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First Aired - 09/07/2010 07:00PM
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This week on Why We Cook Chef Erica explores the link between illegal honey and the high holidays. Follow the trail of nasty secret Chinese honey as anti-biotics (meant to stop the spread of fungicide, which may also be in the Chinese honey) makes its way into honey, which is then repackaged and sent to other countries to avoid detection, or simply thinned out with corn syrup to become honey-flavored syrup. Then learn about honey's connection to the Jewish High Holidays, and why Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, means stuffed fish, tongue, and honey for everyone! This episode was sponsored by The Barterhouse.
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Tainted Honey (10:00)
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The Atlantic Food Page, The Atlantic Monthly's Online Food Page, tainted food scandals from China, corrupt factory owners, honey scandal, massive fraud and corruption case involving fungicide tainted honey from China, China is the world's biggest producer of honey, in the 90s China had a problem with tainted honey so they used antibiotics, China can't export honey tainted with antibiotics, what China ships is sometimes just flavored corn syrup labeled honey and is fraudulent, dumping duties, repackaging fraudulent honey to other countries, Seattle Post Intelligencer, fraud corruption and deception, we just trust food being sold to us is safe, honey has always had a health halo, a lot of products that say they contain honey don't, only buy honey from someone you trust like your local beekeeper, ask your local bee guy how they deal with diseases!, there is no actual organic certification for honey even though a lot of honey claims to be organic, Andrew Cote, your bees don't produce very much your first year of bee keeping, robbing your own bees of their honey?,Honey and the High Holidays (9:52)
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Join the Why We Cook Facebook Page!, people are being held accountable for the tainted honey, the Jewish High Holidays are beginning, Rosh Hashanah, honey cake is traditional for Rosh Hashanah, Chef Erica is a non-believer and has no religiosity, many of the best food traditions stem from religious ritual, September is the beginning of the new year because that's when school starts, dark spices and deep caramelized flavor, more Jewish-y spices than Christmas-y, milky tea with the Russian Grandma, honey cake is a pretty easy cake to make, Epicurious has good honeycake recipes, don't skimp on honey! buy the good stuff!, a lot of the bulk market honey is probably not the real deal and has fillers etc, The Land of Milk and Honey, honey is the only Kosher food that comes from a non-Kosher animal, the honey is not a product of the bee's body nor is it an animal product, honey is parve which means its not meat or dairy, vegans say honey exploits bees, the bees store honey in the Upper Deep, bees make so much honey they become honeybound, dipping apples in honey, apples in honey comes from the Ashkenazi Jews, Oregon grows some of the best fruit in the country,Food With Symbolic Meanings and Chinese Everything (7:33)
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Bao Kombucha, Rosha Homa, Jews suddenly become observant when they can leave work early, foods with symbolic meanings, round challah like the cycle of the year, its typical of Rosh Hashanah to serve tongue or head meat to symbolize the head of the year, pomegranates are used in many Rosh Hashanah traditions, some people used to call pomegranates Chinese Apples, Nappa Cabbage was called Chinese Cabbage, Cilantro was called Chinese Parsley, pomegranates come from the Arab world and made their way into Europe through Grenada, pomegranate means Apple of Grenada, Sephardic Jews have better food traditions, symbolizing the year by eating stuffed foods, a year stuffed full of blessings, Gefilte fish, Costco Gefilte Fish, Happy New Year!,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 01/31/2012 04:00PM
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This week on Unfiltered hosts Erin and Brian dive into the world hospitality with Omar Hernandez and Camille Broderick of the Hotel Americano. Get the inside scoop of what it takes to run a successful and cohesive hotel (tip: rooftop gardens are essential!). From curating a wine list to how room pricing works to how hotels stay up to date on the latest trends you can find it all in this episode. This episode is sponsored by Whole Foods Market.
"The hotel business is fun, you get to interact and know where the culture is going. . . we become a voice for what is happening in town."
"By not having a rooftop your chance of success drops 25-30 percent." --Omar Hernandez on Unfiltered
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Unfiltered: Hotel Americano (37:40)
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Unfiltered, Brian DiMarco, Erin Fitzpatrick, rose, wine, State Liquor Authority, bar map, special budgets, public databases, Omar Hernandez, Camille Brook, Hotel Americano, Chelsea, value content ratio, Mexico, rooftop hotels, communal space, hotel rooms, consolidator, comfortable, classically trained chefs, hospitality consultant, The Lion, French culinary techniques, biodynamics, Magnum White Burgundy, local wines, Chablis,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 11/20/2011 01:00PM
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Water is the defining resources of the 21st century. Learn more about our water supply and why the issues surrounding our reserves are so important on an informative episode of Straight, No Chaser with Katy Keiffer and guest Alex Prud'homme, author of "The Ripple Effect". Tune in to learn about everything from Dick Cheney's Halliburton Loophole and how it's affected the Clean Water Act, how Eastern water law differs from ours, and why climate change and population growth play an important role in how we think about our water. This episode was sponsored by Cain Vineyard & Winery.
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Straight, No Chaser: Alex Prud'homme (12:38)
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Katy Keiffer, Straight No Chaser, The Ripple Effect, Alex Prud'homme, My Life in France, Julia Child, mineral water, bottled water, water is the defining resource of this century, oil, Poland Springs, New Orleans, T Boone Pickins, aquifers, water rights, water tunnels, water supply, Denver, climate change, population growth,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
