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First Aired - 08/09/2009 12:00PM

This week on The Main Course, Patrick and guest host Shanna Pacifico are joined by special guest, acclaimed author, and beef & corn expert Betty Fussell.

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Introduction & Show Summary (10:20)

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Shanna Pacifico, Patrick Martins, The Onion, mimosa, Back 40, organic restaurants, family meal, hot dogs, Alice Waters, tortillas, Julia Child, Meryl Streep, Oprah, Betty Fussell,

Betty Fussell & The History of Corn (4:38)

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L train, beef, Deborah Madison, corn, The Story Of Corn, food books without recipes, token recipes, Mabel Normand, American regional cooking, Midwest, corn farmers, factory farming, ranching, corn has been growing here for 10,000 years, civilization, Betty Fussell,

Is The Kitchen a Living Room? (4:48)

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Michael Pollan, I Hear America Cooking, Sunday Times Magazine, New York Times, cooking has become a speculative sport, New York City, kitchens as part of daily life, James Beard, is the kitchen a living room?, eating out, I Love Lucy, dinner parties, Princeton, do it yourself, beer, chocolate, hors d'erves,

Betty's Experiences With Julia Child & James Beard (7:19)

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Julia Child, Masters of American Cookery, Emma K Fisher, Craig Claiborne, Boston, Brooklyn, Julie & Julia, puff piece, romantic comedy, acting, films, movies, Hollywood, James Beard, Portland, culinary, Garrett Oliver, Paris, France, American culture,

Beef, Food Trends & The Industrial Machine (6:04)

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White Oak Pastures, Bushwick, food trends, local organic, green, we are in a period of immense change, food networks, industrial machine is getting bigger, JBSA, economic realities, we have not begun to catch up to global economics, processed food, Italy, Spain, grocery stores, frozen food, the model for the global economy is the industrial process, China, greenies, affluence, Brazil is the worlds largest exporter of beef, self sufficiency, global affluence, Chinese beef consumption, fat as the comeback kid, American obsessions with single ingredients, beef, meat, production, coffee, Alzheimer's,

Vegans and Puritanism (3:55)

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Betty is unsympathetic towards Vegans, food is fun, pleasure, sin and salvation, livestock, life feeds on life, death is a necessary part of life, slaughterhouses, humane and inhumane practices, not eating animals will not save the planet, crab oils, Back 40, human beings are animals, plants, lobsters, Nora Ephron, Puritanism,

The Politics of Geography & Water (3:15)

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Raising Steaks, America has extreme geographies, geographies conditions culture, the East imposed it's politics on the West, land use laws come from the East, regional government, Eastern philosophy, water issues, Jeffersonian grid, pasture land, water distribution needs to be rethought, the desertification of Las Vegas, lawns are an Eastern idea,

The Secret To Staying Healthy: Questions for Betty (7:42)

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Julia Child, the secret to health is to choose your grandparents very carefully, high metabolism, McDonalds, french fries, Betty has written 11 books after the age of 55, who controls the food world?, the rise of food publications and blogging, Norman Mailer, every person is his own marketer, black garlic, tapping into fame, everybody loves food, how to cook Coyote, hunting for food, longevity, writing, communication, depersonalization, deer, Montana, Roberta's, polenta,

Show Wrap Up (4:49)

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Back 40, East Village, Denny's, slow food, Betty Fussel,

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First Aired - 01/17/2010 12:00PM

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The Main Course Introduction (11:40)

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Patrick Martins, The Main Course, Katy Keiffer, Salumi, Sam Edwards, Jimmy's 43, www.jimmysno43.com, Hearst Ranch, Brian Kenny, zebra meat, horse meat, Newt Gingrich, Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, Elliot Spitzer, Leaping Waters Farm, Jefferson Davis Highway, Benedict Arnold,

Hot 80 Year Old Women, Human Waste & Steamed Beer (26:40)

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politics, Republicans, Democrats, George W. Bush, Haiti, Jimmy's 43, beer certification class, Samuel Merritt, Civilization of Beer, www.civilizationofbeer.com, walk in refrigerator, burp castle, cookoffs, Julia Child, melted gelatin, Nick Solares, Theo Peck, Betty Fussell, the hottest 80 year olds, night soil, human waste, what can brown do for you?, UPS, yeast, living beer, unfiltered, steam beer, Frederick Louis Maytag III, Fritz Maytag,

Whole Animal Cooking, Pizza Trends & Beer Pairings (20:00)

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Salumi, Nate Appleman, butchering, whole animal cooking, boxed meats, beer pairings, strip steak, porterhouse, short ribs, Heritage Foods USA, sustainability, slaughterhouse, slaughtering, whole hog, Brooklyn Brewery Local 1, wood fired ovens, manipulate a fire to do what you want it to do, Neapolitan pizza needs 750-800 degrees, I wanna make a pizza that anyone can enjoy, Sal & Carmines, Ray's Pizza, Joe's Pizza at Bleeker St., South Street Seaport, II Brigante, chuck roll, National Cattleman's Beef Association, off cuts, difficult cuts, braising, frying, sauteing, new cuts, Freeman's, www.freemansrestaurant.com, wood is abundant in California, almond wood, Asian Longhorned Beetle, Newman Farm Pork Products, www.newmanfarm.com, Berkshire pigs, Ancient White Park, ground beef, local farm raised meats, Carlo Petrini, Slow Food, gastronomic quality, local sausage week, Union Square Market, green market, maple smoked kielbasa, lamb sausage, Flying Pigs Farm, www.flyingpigsfarm.com, there are not enough slaughterhouses in the Northeast, regionality, Virginia, North Carolina,

