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First Aired - 08/15/2010 12:00PM
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This week on The Main Course Patrick and Mike sit down with Back Forty's Shanna Pacifico, Erin Fairbanks of Flying Pig Farm, Jeff Mosher of Robert Mondavi Wineries, plus a special guest from Anthology Film Archive. The gang discuss their least favorite aspects of living in NY, the fallibility of Yelpers, and why you can't have a wedding at a winery in Napa. This episode was sponsored by White Oak Pastures.
Photo: Mike Edison, Erin Fairbanks, Shanna Pacifico & Patrick Martins in studio
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The Main Course Introduction (18:19)
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The Main Course, Patrick Martins, Mike Edison, Erin Fairbanks, Shanna Pacifico, White Oak Pastures, www.whiteoakpastures.com, Zingermans', The Cult of Zingermans, Mostly Mozart, Public Enemy in Central Park, High Brow Low Brow, Savoy, Clown Interrupted, What Drives NYers up the Wall?, Dawdling Tourists, What Annoys Restaurateurs?, Seana hates Yelpers, Yelp Throwdown, if you have a problem with something at the restaurant tell the restaurant not Yelp, walking out soured, most waiters will try to fix things with a smile, no one listens to yelp, Yelp is as important as man on the street interviews, google image search, false food allergies, customer pet peeves, wobbly tables, some people aren't good at the restaurant experience, New York has a culture where the customer is not always right, Cherryholmes, Ma Peche could use a phone number, internet reservations,New Yorker Pet Peeves & The Culture of Pricing at Restaurants (20:24)
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double decker busses, Roberta's, Brooklyn Grange Farmers Market, cabbies on cell phones, smelly cab drivers, 6.2% of New Yorkers don't like hipsters, 4.1% of New Yorkers hate street fairs, arepas, 2.6% of New Yorkers don't like tip jars, Mike Edison hates silverware at Japanese restaurants, there aren't many women selling Heritage pork, would women be treated different if they were selling meat?, the dudes carrying the pork probably didn't get as much help as the girls, there's a lot of leadership from men in the industry, women are very supported by a lot of top food people, its still mostly male chefs, kitchens are dominated by men still, female TV chefs, Rachel Ray is really dumbing it down, Food Network has digressed, Party Down, behind the scenes catering, $11 hamburger at Back Forty, grass fed, paying a premium for quality product, Momofuku noodle bar, going to the movies is easily $20 a person, there should be a sliding scale for admission at the movies, IMAX, good meals are not expensive, NYC is filled with many terrible restaurants, sustainable food, economy of scale, top 10 dishes in America, mac n cheese, fried chicken, BBQ, pizza,Robert Mondavi Winery Chef Jeff Mosher (21:17)
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cows are the largest edible livestock, it's hard to move them, Josh Mosher, Napa Valley, Robert Mondavi Winery, trade related, vehicle for selling wine, Robert Mondavi is credited with founding the Napa Valley as a well known wine region, what are the food ethics of the winery?, food museums, what happened with Copia?, the timing wasn't right, the ultimate demise had a lot to do with the financial crash, does a name brand help or hurt wines, Margrit Mondavi, she loves wild strawberries, is Robert still making table wine?, Woodbridge, Private Selection, two wines that are owned by the same company but they are made at a different facility, East Coast vs West Coast, is it more preferably to be a hippie than a hipster?, Northern California movement has always been trying to shed the hippie mantra, Ubuntu, Daniel Patterson, New York hippies are hard working hippies, Robert Mondavi winery was good to Slow Food in its early days, sonoma county does weddings, Mondavi does not,Melinda Shopsin & Andy Lambert Join the Studio (21:14)
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Melinda Shopsin, Andy Lambert, archivist of the Anthology Film Archives, Andy is in charge of the collections, Shaved Elbows, Robert Downey Sr., there are only 3 prints of the film left, silent film collections, Mars Bar will never die!, Anthology Film Archives is a neighborhood institution, Charles Ludlam, Stony Awards, Dan Hedaya, Jason Mewes, Melinda is producing a documentary about the drug war, War on Drugs, it's a health problem not a crime problem, doctors should make drug policies, marijuana laws are softening, legalizing marijuana, prohibition doesn't work, prescription drugs, crack cocaine, 18 to 1 bill, The Addams Family, The Munsters, The Brady Bunch, where are the great monster sitcoms of today?,Show Wrap Up (8:29)
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civil inattention, you should never eat a bad slice of pizza in New York, there should be a tourist lane for slow moving people, we need smarter streets, people in New York don't look at street signs, Katy Keiffer is on vacation,Heritage Cooking with Steve Pope (13:20)
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the begining of fall, Germany, German cookings, Heritage Birds, simple food prepared with a German background, making do with what you have, everything was a rationed commodity during WWII, one of the main staples was chicken because it was easy to grow, chicken is fairly low maintainance, early to mid 40s, the advent of commercialized chickens had not happened in the 40s, old breed indigenous to that part of the country, using a hadnful of this and a pinch of that, the mixture has to feel right, the correct texture, individualism, baked chicken, dumplings are to Germans what spaghetti is to Italians, all Heritage birds you cook low and slow, rediscover old recipes!,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 10/05/2009 07:00PM
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Eat to the Beat explores performance artist Mike Albo's parodies.
