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First Aired - 07/06/2010 06:30PM
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This week on Why We Cook Erica covers the delicious summertime treat that is Vietnamese iced coffee, and delves into the wonderful warm world of clay ovens. Find out what the traditional sod houses of Scandanavia have to do with eating and baking in New Hampshire, and how domes once ideal for bee-hives are now used to make the most delicious of all foods: pizza. This episode was sponsored by Tekserve: your one-stop Mac superstore and support center.
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Why We Cook Introduction: Vietnamese Iced Coffee (10:56)
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Why We Cook, Erica Wides, Tekserve, www.tekserve.com, Heritage Radio Network, Vietnamese iced coffee, a perfect drink, The French colonized Indo-China, they brought their coffee culture with them, they brough canned milk with them, steel filter contraptions, Cafe Saigon, bigger and taller because people from Saigon are richer, Dunkin Donuts coffee, Big Gulp,Clay Ovens & Straw Houses (11:42)
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egg yolks whisked with sugar, liquid tiramisu, Vietnam is the worlds second largest coffee producer, Straw Bell Construction, indestructible fire proof temperature controlled house, clay oven, New Hampshire is the granite state, clay oven on a base of granite stones, seared lamb rack, food cooked in clay oven picks up the flavor of the clay, Zatar, middle eastern herb mixture, you shouldn't eat regular bread right over the oven,Tales from the Clay Oven (7:28)
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no beehives are shaped like beehives, they are shaped like boxes, lamb racks charred over coals, singed fat, juicy lamb, ribs over the charred embers, glaze with thai chili and brown sugar, joy of cooking!, squatting by an open fire cooking big chunks of meat, the first episode of Why We Cook was about harnessing fire, next week: 50th episode!,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 10/27/2009 06:30PM
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This week's Why We Cook covers the gamut of raw, crushed, mortar and pestle sauces. You may not know that picada, pesto and muhammara are all variations on a basic culinary theme: each sauce is built on a foundation of nuts, garlic and olive oil.
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Introducing the Pesto Family of Sauces (11:35)
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ecotourism, The Cotton Tree, cacao farming, pesto synonymous with bastardized American approach to nouvelle cuisine, pesto on the verge of a renaissance in Erica's kitchen, pesto Genovese from Liguria, Liguria kept temperate by coastal breezes off sea therefore ideal herb-growing climate, pesto is made to be crushed in a mortar and pestle, pounding adds flavor, if you chop leafy herbs they lose too much flavor, if you crush as opposed to chop garlic the flavor will be less harsh and pungent,Raw, Crushed, Mortar and Pestle Sauces (10:30)
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pesto Genovese, pesto Trapanese uses almonds instead of pine nuts and Pecorino instead of Parmigiano, pesto Calabrese, other sauces of the raw crushed mortar and pestle ilk, nuts olive oil and garlic trilogy as base, romesco, romesco: grind dry or roasted red peppers with tomatoes almonds garlic olive oil and thinned out with stock, romesco good with eggs, romesco and grilled octopus, octopi are very intelligent, romesco comes from catalan region of Spain, trenette: square pasta,The Sauce Trilogy: Nuts, Olive Oil, Garlic (9:38)
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picada, parsley, picada uses dried breadcrumbs or cookies to stretch and bind sauce, thin out and warm up picada with juices from meat you are cooking, don't cook picada or pesto just warm it up, great variety in picadas, thicken with boiled egg yolks, often a recipe will come with its own recipe for the accompanying picada, muhammara: thick red paste sauce, roasted or soaked and dried red peppers, pureed with walnuts garlic and olive oil, seasoned with pomegranate syrup,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 09/20/2009 01:30PM
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Sally Fallon calls into the Q report to tell us some of the negative sides of soy & Ethan Gelber of http://www.whl.travel talks about being a responsible tourist.
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Q Report Introduction (3:43)
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The Q Report, Patrick Martins, Katy Keiffer, Weston Price Foundation, prison soy lawsuit,Sally Fallon on Saturated Fats (9:23)
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Sally Fallon, Weston A. Price, Nourishing Traditions, http://www.westonaprice.org/, low fat agenda, national policy, propaganda, saturated fats, heart disease, there is no relationship between saturated fat and heart disease or cancer, vegetable oils, margarines and spreads, processed foods, fat on meat is 50% saturated, denying the body saturated fat makes your body depend on carbohydrates, carbohydrates don't contain vitamins that are in animal fat, Dr. Atkins, vitamins, nutrition, liver, marrow and organ meat, emphasize yoke rather than white, American Protein Industry, Weston Price was a dentist, these people had high levels of k2, k2 is the animal form of vitamin k, it is found in the fat of animals who eat green grass, Africa is in many cases more plant based, Africans eat very concentrated animals such as insects and frogs, these animals are high in vitamins, in the western world, we get these vitamins from egg yolks, offal, grass feeding groups, advantages of grass feeding is in the fat, he found 14 population groups that had no cavities, vitamin k helps prevent cavities and helps neurological function,The Illinois Prison Soy Lawsuit (5:35)
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prison soy lawsuit, dangers of modern processed soy foods consumed in large amounts, in 2003 they stopped serving meat in prisons, inmates became sick from soy based diets, most of the prisons in Illinois have this problem, other prisons across America face the same problem, soy saves money and was intended to provide prisoners a healthy diet, ironically, the soy is the cause of all these problems, The Weston Price foundation is working to stop soy from being served in prisons, personal injury lawyers, it is a myth that Asians have been living on soy food, soy makes up for 1 to 2% of soy in their diets, it is usually prepared in a way that minimizes toxins, in Japan they eat tofu as a supplement, American companies are promoting more soy in Japan, modern soy products are processed in big factories, fabricated soy protein products can be harmful, tofu is made by a process that removes some toxins,Soy Alert & Raw Milk (11:41)
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soy milk, the WIC program that provides free formula promotes soy formula, public schools allow soy milk, Rod Blagojevich, high soy diets and pilot programs in schools, growth hormones added to milk, a study in Puerto Rico found early development in girls was caused by soy formula, not breast milk, raw milk, the death rate was caused by dirty conditions, where to find raw milk, thyroid problems, brain fog, weight gain, this can cause irreversible health problems, milk was pasteurized because of a high death rate amongst children, sustainable food groups are at a challenge to have the nutrition to their claims, isoflavone, http://www.realmilk.com/,Ethan Gelber of www.whl.travel Talks About Responsible Tourism (21:49)
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Richard Wrangham, transportation, tourists, tourism, etiquette, vehicle transportation, cars, automobile industry, minimizing environmental footprint, analyzing habits, change, www.whl.travel, engaging with local communities intimately, culture, cultural background, historical background, tours, off the beaten track, activities, slow travel, keeping perceptions open, networking, sustainable tourism, target destinations, street vendors, secret cafe, preserving businesses, Brazil, Southeast Asia, Cambodia, India, responsible behavior, accommodation, Philippines,Mary Travers Obituary (9:19)
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Peter, Paul & Mary, Mary Travers, Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey, and Mary Travers, Mary was discouraged from talking, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, folk music, 1960's, hippies, Bob Dylan, black panthers, revolution, Tom Wolfe, generational influence, biblical implications, The Bitter End, Greenwich Village, New York City, psychedelic revolution,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
