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First Aired - 05/08/2011 12:00PM
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This week on The Main Course, Patrick & Katy are joined by acclaimed author and friend of the show, Andy Smith. Andy leads a discussion on The Civil War & famine to promote his most recent book, "Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War". Tune in to learn about the forgotten food history surrounding The Civil War, including the birth of canned food and the industrialization of food in America. Later in the show, Linda Pelaccio joins the show as the conversation shifts to problems of famine throughout history.
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The Main Course: Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War (22:35)
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Patrick Martins, Katy Keiffer, The Main Course, Mother's Day, Andy Smith, author, Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War, food in The Civil War, famine, Confederate government, Abraham Lincoln, centralized railroads, Trans-continental railroad, cotton, plantations, nobody thought the war would last so long, rations for troops, salt, Southern cuisine, African Americans, the role of women and mother's during wartime, hunting, hunters, sustainability, self sufficient food supply, shifting from cotton and tobacco to food crops, Mississippi, The Mississippi River, Confederacy ended in 1863, Erie Canal,The Industrialization of American Food (33:26)
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Homestead Act, reconciliation, farming, mechanization of food, Cyrus McCormick, reaper, Father of Modern Agriculture, slavery, slaves, the nations first chefs and farmers, industrialization, cheap labor, immigration, canned foods, hand made cans, TV dinners, canned food, industrialization of American food, modern food, modern warfare, USDA, government owned land, Jefferson Davis, what is the Confederate flag a symbol of?, traditions, A&P, Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, New England, rocky land, Northerners were better bureaucrats, farm to table, Abraham Lincoln, education, Civil War ironies,Famine & Culinary History with Linda Pelaccio (22:50)
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Linda Pelaccio, host of A Taste of the Past, Culinary Historian, famine, starvation, The Dust Bowl, potato famine, mass famine, Africa, civilization doesn't exist without a solution to famine, anthropology, North Korea, Kim Jong-il, mono cropping, Irish potato famine, food was exported from Ireland, food distribution, isolationism, fake eggs, distribution is still a problem today, Food for Peace, governments, Culinary Historians of New York, involuntary organization, www.CulinaryHistoriansNY.org, culinary history, food of the past, thread that unites all eras,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 03/06/2011 02:00PM
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This week on Cutting the Curd, Anne returns to the State of Cheese Series - this time exploring all things dairy in the state of Massachusetts. She begins the show with Barbara Hanley of Shy Brothers Farm and later speaks with Susan Sellew of Rawson Brook Farm. Tune in to learn more about goat dairy production, how large cheese and small cheese productions differ greatly and how its always tough to separate offspring from their parents. This episode was sponsored by Whole Foods Market.
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State of Cheese: Massachusetts - Barbara Hanley of Shy Brothers Farm (22:34)
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Anne Saxelby, Cutting the Curd, Heritage Radio Network, Whole Foods Market, State of Cheese, Massachusetts, cheese trivia, Cheshire Mammoth Cheese, rebellion to tyrants is obedience to god, Barbara Hanley, Shy Brothers Farm, Hannahbelles, geotrichum, affinage, large cheese vs tiny cheese, rotating cheese, keeping the right conditions, hand made cheese, packaging, third generation farming, transitioning farmers, every industry has to change, making milk is much different than making cheese,Susan Sellew of Rawson Brook Farm (23:29)
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Susan Sellew, Rawson Brook Farm, goats, goat cheese, homesteading, 85% of the business is local, women in cheese, collective conscious, Susan sold the cheese illegally out of her house to begin with, took 4 years to build a barn, cheese people with background in the arts, farmers making cheese with milk, it's hard to find time to get away from the farm, farm interns, Redwood Hill, Jennifer Bice, kidding season, newborn goats, separating kids from parents, bottles are labeled with the moms name, Susan didn't lose a single kid last year, farmstead cheese, labor and feed, production is all about nutrition, monteray chev, Monterey Chevre,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 01/17/2011 03:30PM
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Nicole Taylor pays tribute to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on an inspiring episode of Hot Grease. She is joined by guests Meg Paska, Annie Novack and Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie. Tune in and learn why there is much more to this hero than his famous "I Have A Dream" speech. This episode was sponsored by White Oak Pastures. For more information visit www.whiteoakpastures.com
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Hot Grease Introduction: Meg Paska & Annie Novack (11:58)
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Hot Grease, Nicole Taylor, Heritage Radio Network, White Oak Pastures, Meg Paska, pie contest, 4th Annual Brooklyn Pie Contest, raising funds for BK Farmyards, decentralized farming organization, Annie Novack, Growing Chefs, food education organization, teaching children about food from field to fork, www.growingchefs.org, symbolic ingredients for a pie, well raised meat, grassfed beef, food movement in Brooklyn could best be summed up with a meat based pie, www.rooftopfarms.org,Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie (11:11)
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Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie, author of Hog & Hominy: Soul Food From Africa to America, social and cultural movements, celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., mobilizing people, the role of food in the Civil Rights movement, The Club from Nowhere, raising money from Baked Goods for Civil Rights, southern food, regional foods associated with justice fighting, unseen people in the movement, Georgia Gilmore, Montgomery Improvement Association, The Kitchen Sisters, NPR, Hidden Kitchen, Southern Foodways Alliance, John T. Edge, it's important to remember how MLK died, fighting for sanitation workers,Closing Thoughts on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (9:25)
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Dr. King believed that truth is beauty, there are people in this world who still fight the good fight, everybody has a different view on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., everybody has their own fight, Nicole wishes people would dig deeper into the life of MLK beyond the I Have a Dream speech, the last year of his life he stared talking more about the Vietnam War and basic human rights, Larabars, Adriana Valez, Spoke the Hub, 30% of Americans have off today,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
