Welcome to another installment of The Main Course, hosted by Patrick Martins. On this week's episode, Patrick is talking about some of the new changes at Heritage Foods USA, including the new membership program, and some shipping discount offers. Patrick plays one of Jack Inslee's post-produced pieces from Dave Arnold's Cooking Issues about MSG and the common misconceptions surrounding its healthiness. Later, Patrick interviews Kathleen Heitz Myers of Heitz Cellar in Napa Valley, California. Patrick and Kathleen talk about the logistics running a small, family-operated artisan business. Also, tune in to hear discussions regarding the harvesting of wine grapes, as well as the terroir of the Napa Valley that make it one of the best places in the world to produce wine. This episode has been brought to you by White Oak Pastures.

"Sometimes when you're growing a company the idea is to get to a certain size and sell it. That's not our goal, our goal is eventually to pass it on to another generation."

"We don't release our Cabernet until it's 5th year, so there's a lot of capital held up in the mean time."

"What makes the Napa Valley such a great region is the Mediterranean climate, what makes it so special to me is the sense of community. We're all trying to achieve the same thing - 95% of the Napa Valley wineries are family owned." -- Kathleen Heitz Myers on The Main Course

This week on The Morning After, Jason takes the show deep into the world of wine and cheese with guests Abe Schoener, Proprietor and Winemaker at Scholium Project & Red Hook Winery and Elizabeth Chubbuck, Murray’s Cheese, Associate Director of Wholesale. Tune in to learn what an "OG" is in terms of cheese and what business plans and models prove to be most successful for winemakers and wineries. Also hear from Steven Solomon, a.k.a. Stickermeister, graphic designer for Terroir and Hearth. This program was sponsored by Fairway Market.

"One of the amazing charms of making wine is that amount of vineyard area in the world is absolutely limited. We probably don't know all the places in the world that can produce great wine, but we know ALMOST all of them and it's so expensive to expand."

--Abe Schoener, Proprietor and Winemaker at Scholium Project & Red Hook Winery on The Morning After

The Morning After celebrates the end of 2011 with a fun lineup of guests in the studio. Jason Colucci speaks with Erin Hoover from City Harvest, Philip Gilmour of Momo Sushi Shack & John Magazino of Baldor Specialty Foods. Later on the show, rapper Brooklyn-based rapper Jenatari performs live on the show! Tune in for a new job listing from 86List.com and some sneak peaks for what The Morning After has in store for 2012. This episode was sponsored by S. Wallace Edwards & Sons.

"The quality of farm raised caviar is really improving"

--John Magazino on The Morning After