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First Aired - 03/22/2010 05:00PM
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Part 2 of Deborah Schapiro's interview with Eric Warnstedt.
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Cooks & Books Introductoin: Eric Warnstedt Part 2 (28:27)
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Deborah Schapiro, Cooks & Books, Whole Foods Market, Heritage Radio Network, James Beard House, Team Vermont, Food & Wine, Gourmet top 100 farm to table restaurants, romantic restaurants, Ft. Lauderdale, Johnson & Wales University, Shelburne Farms, sustainability, pork cheek, pork bellies, pork belly, what's next for Eric?, Hen Of The Woods, kitchen equipment, Vermont, menu items, local feta cheese, lamb, olives, cheese, home cooks, understanding of general food techniques, stay at a slow pace when cooking at home, peeling shallots, what food could you not live without?, peperoni, what's it like when a team of chefs get together, Mark Timms, The Kitchen Table, high fat content butter, sauteed hen of the woods, shallots and thyme, Eden's Iced Cider,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/03/2010 06:30PM
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This week, Erica pays homage to all foods yellow. Specifically, we learn about the mind body benefits of the under-appreciated turmeric plant and the rich cultural and personal history of Cheese Doodles. This show was brought to you by Hearst Ranch, purveyors of fine grass-fed beef.
Photo 1: Morrie Yohai, inventor of the Cheez Doodle, Photo 2: turmeric powder
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Why We Cook Introduction: What's for Breakfast? (10:00)
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Erica Wides, Why We Cook, Heritage Radio Network, Hearst Ranch, the color of the breakfast Erica ate today, Quinoa, varied preparation, peaches, Bulgarian feta cheese, the golden color of the peach and quinoa was beautiful, Erica is on a mission to eat more turmeric, it's a powerful anti inflammatory food, cancer fighter and tumor killer, turmeric is eaten a lot in India, it's been used medicinally for thousands of years, curcumin, powdered turmeric, yellow ginger, Beliz, Andrew Cote, summer peaches, feta makes everything better, buckwheat honey,Remembering The Cheez Doodle & Morrie Yohai (10:00)
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yellow foods, Erica reads her news online, she doesn't like the smell and feel of newspaper, plus: it creates too much waste, New York Times, Mitch Miller died this week, Sing Along with Mitch, the inventor of the Cheez Doodle died!, Morrie Yohai, the most opposite food form of the breakfast Erica ate, edible food like substance, surplus corn mean turned into a slurry and put it through a machine that sprays it, mixed with air injected with gas and shot out as a big long continuous worm, sliced by blades into two inch doodles, doodles are sprayed with dehydrated cheddar cheese power then baked, Cracker Jacks, Erica was not allowed to have junk foods in her house, Erica remembers what Cheez Doodles meant to her as a child, Erica vowed as a child that when she grew up she would live on junk food,Turmeric, Coloring & Yellow Foods (10:00)
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Morrie was the son of Turkish Jews, a culture that is renowned for its healthy cuisine, the most turmeric people ingest without knowing is a coloring agent, it's used in mac n cheese to give it color, the primary coloring agent in mustard, used in margarine and chicken broth, there is no turmeric in Cheez Doodles, turmeric is used as a flavor in the rest of the world, gives curry it's yellow color, Masala, also used in Indian pickling, also used in Persian and Iranian dishes, padang style curry,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/18/2009 06:30PM
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This week on Why We Cook, Erica continues her exploration into vegetables with Zukes, Cukes & Melons.
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The Death Of Erica's Tomato Plants & Cucumber Musings (10:30)
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Th'Idiot - Bedtime Acid, Tekserve, Erica Wides, tomato blight, Union Square Farmers Market, organic potting soil, planning for tomato crop, deer ate all of Erica's tomatoes, locavore, summer crops, vegetables, zukes, cukes & melons, summer squash, cucumbers, zucchini, cucumbers can also be cooked, kappa maki, cucumber sushi, Kawataro, history and folklore behind the word kappa, the Japanese think Yamakas look like kappas, waxed supermarket cucumber, seeds, industrial, used to pickles, seedless cucumbers cost more, lemon cucumbers, industrialized agriculture has narrowed selection down, heirloom tomato plants, Erica's tomato plants have been destroyed, Kirby cucumbers, there are hundreds of varieties of cucumbers,Cooking with Cucumbers: Riding the Wave of Julia Child Nostalgia (7:25)
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salads, dill, sour cream, buttermilk, salting cucumbers, yogurt, garlic & herbs, squeeze out the juice for use with cocktails, mix it with gin and lime, basil, radicchio, Culinary Institute, Julie & Julia, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, sweet breads, brain, mornay sauce, pickles, brine, celery, blanched carrots, green tomatoes, firm peaches, green beans, mushrooms, cucumber juice gelatin, riding the wave of Julia Child nostalgia, baked cucumbers in cream, sautéed,Attack of the Squash People (6:38)
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Marge Piercy - Attack of the Squash People, poem, zucchini the size of a short mans leg, leave zucchini raw, don't cook them, mandolin on thin slicer setting, shave zucchini length wise thin as possible, make a dressing out of white miso, garnish it with shredded nori, if you cook zucchini let it caramelize, roasting or grilling, cook out the water, let it caramelize, stuffed zucchini with shallots, garlic, breadcrumbs, white wine, olive oil, Provence, smaller zucchini are better, the bigger, the blander, harvesting zucchini is difficult, growing zucchini,Melon Preparations: The Taste Of Summer (3:06)
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melons, salt, feta, prosciutto, South America, Italy, melon is more than a dessert, watermelon with feta, olive oil and mint, culinary alchemy, the taste of summer, cracked black pepper, shave melon with mandolin, hot chili, grilled chicken, grilled fish, vino verde,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
