Let's Get Real
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First Aired - 03/07/2010 12:00PM
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Francis Schott of Stage Left Restaurant sparks a lively conversation on the prices of sustainable food. Also on the show, Marissa Sanchez & Mike Edison.
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The Main Course Introduction (14:17)
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Patrick Martins, Katy Keiffer, The Main Course, Cherryholmes, bluegrass music, art week in New York City, open galleries, Museum of Modern Art, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, e commerce meat industry, Omaha Steaks, pure breeds, custom slaughterhouse, does sustainable food truly cost more?, Pew Center, Whole Foods Market,A Discussion on Sustainable Food Prices (30:47)
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Stage Left Restaurant, Francis Schott, a good food cost is normally 28 percent, restaurant concepts sometimes determing the price point, sustainable business, The Rainbow Room, the start of modern cocktail culture, white linen tablecloth, 26 food points, candlelit, Heritage Foods USA, we have to be smarter to make things affordable, whole animal cooking, high end cuts should cost a lot, in-house skill, fat in dishes, food return cost, $4.24 a pound versus 95 cents a pound, good taste is revolutionary, the economy subsidizes non-sustainable food, no one person benefits, tiny profit margins, 3 pound porterhouse for two costs $45 and is $95 on the menu, Anne Saxelby's cheeses, www.restaurantguysradio.com, Doritos, the solution is not here yet, middle class families, Food Inc, the cost of going to the supermarket is less expensive than going to Burger King, obesity, diabetes, fast food tax, Heritage Foods raises antibiotic free pasture raised and genetically sound animals, institutionalized food, Obama administration, cynical mindset in the Republican party, partisan politics, FDA, Department of Agriculture, legislative action, Roberta's, Marissa Sanchez,Food Advertising & Brainwashing The Public Into Eating Poorly (33:09)
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Abraham Lincoln, externalizing cost, theft against the environment, dumping waste, EPA, Environmental Protection Agency, the consumer can make a difference by having good taste, food heritage as Americans, Orange New Jersey, Sanitary Bakery, advertising after World War II convinced people that Wonder bread was good, mass brainwashing, Velveeta, Spaghetti-O's, the good food palate got lost, food stands, Chipotle, anti intellectual movement, Sarah Palin, USDA conference, fresh kale, farmers market, harvest salad in the fall, dried cranberries and walnuts, how to braise a piece of cheap meat, rice and beans, there is a lot of fluff on the Food Network, Gordan Ramsey, Dan Barber, New Brunswick is one of the best urban revivals around, Stage Left employs more people per square foot than any other retail, Johnson & Johnson, real jobs for real people, restaurant business, real blue collar jobs, restaurantuers are very important, promoting farms, closing arguments, www.restaurantguysradio.com, you can make a difference in the community, local produce, local farmers, canning, pickling, Jersey tomatoes are the best in the world, how do you stay local 12 months a year?, Rick Bishop, Oaxaca Mexico, El Saber Del Sabor,MIKE EDISON IS BACK: Stories From Los Angeles (16:01)
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Mike Edison, Los Angeles, San Francisco, eating out in LA, Barney's Beanery, Bars Not Cars, you need to hire a driver in LA, weird subculture of sobriety, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Walt Disney Theater, I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World, Larry Flint, Wrestlemania, Roberta's, The Farmer's Almanac, Al Goldstein, Chris Benoit, The Fallen Angel, Satan worshiping,Celebrating Spring & New York City (34:27)
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lamb, sausage, beans, WWE, www.gothamgirls.com, velodrome, Momofuku, Newark, Oscars, Avatar, www.mikeedison.com, Back 40, jowl nuggets, the best festivals are in the spring, celebration of spring, free flowing rose wine, May 12th, Ides of March, Blades of Glory, John Heder, Cheech & Chong, Miami Vice, Al Sharpton, wrestling is all about surrealism, roller derby, Gotham Girls, Manhattan Mayhem, Hunter Collage, Saturday morning TV, Heritage Radio Network Calendar, traffic jams in LA, there's only reason to live in New York: you have to love it, we scrap too much for too little, the fighting attitude keeps New York unique, pork buns, racial riots, Howard Beach, Crown Heights, The Blackout of 1977, The Super Bowl, the greatest export America has is its culture, James Cameron, The Hurt Locker, A Serious Man, Hollywood employs a lot of people, Jay Leno, Governor Paterson, blind jokes, www.back40.com,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 10/24/2010 12:00PM
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This week on The Main Course Patrick and Katy sat down with Marion Nestle: activist, professor, and author of "What to Eat", "Safe Food", and "Food Politics". Joining the conversation was Joan Dye Gussow, another world-renowned activist in the academic and government sectors as well as the author of "This Organic Life". Together Nestle and Dye Gussow constitute an amazing meeting of the minds when it comes to championing all things sustainable, and affecting change in broken food and distribution systems, failed academic institutions, and obsolete ideas. The gang discussed food politics at large, the sticky situation of labeling food, and how to make the public see that public health is attached to domestic food policy. This episode was sponsored by 360Cookware.com.
