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First Aired - 03/20/2011 04:30PM
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Are libraries dead? Do we need books anymore? Has digital media taken over the printed word? What does the future hold for archiving? Curtis B. Wayne & Jacob Alspector attempt to answer these questions and more on a library themed edition of Burning Down the House. Tune in to learn why more books are being printed today than every before and how libraries are, and always will be, an essential ingredient for a thriving culture. This episode was sponsored by www.WholeFoodsMarket.com
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Burning Down the House: Digitizing the World (14:31)
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Curtis B. Wayne, Burning Down the House, Fairway Market, Jacob Alspector, libraries, digitizing the world, The Six Discourses, digital browsing, simulated browsing, Amazon, nothing can replace the smell and feel of books, random discovery, Brooklyn Public Library, libraries are intertwined with our culture and history, historical data,Digital Preservation and The Rise of.....Book Production? (17:49)
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Richard Thompson, digital preservation, YouTube as a digital archive, what happens if the grid goes down?, life before the internet, why continue to build libraries?, libraries weren't always accessible to the public, private libraries, society libraries, public libraries, they are making more books than ever, book publishing business, production is up, libraries as meeting places, media keeps changing, humans are social animals, the time before slackers, Eddie Haskel,Information Explosion! (15:43)
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Wayback Machine, www.archive.org, book production, one medium does not displace another, no tool has been invented that is not still in use, over production, our brains need to recover, information explosion, e-books, NPR.org/blog/monkeysee, next big pop culture wave might be libraries, are local libraries necessary?, librarians, information exchange,Blinded by Science (13:01)
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Starbucks, people are lonely, technology is getting smaller, open marketplace of ideas, library design, digital publishing, digital readers for digital books, limited format, eBooks are here to stay, are we blinded by our technology?, ancient scrolls, books are not going away, population is booming, blinded by science,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 12/14/2009 03:30PM
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It's the holiday season what better way to prepare than with Kara Newman, mixologist and author of Spice & Ice. Kara makes some drinks on this weeks Hot Grease. Also on the show, Celia Sack of Omnivore Books.
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Hot Grease Introduction: Omnivore Books (10:29)
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Hot Grease, Nicole Taylor, Roberta's, sustainability, Heritage Radio Network, everyday folks, food enthusiasts, moms on a budget, food blogs, best of 2009, Celia Sack, Omnivore Books, The Ad Hoc Book, Jam It Pickle It Cure It, do it yourself kitchen help, Canal House Cooking, Five Spices Fifty Dishes, Barefoot Contessa Back To Basics, skillet dishes, 30 minutedishes, Alice Waters, The Art of Simple Food, Chez Panisse Vegetables, chard, Salty Sweets, nerd category, Twains Feast, vintage books, www.omnivorebooks.com, media mail,Cocktails With Kara Newman (7:58)
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Kara Newman, The New York Times, Wine Enthusiast, Gourmet, home bars, tequila, vodka, rum, triple sec, utensils, basic equipment, cocktail mixer, shaker, Boston Shaker, a muddler, julep, mixing spoon, local ingredients, organic, fruits, vegetables, Spice & Ice, seasonality, strawberries, good food movement, organic vodka, Tuttletown, baby bourbon, egg nog, hot cider, citrus, oranges, lemons, brandy, whiskey, winter, Mexican hot chocolate,"Spice & Ice" (10:57)
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Nicole Taylor, Jack Inslee, Roberta's, Spice & Ice, truly unique cocktails, fusions, blood orange jalapeno margarita, two ounces of jalapeno infused tequila, an ounce and half of triple sec, one and a half ounces of blood orange juice, half ounce of lime juice, don't pair spicy drinks with spicy foods, ginger, cinnamon, clove, the gingered apple, tow ounces of ginger liqueur, one ounce of vanilla vodka, two and a half ounces of apple cider, Red Jacket Orchard, splash of lemon juice, best paired with dessert, apple tart tatin, cayenne, shaking drinks makes them colder, blog, cocktail culture, spicy food, http://karanewman.wordpress.com/, www.twitter.com/karanewman, San Francisco,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 09/21/2009 03:30PM
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On the third episode of Hot Grease: Nicole welcomes Yonette Fleming to the studio to discuss the Hattie Carthan Community Garden in Bed-Stuy. Also, don't miss this week's Hot Five with Crystal Bobb-Semple of Brownstone Books.
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Yonette Fleming and the Hattie Carthan Community Garden (8:15)
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access to fresh food, District 36, Yonette Fleming, Hattie Carthan Community Garden, Bedford Stuyvesant, definition of a food desert, food desert=limited or no access to fresh food, 1/3 of residents live in poverty, intersection between low rates of consumption of healthy foods and high disease rates, Michelle Obama and farmers' market by The White House, Hattie Carthan Community Garden has been operating since 1991, how do we define health?, Shirley Chislom, Chislom 72, Shola Lynch, New York City election 2009,Community-Building Farming Ventures (12:45)
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Yonette Fleming, Hattie Carthan Community Garden, the story behind the garden's inception, Hattie Carthan was an activist and environmentalist, Carthan had radical ideas for change in Bed-Stuy, home to fifty fruit-bearing trees, very active community garden, health beyond machines and drugs, food beyond corn flakes and corned beef, Yonette's other community-building ventures, Yonette: the planet is my mandate, Yonette has tended to herb garden at Hattie Carthan Garden for six years, Hattie Carthan Farmers' Market-now housed on a piece of land that was once an abandoned lot, Carthan Garden now considered a farm, markets run through November 7th., harvest chard collard greens sweet peppers sweet potatoes etc, this and every Saturday until November 7th bring foodstamps coupons and senior citizens' coupons and eat locally grown foods, Harvest Drum and Movement Circle, October 10th 11AM dedication and unveiling of mural, Hattie Carthan Garden measures roughly 2 acres, fruit bearing trees, greenguerillas.org, environmental groups,The Hot Five with Crystal Bobb-Semple of Brownstone Books (9:05)
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five things on fire in the food movement, independant bookstores are a dying breed, Crystal's Hot Five reads, Mad Hungry: Feeding Men and Boys, The Sneaky Chef, how to pack kids meals with nutritious ingredients, Food and Wine 2009 Cookbook, www.brownstonebooks.com, info@brownstonebooks.com, Brownstone Books 409 Lewis Avenue Bed-Stuy Brooklyn, Vegan Soul Kitchen by Bryant Terry, The Moosewood Cookbook, Molly Katzen, Lucinda Scala Quinn,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
