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First Aired - 12/16/2009 08:00PM
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This week on Burning Down The House Skip Backus of the Omega Institute joins Jake Alspector & Gennaro Church-Brooks to discuss sustainable architecture and design.
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Burning Down The House Introduction: The Living Building Challange (13:37)
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Curtis B. Wayne, Burning Down The House, Hearst Ranch, Heritage Radio Network, Jack Inslee, Skip Backus, Omega Center for Sustainable Living, www.eomega.org, Gennaro Church-Brooks, Jake Alspector, meditation, yoga, sustainability, LEED, Living Building Challange, John Todd, The Eco Machine, the root system acts as a habitat for microorganisms, environmental classroom, waste water, gray water, sustainable agriculture, irrigation, aquifer,The Omega Center For Sustainable Living (32:15)
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The Omega Center For Sustainable Living, The Eco Machine, low carbon footprint, sustainable design is critiqued because it sometimes avoids design, waste water, solids collections, methane, ground loop heat pump, DEC, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, US Health Department, dismantled warehouse, Kingston, salvage, classroom doors, US GBC, U.S. Green Building Council, budgetary limitations, holistic thinking, year round building, Red Hook, 6 graders, two shed roofs with a flat roof in the middle, butterfly roof, greenhouse, film series, panel discussion, lagoons, sunbreaker, snow, blizzards, fresh drinking water, rain water, energy model, solar trackers, electric motor with a photo cell, three mirrors that follow the suns by the rotation of the motor, they reflect the light down onto the plants, insulated glass, energy footprint,Sustainable Concepts (13:22)
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sustainable buildings can look like a hippies armpit, sustainable design is similar to vegetarian cooking, vegetarian cooking found its own identity over time, reclaimed barn beams, recycled lumber, laminated beams, limited budget, non for profit, Reinbeck, Los Angeles, California, dispersal fields, infiltrators, discharge wells,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 11/24/2009 06:30PM
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On a special Thanksgiving edition of Why We Cook, Erica Wides gives us some things to be thankful for.
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Things To Be Thankful For: The New Amsterdam Public Market (10:26)
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Why We Cook, Erica Wides, Roberta's, Thanksgiving, Erica has been cooking professionaly for 17 years, third world, most Americans have pretty comfortable lives, Bernie Madoff, hyper cynical age, Generation X, Passover, The New Amsterdam Public Market, locavore, Heritage breed turkey, Heritage Foods USA, Patrick Martins, green market, artisanl treats, money goes directly to the producer,Broccoli Romanesco & White Anchovies (9:01)
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Roberta's menu, Rome, Italy, it's more like a cauliflour in texture, bright lime green, the flourets form a twisted spiral, fractals, has a delicious gentle brocolli flavor, roasted, blanched, served cold, mixed seasonal market vegetables, white anchovies, boquerones, anchovies, umami, small things, anchovies are a perfect secret ingredient, Kale, chic peas, garlic, Cruciferous vegetables family, broccoli romanesco, same dimensions of a head of broccoli,New York City Tap Water, PG Tips Tea Bags, Squid, Organic Rolled Oats & Flaky Sea Salt (9:56)
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New York City tap water, Erica doesn't like soda, New York has exceptionally clean and tasty tap water, we get it from resoviours in the Catskills, Westchester, Croton Dam, our drinking water is a luxury, the resources that are used are huge and wasteful, it's shameful to drink bottled water, Brita filter, some bottled waters are municipal tap water, PG Tips tea bags, squid, great texture and flavor, versatile, universal, overfishing, organic rolled oats, oatmeal, cheap as dirt, one of the best things you can eat, flaky sea salt, hand harvested salt, Heritage Radio Network, Erica is very thankful for her listeners,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 10/20/2009 04:00PM
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This week, Erin is joined by cognac specialist Nicolas Palazzi who talks labeling, aging & what to do with a 200 year old bottle.
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Weekly Wine Recap (4:03)
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Roberta's, Erin Fitzpatrick, caution against over extraction in the 09 harvest, Napa wines continue to struggle the most during this recession, This Thursday October 22nd there will be a wine tasting event at Roberta's, cherie@robertaspizza.com, Casella Wines, Yellow Tail, Filipo Casella has died at age 88, Michael Broadbent - Billionaire's Vinega, the Robertas event will feature top producers from Italy's Le Marche region,Nicolas Palazzi Talks Cognac (14:46)
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cognac, Nicolas Palazzi, Nicolas has been bottling cognac for collectors for the past year and a half, the six classes of cognac, nomenclature, region, terroir, in the cognac region you must network and gain trust to buy the high end casks, Grand Champagne Cognac, some cognac houses are being economically conscious, Paul-Marie et Fils,Private Labeling & Aging (13:26)
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private labeling, aging, single cask cognacs, blending cognacs, investing in the product, France, 200 year old cognac, distillation techniques were not as advanced back then, most cognacs used to be sold after a few months, you would have to be careful drinking such an old cognac, the cork and the cognac have the same origin, special cognacs made for collectors are not available on the market, younger cognacs are blended with older ones,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
