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First Aired - 03/16/2010 05:00PM
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sponsored by The Good Beer Seal - Chuck Duffney & B.R. Rolya talk about new craft beer from France & Italy and give some NYC St. Patrick's Day bar suggestions.
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Beer Sessions Introduction (15:55)
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Jimmy Carbone, Samuel Merritt, Beer Sessions, Heritage Radio Network, The Good Beer Seal, www.thegoodbeerseal.com, Chuck Duffney, B.R. Rolya, St. Patricks Day, strong beer is the milk of the old, beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy. hangovers are proof that we are not yet in heaven, those who drink beer will think beer, www.dieseldrafts.com, Jimmy's No. 43, Saint Patrick, Ireland, he drove snakes off the island, UK Beer Night, Ireland isn't noted for having great beer, cask is an old way to serve beer, the beer isn't finished when it leaves the brewery, fermentation, Camra, campaign for real ale, www.camra.org.uk/, Guinness, low carbonation, beer engine, creamy feel and light body, nitrogen pores, England, Shelton Brothers Imports, www.sheltonbrothers.com/, English traditional ale, Chelsey Ale's, Gingerman, Flying Tiger, local beer, some beers are not built for travel, ale yeast, guidelines for keeping beer, Cicerone Certification Program, March 29th and April 5th there are seats available in the class, www.cicerone.org/, beer is as vulnerable than milk and eggs, craft beer bars, draft beer setups, Dan Shelton, traditional spring beer, Mars Brewery, Bamberg Germany, bock beer, wheat yeast, cloves, bananas, keller bier, smoked beers,French Craft Beers, Beer Agriculture & St. Patrick's Day Bars (16:39)
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lower alcohol session strength beers with a lot of flavor, North France, French craft beer, malt forward, there isn't much brewing history in France, Bière de Garde, French craft beer movement, French Craft Brewers Association, The French Revolution of Beer, industrial lagers, chestnut flour, locally grown barely and hops, Yakima valley, hops are sourced in bulk and cheaply, barely tends to be grown mostly for other purposes, it takes three years to turn a field of hops, New York state hops, hops blight, Cornell University, skunking is a chemical reaction between light and hops compounds, Jimmy's No 43, Blind Tiger, The Gingerman, The Spring Lounge, The Ear Inn, Puck Fair, Lucky Jack's,B.R. Rolya's Early Beer Discovery & A Discussion on Belgian Beer (16:18)
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Belgium, NATO, Brussels, B.R. first tasted beer at age 5, kid sized beer mugs, milk stout, Guinness is more of a dry stout, lactose is a non fermentable sugar, adds body to the mouth feel, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mother's Milk, range and variety of flavors, monastery brews, small breweries, import market to the US, old fashioned beers, American style brew pubs, contract brewing, Scandinavian breweries, beer based on season and time of the day, Brooklyn IPA, home brews, Shelton Brothers beer tasting, Bink Blond, Christoffel Blond, Taras Boulba, Farmhouse Ales, Phil Markowski, $10 beer tastings at Jimmy's No 43 on Tuesday's, McKellars event at Blind Tiger, Thurday March 18th vintage beer night at Barcade,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 01/10/2010 03:30PM
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On the debut episode of We Dig Plats, Carmen Devito & Alice Marcus Krieg introduce themselves and give brief histories of the thistle & the fig.
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We Dig Plants Introduction (10:40)
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Carmen Devito, Alice Marcus Krie, We Dig Plants, Heritage Radio Network, Roberta's, Hearst Ranch, gardening, http://www.groundworksgardens.com, Groundworks Inc., horticulture, The New York Botanical Garden, art history, Piet Oudolf, The Large Meadow, Italian heritage, Brooklyn gardening, Merchant Ivory Productions,The Story Of The Fig (10:11)
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fig, exotic, strangely wrapped sculptures, plastic, fig trees, mulberry, ficus, injecting eggs into the flowers, wasps feed on developing fruit, pollination, the fig tree easily reproduces from cuttings, Romulus and Remus, Garden Of Eden, Buddhism, the fig tree comes from western Asia, Mesopotamia, Athens, how did the Fig end up in the New World, market protection, each family in Cuba was allowed one fig tree, New York City area is in zone 7, you can take a cutting of a friends fig tree, you can have fruit in two years, they don't keep long in the refrigerator,The Story Of The Thistle (10:10)
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thistle, cultivation, Scotland, vikings, Butterfly & Thistle, the thistle is misunderstood, the search of honey amidst thorns, it protects itself yet offers nourishment and sweetness, the thistle is stereotyped, the stems grow two feet high, long and narrow leaves, irregular teeth, yellow white or pinkish purple flowers, the entire plant is covered with a thing soft silky down, the thistle was first found in Europe and in Asia, biblical connotations, thorny nastiness found where good soil exists, the thistle was Gods wrath to Adam for eating the apple, weed control, you cannot control the thistle, http://www.supercompuglobal.com/, theme song by Paul Andrew Watling,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 11/18/2009 08:00PM
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This week on Burning Down The House, students give reactions on the eloquence & architecture theme. Each student focuses on an individual building, project or theme.
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The Beekman Tower (14:38)
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Hearst Ranch, Curtis B. Wayne, Burning Down The House, Cooper Square, Cooper Union, Roberta's, architecture and eloquence, The Beekman Tower, base structure that includes a school, silvery tower above, Holland, Utrecht, Nassau, building wrapped in metal, titanium, Frank Gehry, steel core, rentals, Hudson River, lower Manhattan, art deco buildings, voluptuous geometry,American Indian Aesthetic Sensibilities (14:44)
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the man made grid of New York, loss of spirituality, pueblos, the four corners, The Grand Canyon, American ruins, sustainable agriculture, Native Americans, community, resources, nomads, walls are rock, kiva, connection to dark underworld, solar pattern of daytime,Universidad Central de Venezuela (16:18)
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Universidad Central de Venezuela, Juan Carlos Villanueva, project housing, Lake Titicaca, veinte tres de enero project, gardening, temperate, government projects, society must take it upon themselves, unwanted gifts are a terrible idea, economically elitist, social contract, Gehry building at MIT, mountains as a restriction, big projects that wipe out an indigenous form of building, there are some things you simply can't do as an architect, modernist shtick: we through construction can change the world, mega, structures, Caracas,Stuyvesant Town & City Planning (15:41)
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Stuyvesant Town, City Planning, affordable housing, plots, post war development, Peter Cooper Village, Little Italy, monotonous brick, Jane Jacobs, Robert Moses, FDR Drive, West Side Highway, Southern State Parkway, planning on the urban scale, Mulberry St., ghost town, winding paths, density and landscape, the tower in the park, Jacob Riise Housing, landscape architects, Battery Park City, in developing Stu Town families churches and schools were destroyed,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
