At Aspen Ideas Climate, Corby sat down with three of Chicago’s most influential food-world figures, Prairie Grass Cafe’s Sarah Stegner, Obama Presidential Center chef Cliff Rome, and Frontera’s Rick Bayless, for a conversation that pushes past the usual “food is medicine” talking points. They dig into what it actually takes to rebuild a local food economy from scratch: the farmer’s market that started with five vendors and grew into 45, the no-interest loans that became a multimillion-dollar family-farm foundation, and the vacant-lot garden that taught one chef more about food than any cooking school. Along the way, the panel tackles the tension in the phrase “food is medicine” itself, the real economics of buying local versus buying at a grocery chain, and why teaching people to cook again may matter more than any policy fix.