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Introducing Performance Artist: Mike Albo (4:00)
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stand up comedy, shopping tips, New York Times, peanut butter, writer, communications, career path, poetry, diary, double Gemini characteristics,The Beauty of Advertising Language (2:29)
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media control, advertising influence, need to be loved, retail therapy, culture, language, junk mail, pop culture, brochures, entertainment, jingles, cynicism, lifestyle,Mike Albo as Tony Testa (2:45)
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clips from a skit performed live by Mike Albo, the dazzle dancers, costume, dancing, Jennifer Lopez,Fashion Tips (6:07)
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freedom, consumers, commentary, asking questions, shopping tips published by the New York Times followed by where to eat, small designers, support creative businesses, artist, expense cuts, www.MikeAlbo.com,Live Performer Acting Alone and Upcoming Appearances (10:17)
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jack of all trades, production, concern about what is being consumed, orthorexia, talent, dancing and spinning naked for a dinner party hosted by his parents, dance, dazzle dancers, www.dazzledancers.com/, www.MikeAlbo.com, loves facebook, twitter, post-it note series, readings at KGB in NYC and Pete's Candy store of Brooklyn, developing a style,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 12/14/2009 12:00PM
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This week on The Naturalist, Bernie Wides continues his discussion on astronomy with fellow Natural History Museum docent Mike Hamburg.
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The Naturalist Introduction (12:36)
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Bernie Wides, The Naturalist, 2001: A Space Odyssey, the Earth is 4.6 billion years old, the solar system formed from the same body of material, life started approximately a billion years after the formation of Earth, conditions used to be very different, there was no breathable oxygen, black smokers, deep sea volcanoes, thermal vents, we don't need direct sunshine, lightning storms, carbon based proteins and enzymes, we need water carbon hydrogen oxygen and nitrogen for life on earth, those are very common elements, out gassing of the cooling earth produced hydrogen and oxygen, the impact of hundreds of thousands of comets, early cooling periods of the earth, comets are frozen water and dust, they create bodies of water, some people believe that life traveled from another origin, viruses, panspermia, transpermia, Gaia hypothesis,Life On Earth (7:34)
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early life on Earth was very simple, when the Earth was 2 billion years old the atmosphere changed drastically, methane, carbon dioxide, little one celled organisms gave off oxygen during photosynthesis, carbon dioxide changed and free oxygen was released, life became more complex, some lifeforms got wiped out by cosmic impacts, life seems to want to be on Earth, evolution, there is not a straight line from bacteria to humans, dinosaurs, Galapagos, Mars, liquid water, Europa, Jupiter, Cambrian explosion, Darwin finches, astronomer, The Museum Of Natural History,Planets & The Night Sky (9:21)
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Hayden Planetarium Space Theater, virtual universe, Tuesday night shows, Celestial Highlights, night sky lecture, meteor showers, planets are bright enough to shine through light pollution, the word planet means wanderer, they wander compared to stars, fixed stars, stars are very far away, Jupiter,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
