Corby Kummer joined Boston Public Radio’s Jim Braude and Margery Eagan for a wide-ranging conversation that moved from the urgent to the everyday. Corby detailed the bureaucratic chaos unfolding inside the SNAP program  where staffing cuts and a new federal bill have left hundreds of thousands of families, including 200,000 children in Arizona alone, unable to access benefits they’re legally entitled to. He also unpacked the FDA’s “generally recognized as safe” loophole that keeps more than 200 food additives banned in Europe but still common in American food, including potassium bromate in flour. The conversation then shifted to the nearly forgotten shad fish, a springtime staple that fed Revolutionary War soldiers, and closed with a deep dive into meal timing: why eating like a king at breakfast and a pauper at dinner aligns with human circadian rhythms, and what Italian food culture actually gets right that the rest of us miss.