This weeks topic is food. To talk about the topic Ramazan and Mete invite a food specialist to the show, Darcy Gungor, and she talks about food as it relates to International Students. Within this limited time frame, Darcy does a great job explaining where we can find food, especially specialty products that can be used to cook the dishes you eat back home.

Here are the links we mention in the show:

• List of American Supermarkets (national and regional): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarkets_in_the_United_States
• List of Online Grocery Stores: http://mashable.com/2008/06/05/online-grocery-shopping
• Directory of CSA Options and Farmers Markets: http://www.localharvest.org/
• List of Local Food Festivals: http://www.foodreference.com/html/us-food-festivals.html

Ramazan and Mete talks about the purpose of Edcasts, yes and yet once again, and give pretty interesting statistical information about the number of international students in the US. You can find the statistics at the following link:

• Source: Institute of International Education
  
• http://www.opendoors.iienetwork.org/file_depot/0-10000000/0-10000/3390/folder/68485/Open+Doors+Fast+Facts+2008.pdf

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• Elizabet talks about next weeks topic

• Introductions
• Story of the creation of this network
• Disclaimer
• Talk about Our purpose for this podcast: To tell stories about the life of an international student in the US, to create a platform for international students to share their experiences.    
• Podcasting and its possible use as a tool to create communities etc.

Even though, what we offer on this site are more commonly called âpodcastsâ we prefer the term âwebcastsâ over the former as we believe that the name podcast lead many people to think that they will need an iPod and Appleâs proprietary software iTunes to listen to us. We both use iTunes and iPods ourselves, so if that is how you choose to listen to us, that is great. We would like to stress, though, one can use any portable media player along with a receiver program (also known as podcast aggregator) to listen to us. You can download the audio files we make available on your computer, transfer them to a portable media player (an MP3 player) and listen to them at your convenience. In fact, you can also listen to us directly from your computer (either using the Flash player on this site, or by downloading the audio file and playing it on your computer), or you could even burn audio CDs and play them in your car. Even though iTunes and its online store are often used to find and download âpodcastsâ, there are very good other receiver programs such as Juice (http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/).

As long as you are able to listen to our programs, we do not care about the tools that you are using or whether you prefer to call what we are doing podcasting or webcasting.  We welcome you to EdCasts.net and are looking forward to hearing from you. Tell us what you think about our webcasts. You can post on this site, or you can also e-mail us at edcasts@gmail.com.

Disclaimer
We, Ramazan Gungor and Mete Akcaoglu, study and work at The Pennsylvania  State and Michigan State Universities, respectively. We would like to stress that the ideas presented  on our website and in our podcasts are solely personal opinions, and do not express or reflect the views of either The Pennsylvania State University or Michigan State University.