travel 051826
Original Broadcast Date: 05/18/2026
FULL SHOW RECAP: In 2001 just weeks after the events of 9/11, the TSA and the Patriot Act reshaped American life. Elizabeth Dougherty asks the question nobody on the anniversary specials will ask… how is it possible that such a huge piece of legislation was written, passed and put into place so quickly… unless it was pre-arranged! The Justice Department is finally looking at the Big Four meat producers and the price-fixing that’s been emptying your wallet for years. Grocery Pet Peeves is back and the anger is loud and justified. Hantavirus gets the trivia treatment and the answers are more unsettling than you’d expect. Ring cameras turn out to be the easiest sell in the history of mass surveillance, and you installed it yourself. The organ transplant system is not the fair, altruistic network it was sold as. Travel news tracks hantavirus as it moves from health story to travel advisory. And ten famous restaurant failures get the autopsy they deserve, with the real cause of death on every one.
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2026-0413 ELIZABETH DOUGHERTY’S FOOD TRAVEL USA
The TRUTH About Food and Travel
Album: The TRUTH About Food & Travel 041326
Episode #: 2007
Original Broadcast Date: 04/13/26
FULL SHOW RECAP: A massive new study links chocolate, cheese, and fermented foods to longer life — but ONLY if Big Food hasn’t already loaded them with sugar. We bring back “Grocery Pet Peeves” and people are angry about the places where they shop. Elizabeth’s feature story this week is a warning for seafood lovers! She counts down the top 10 condiments you can make at home and in our “15 Years of I Told You” segment, a conversation with Scott Stevens on weather modification. Our Taste Test this week focuses on fast food burgers! Hour two follows the road. Travel news covers what’s happening on the airlines and cruise lines, and Elizabeth breaks down the top 10 little-known places to visit in Washington D.C. that most tourists walk right past. You’ll hear what’s HOT at the RV shows this year, and you’ll hear how one grocery store chain is using the grocery cart handles to predict store theft. Destination Unknown takes us inside a miniature doll house. Fifteen Years. One mission. The TRUTH about food and travel.
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2026-0309 ELIZABETH DOUGHERTY’S FOOD TRAVEL USA
The TRUTH About Food and Travel
Album: The TRUTH About Food & Travel 030926
Episode #: 2006
Original Broadcast Date: 03/09/26
FULL SHOW RECAP: The mainstream press is finally running stories about chemicals in the food supply — which means the pressure from informed consumers has gotten loud enough that ignoring it stopped being an option. Elizabeth Covers that and the FDA’s latest attempt to redefine “ultra processed” on industry-friendly terms. Server’s Revenge puts a face on the people who know exactly what’s in your food and still can’t make rent. The Top 10 Fair Foods of 2026 remind us that America still knows how to fry something glorious and hand it to a stranger. The 15 Years segment returns to Terry Ingraham’s collapsing bee colonies and the pesticide science that proved him right after it was too late to matter. A corned beef deep dive asks what saltpeter is really doing in your St. Patrick’s Day pot. On the travel side, war and a polio alert are reshaping the map, the government shutdown is degrading every point of entry, ten historical artifacts hiding in plain sight prove the best destinations reward people who slow down, and Door County, Wisconsin closes the hour with a fire, a fish boil, and a sky full of stars.
2026-0119 FOOD TRAVEL USA WITH ELIZABETH DOUGHERTY
The TRUTH About Food and Travel
Album: The TRUTH About Food & Travel 011926
Episode #: 2004
Original Broadcast Date: 01/19/2026
FULL SHOW RECAP: So, what’s on the other side of all the disagreements in our country and with each other? Food. It’s the ONE thing that will ultimately unify us… FOOD! Elizabeth takes a fresh new look at how food, and the very human experience of eating will help heal our republic. You’ll also hear how AI has invaded restaurants, the Top 10 Regional Pizza Styles in the US, and in our Taste Test this week, Elizabeth tries one of her all-time favorites, chocolate chips! In the second hour, a look at all the food and travel related news stories that you need to know, there are still fights in the not-so-friendly skies over those red hats and you’ll hear the Top 10 Valentine’s Day cruises for 2026. In our “15 years of I told You So” segment, an interview from the summer of 2015 with a former CIA official who warned us that even back then, the US was surrounded by an “unconventional war” and that we should be prepared for almost anything.
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