Photo 1: Marion Nestle, Photo 2: Joan Dye Gussow
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The Main Course Introduction (5:30)
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The Main Course, Heritage Radio Network, Patrick Martins, Katy Keiffer, 360 Cookware, www.360cookware.com, Patrick was in Bon Apetit magazine, animal husbandry, animal welfare, good, clean and fair, Slow Food,Marion Nestle & Joan Dye Gussow (18:15)
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Joan Dye Gussow, Growing, Older: A Chronicle of Death, Life, and Vegetables, Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, Feed Your Pet Right, Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety, Marion is working on a book about Calories, what have the biggest changes in food been over the past few decades?, you can get food now!, 20 years ago you couldn't find good food, the quality of food has gotten better, there's always been junk food, there were no supermarkets before World War II, food philosophy, production vs distribution, marketing, high fructose corn syrup, soda tax is a very progressive idea, developments yet to come, income equity needs to change, environmental issues, symptoms of sickness in our culture, Fiji Water, delusions of being green,Food Politics: Front Package Labeling, Advertising Regulation & Linking Agriculture to Public Health (21:25)
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how do decisions in Washington affect your food prices, front package labeling, symbols on packages, American Heart Association, logos used for marketing purposes, cereal boxes, in Great Britain they put traffic lights on food products, Federal Trade Commission, regulating advertising, checks and balances for food, linking agriculture to public health, new farm bill in 2012, we should get rid of subsidies for corn and soy beans, food stamps and farmers markets, the food movement should be about democracy, chiggers have appeared in Ithica recently, global warming, climate change, bed bugs, FDA, tides, flooding, taxidermy, food museum,Legacies & Growing The Movement (44:33)
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progressive agriculture in Rhode Island, Rhody Fresh, dairy cooperative, tourism model, Carlo Petrini's legacy is his university, Patrick wants his legacy to be better the animal welfare situation in our country, UCSF, nutrition department, Joan told a story about seeing mushrooms from Missouri and other items from foreign places in Hawaii, this story changed Marion's life, Joan wants her legacy to be as a truth teller, Joan's new book, Growing, Older, dealing with the death of a partner, Marion's legacy will be food studies, from concept to state approval in 9 months, she founded the food studies department, K. Dun Gifford, Mediterranean diet issues, food systems, food & culture, food history, Amy Bentley, food historian from Colorado, what's the takeaway of the NYU food studies program?, you learn how to read write and think food, there are now many food studies programs, what role will academia play in making change?, Joan thinks very little, Cornell Bread, in World War II Clive McCay invented a health food bread, it's hard to say what you think until you have tenure, social movements, you can never tell what the causes or consequences are, collectively the food movement is focused on producing a system better for the environment and our health, terribly fragmented right now, get students to think critically about the world they are in, make the world a better place, food advocacy, book recommendations:, Omnivore's Dilemma, Food Rules, In Defense of Food, all of Marion and Joan's work, sweet potatoes,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 11/22/2009 01:15PM
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Food historian and friend of the show Andy Smith stops by to give us some context for the food we eat on Thanksgiving. Also on the show, Curtis B. Wayne.
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The Main Course Part Q: Introduction (10:00)
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Roberta's, The Main Course Part Q, Andy Smith, food historian, Curtis B. Wayne, Burning Down The House, Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine, Thanksgiving food, venison, turkey, foul, pigeon, pheasant, quail, swan, Native Americans, Edward Winslow, New England, a small footnote on a letter noted that it was the first Thanksgiving, there was no description of dinners until the 1780's, political climate, Sarah Josepha Hale, Northwood, pot pies, fall vegetables, America needed a fall holliday, The Civil War, the conformity of the foods we eat, wild rice, heritage breeds, Minesotta wild rice, green beans and gravy, cream of mushroom soup, marshmallows, egg whites and sugar, 1920's, corn syrup, holiday tradition,Wild Turkey! (10:00)
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food factoids, The New School, Drinking History, historical recipes, modern recipes, Esquire, whiskey and sugar, whiskey, turkey is the centerpiece for every description of a meal in America, pigs, the goal of Thanksgiving is to bring family together, the turkey feeds a lot of people, turkeys are smaller and faster now, big turkeys couldn't fly, wild turkeys used to be larger than domestic turkeys, enormous wild turkeys in Staten Island, rapid transit train, Patrick Martins, Naraganset breed, broad breasted white, Moses crossing the Red Sea was an original symbol idea for America, The Bald Eagle was chosen, the turkey would have been better, the turkey was an asain bird, guinne hens come from Africa, American Indians think Thanksgiving should be celebrated as a day of mourning, fish on Thanksgiving, oyster stuffing, New York Harbor was the largest oyster bed in the world in colonial and american times, Perry Rosso, wild turkeys were feared for extintion, first animal that was reintroduced to the wild sucessfully, more wild turkeys in America today than when Europeans first arrived, lyme disease, Eerie Canal, American's loved inexpensive foods, sweet potatos, Central South America, kasava, peanuts changed the economy, Washington Carver did not populize peanuts!,Peanuts, Potatos & Tomatos (13:20)
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Roberta's, peanut butter, Geroge Washington Carver, sweet potatos, peanuts as a sharecropper crop, one of the first African Americans to address Congress, peanut companies latch on to him, lard, Crisco, the Yam is an African plant that comes into America through slave trade, the sweet potato inside can be any color, Yams was slang for sweet potatos, Thanksgiving was a northern holiday, celebrated in some parts of the south, it wasn't a state holiday until the late 1900's, celebrated in the South before The Civil War, potatos started in South America then went to Europe then the United States, starch crops, food history, tomato blight, blight, rooftop garden, tomatos didn't become popular until the 1820's, The Spanish don't run into the tomato until 1518, first recipe was published in Italy in 1543, ketchup, catsup, corn, cornbread, beans, turducken, renaissance recipe,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
