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First Aired - 05/10/2011 12:00PM
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This week on Cooking Issues, Dave is joined by Chad Solomon and Christy Pope of Cuffs and Buttons. Tune in to hear some tips from the cocktail experts themselves on everything from phosphoric acid to aromatic drinks. Dave also answers listeners questions on topics such as cellulose, BBQ & used restaurant equipment. This episode was sponsored by Heritage Foods USA.
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Cooking Issues: Cuffs and Buttons (18:22)
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cellulose, diets, Blunch, Dave Arnold, Cooking Issues, Heritage Radio Network, food talk radio, Heritage Foods USA, Chad Solomon and Christy Pope, Cuffs and Buttons, Dale DeGroff, Milk & Honey, Pegu Club, Cellar Bar', Bryant Park Hotel, craft cocktails, bulking up food to make it creamier, food completely from cellulose?, one meal before dinner, cutting carbs, be regimented during the day, give yourself no choices, Fool Medames, used restaurant equipment,Phosphoric Acid, On-Air Drinks & The MCC Opening Gala (20:09)
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rapid nitrous infusion, wooded carbonated drinks, American oak, worst drink Dave ever made was a carbonated Manhattan, Phosphoric acid, club soda, acid phosphate, Art of Drink, fruit, acids, too much phosphoric acid can reduce bone density, Manhattan Cocktail Classic, New York Public Library, Opening Gala, Dave is making non alcoholic drinks, bonded apple brandy, malic acid, coriander, mint, date syrup, julep style, coriander soda, aperitif negroni, aromatic drinks, hot drinks, spice, The Art of the Cocktail,BBQ, Charcoal & Pig Manure Chicken (15:47)
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Rocktail Culture, chocolate from coffee beans?, dry aging beef, trimmings, BBQ, barbecue, Alton Brown, burning propane, smoking, wood, combusting charcoal, carbon dioxide, smoke penetration on meat, get your surface moisture down to about 10%, gas grills vs charcoal grills, Maillard reaction in eggs, MoFaD West Coast event, Museum of Food & Drink, pig manure, if you grow your chickens over moldy bedding you can get a moldy flavor in your meat, chickens raised in pig manure, www.CuffsAndButtons.com,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 02/15/2011 12:00PM
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You've got issues - Dave's got answers. Tune into the latest episode of Cooking Issues for help with topics such as tempering chocolate and cooking authentic French macaroons at home. Learn more about okra, nopales and almond paste and also hear Dave get stumped on air for the very first time! Also tune in to hear a heartbreaking Valentine's Day rejection story. This episode was sponsored by Hearst Ranch - the nations largest single source supplier of grassfed and grass finished beef.
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Cooking Issues Introduction: Food And Drink Museum & Tempering Chocolate (19:06)
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Cooking Issues, Dave Arnold, Nastassia Lopez, Heritage Radio Network, sympathy carnations, Dave's first successful Valentine's day was when he was 20, preserved lemons, indian lime pickles, salt curing citrus, Museum of Food and Drink, fundraiser Sunday March 27th, $250, 5 hour extravaganza, Del Posto, Wiley Dufrense, caveman food, Mark Ladner, ancient Rome, Nils Noran, fad diets, Cesare Casella, shriveled meat, Carlo Mirarchi, New York food circa early 1900s, Brooks Headly, Hebrew food and Italy, Christina Tossi, space food, Audrey Saunders, Thomas Waugh, Pernot Ricard, Damon Boelte, David Chang, http://mofad.eventbrite.com, tempering chocolate in the microwave, type 4 beta prime crystals, The Science of Chocolate,In Defense of Okra (11:59)
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caller question, nitrous infusion, what would happen with honey or scented syrup?, cloudy water affect, water and ethanol, heating it up increases solubility, okra, nopales, extracting the slime, commercially used cactus based thickening agents, thickening,Funky D & Macaroons! (14:36)
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authentic French macaroons, how to accomplish the flat polished look, try use a finer grade of sugar, deflate your egg whites, if the oven is too hot it will puff up and collapse too fast, leave your oven door ajar, ground almond paste and sugar with egg whites, the word macaroon came from macaroni, coconut was added later, double decker macaroons, fat content in almonds, almond paste, food science, Dave USES science to make food, The Curious Cook, Harold McGee, you need friends in the food world, eat as much as you can, Dave will be starting his own consulting company on March 1st,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 01/04/2011 12:00PM
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On the first episode of Cooking Issues in 2011, Dave & Nastassia are reunited in the studio and there are many issues to be resolved. Dave fields questions about home carbonation, infusing vinegar, essential oils, differences between starches and the music behind the show. Tune in and find out why Dave owes iSi an apology and why curing turkeys will salt might not kill you! This episode was sponsored by The Barterhouse. For more information visit www.thebarterhouse.com.
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Cooking Issues Introduction: Welcome to 2011 (21:38)
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Cooking Issues, Dave Arnold, Nastassia Lopez, Heritage Radio Network, The Barterhouse, whip cream makers, nitrus, ISI, can you infuse vinegar?, every ingredient has different infusion time, pickling, quick pickles, curing turkey with salt, curing ducks outside with salt, also using whole cloves of garlic, preventing bacteria, venison, deer, DIY circulator, boneless venison loin, differences in temperature compared to beef?, truffles stopping egg whites from setting, using pectin x for sweet potatoes, ALWAYS cover your circulator so the liquid does not evaporate,Sweet Potatoes, Tubers & More (9:36)
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden Series, small guides, you can get them online, Buried Treasures Tasty Tubers of the World, sweet potato, starch, different from regular potatoes and tapioca, tapioca is used for pearls in bubble tea, kettle drum shape, National Starch Corporation, tapioca starch is well known for being bland, taro, giant taro,Home Carbonation Systems & The Music Behind Cooking Issues (23:22)
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carbonation, iSi Twist and Sparkle carbonation, Co2 cartridges, not always accurately weighed out, for bars who don't want to invest in a carbonation system, for home made seltzer you should go for a soda stream, distillation, home made essential oils, Mandy Aftel, pectins, steam distillation for essential oils, butane extraction, making honey oil out of weed, AeroPress, coffee, problems with stuff spraying out, solubility of volitables, shifting ionic balance with mess with the protein structure, brining, the Cooking Issues music!,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