Scandals of the Noughts & Changes in Our Food System (26:40)

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scandals, Jimmy's 43, Heather Mills, Mia Farrow, Mary Kay Letourneau, abstinence only education, liberal run media, Elliot Spitzer, Gary Hart, Jim McGreevey, John Edwards, Mark Sanford, Robert Johnson, the rise of craft peer, public awareness of food systems, Patio Dining, Sarah Jenkins, green market, homemade pasta, Michael Pollan, the 100 mile dinner, regional approach, Snail of Approval, Medieval food history, the word Tavern has been hijacked, peco.peco.com, Hiroshima pancake, miso oden, Christian Slater, Martha Stewart, Tom Brady,

Show Wrap Up: Cicerone Certification Program & The Civilization Of Beer (30:00)

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Armandino Batali, www.salumicuredmeats.com/, Riverside Drive, what was New York like 100 years ago, transition of this city over 100 years, children factory workers, return to artisinal food production, home wine making, DIY movement, The Good Beer Seal, in 1978 Jimmy Carter passed a law allowing home brewing of beer, Jack McAuliffe, consolidation of the brewing industry, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Cicerone Certification Program, The Great American Beer Festival, www.cicerone.org, online test to become a certified beer server, beverage industry, Slow Food Nation, Carlo Petrini, education, if you know it you have a duty to teach it, gastronomes, Islam is taking over Christianity, birth control, the Vatican, women were the first brewers, monks, Jeerleaders, Dogfish 90 Minute IPA, Brooklyn IPA,

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First Aired - 08/09/2009 12:00PM

This week on The Main Course, Patrick and guest host Shanna Pacifico are joined by special guest, acclaimed author, and beef & corn expert Betty Fussell.

Whole Episode:
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Sponsored by Untitled
Hosted By Patright

Segments:

Introduction & Show Summary (10:20)

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Tags:
Shanna Pacifico, Patrick Martins, The Onion, mimosa, Back 40, organic restaurants, family meal, hot dogs, Alice Waters, tortillas, Julia Child, Meryl Streep, Oprah, Betty Fussell,

Betty Fussell & The History of Corn (4:38)

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L train, beef, Deborah Madison, corn, The Story Of Corn, food books without recipes, token recipes, Mabel Normand, American regional cooking, Midwest, corn farmers, factory farming, ranching, corn has been growing here for 10,000 years, civilization, Betty Fussell,

Is The Kitchen a Living Room? (4:48)

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Tags:
Michael Pollan, I Hear America Cooking, Sunday Times Magazine, New York Times, cooking has become a speculative sport, New York City, kitchens as part of daily life, James Beard, is the kitchen a living room?, eating out, I Love Lucy, dinner parties, Princeton, do it yourself, beer, chocolate, hors d'erves,

Betty's Experiences With Julia Child & James Beard (7:19)

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Tags:
Julia Child, Masters of American Cookery, Emma K Fisher, Craig Claiborne, Boston, Brooklyn, Julie & Julia, puff piece, romantic comedy, acting, films, movies, Hollywood, James Beard, Portland, culinary, Garrett Oliver, Paris, France, American culture,

Beef, Food Trends & The Industrial Machine (6:04)

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Tags:
White Oak Pastures, Bushwick, food trends, local organic, green, we are in a period of immense change, food networks, industrial machine is getting bigger, JBSA, economic realities, we have not begun to catch up to global economics, processed food, Italy, Spain, grocery stores, frozen food, the model for the global economy is the industrial process, China, greenies, affluence, Brazil is the worlds largest exporter of beef, self sufficiency, global affluence, Chinese beef consumption, fat as the comeback kid, American obsessions with single ingredients, beef, meat, production, coffee, Alzheimer's,

Vegans and Puritanism (3:55)

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Tags:
Betty is unsympathetic towards Vegans, food is fun, pleasure, sin and salvation, livestock, life feeds on life, death is a necessary part of life, slaughterhouses, humane and inhumane practices, not eating animals will not save the planet, crab oils, Back 40, human beings are animals, plants, lobsters, Nora Ephron, Puritanism,

The Politics of Geography & Water (3:15)

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Tags:
Raising Steaks, America has extreme geographies, geographies conditions culture, the East imposed it's politics on the West, land use laws come from the East, regional government, Eastern philosophy, water issues, Jeffersonian grid, pasture land, water distribution needs to be rethought, the desertification of Las Vegas, lawns are an Eastern idea,

The Secret To Staying Healthy: Questions for Betty (7:42)

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Tags:
Julia Child, the secret to health is to choose your grandparents very carefully, high metabolism, McDonalds, french fries, Betty has written 11 books after the age of 55, who controls the food world?, the rise of food publications and blogging, Norman Mailer, every person is his own marketer, black garlic, tapping into fame, everybody loves food, how to cook Coyote, hunting for food, longevity, writing, communication, depersonalization, deer, Montana, Roberta's, polenta,

Show Wrap Up (4:49)

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Tags:
Back 40, East Village, Denny's, slow food, Betty Fussel,

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