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First Aired - 08/25/2009 06:30PM
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On this week's Why We Cook, Erica celebrates a handful of outcast veggies and shares preparations to curry your favor towards the beet, cauliflower and lima bean. Don't sleep on these nutritious delights!
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The Cast off Vegetable (7:45)
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overall quality of produce improved, beet, okra, lima beans, cauliflower, if you think you don't like it it probably wasn't cooked right, don't miss out on marginalized veggies, vegetables, uncommon preparations, leave your comfort zone, beet greens, Erica's childhood beet experiences, before sugar cane cultivation all sugar in diets came from beets,The Veggies You Think You Hate (11:05)
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roasted beets, earthy texture, the smaller the beet the better, faster cooking, rub down with olive oil and seasoning, place in shallow pan, place in oven at 400 degrees until very soft, cook at least an hour, wear gloves, once peeled quarter add olive oil and salt and serve warm or chilled, beets can be eaten raw, juice your beets and boil down to a syrup for vinaigrette, okra, came to US with slaves from southern Africa, goo inside okra, goo comes out when stewed, cook okra quickly and goo will stay inside, buy short okra, related to hybiscus, stewed okra, high nutritional value, high fiber, the less you cook okra the better, goo is soluble fiber, stabilizes blood sugar, curbs absorbtion rate of sugar, strips cholesterol from body, lima bean, named for Lima Peru, try lima beans fresh for a religious vegetable conversion, simmer or stew or sautee, succotash, embrace the lima bean!, red and white striped beet, trim beet,Consider the Cauliflower (10:02)
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cauliflower, Mark Twain, don't boil cauliflower!, roast cauliflower, roast at 400 degrees until crispy and caramelized, coax along with oil to raise surface temp, sugars don't caramelize under 400 degrees, must add oil to raise temp!, green cauliflower, orange and purple varieties, less pigments in food less nutrition in food, peel stem and eat inside raw, tempura cauliflower leaves, Dr. Atkins, Erica did recipe development for Atkins, boil or roast cauliflower then puree and mash as a sub for potatoes, steam then toss with vinaigrette, sautee in mustard oil, add whole mustard and cumin seeds, add ginger garlic, add blanched cauliflower florets, add diced cooked potatoes, add salt and cilantro, cabbage cousin, coax the sweetness out slowly, be good to your veggies they'll return the favor,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 09/20/2009 01:30PM
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Sally Fallon calls into the Q report to tell us some of the negative sides of soy & Ethan Gelber of http://www.whl.travel talks about being a responsible tourist.
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Q Report Introduction (3:43)
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The Q Report, Patrick Martins, Katy Keiffer, Weston Price Foundation, prison soy lawsuit,Sally Fallon on Saturated Fats (9:23)
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Sally Fallon, Weston A. Price, Nourishing Traditions, http://www.westonaprice.org/, low fat agenda, national policy, propaganda, saturated fats, heart disease, there is no relationship between saturated fat and heart disease or cancer, vegetable oils, margarines and spreads, processed foods, fat on meat is 50% saturated, denying the body saturated fat makes your body depend on carbohydrates, carbohydrates don't contain vitamins that are in animal fat, Dr. Atkins, vitamins, nutrition, liver, marrow and organ meat, emphasize yoke rather than white, American Protein Industry, Weston Price was a dentist, these people had high levels of k2, k2 is the animal form of vitamin k, it is found in the fat of animals who eat green grass, Africa is in many cases more plant based, Africans eat very concentrated animals such as insects and frogs, these animals are high in vitamins, in the western world, we get these vitamins from egg yolks, offal, grass feeding groups, advantages of grass feeding is in the fat, he found 14 population groups that had no cavities, vitamin k helps prevent cavities and helps neurological function,The Illinois Prison Soy Lawsuit (5:35)
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prison soy lawsuit, dangers of modern processed soy foods consumed in large amounts, in 2003 they stopped serving meat in prisons, inmates became sick from soy based diets, most of the prisons in Illinois have this problem, other prisons across America face the same problem, soy saves money and was intended to provide prisoners a healthy diet, ironically, the soy is the cause of all these problems, The Weston Price foundation is working to stop soy from being served in prisons, personal injury lawyers, it is a myth that Asians have been living on soy food, soy makes up for 1 to 2% of soy in their diets, it is usually prepared in a way that minimizes toxins, in Japan they eat tofu as a supplement, American companies are promoting more soy in Japan, modern soy products are processed in big factories, fabricated soy protein products can be harmful, tofu is made by a process that removes some toxins,Soy Alert & Raw Milk (11:41)
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soy milk, the WIC program that provides free formula promotes soy formula, public schools allow soy milk, Rod Blagojevich, high soy diets and pilot programs in schools, growth hormones added to milk, a study in Puerto Rico found early development in girls was caused by soy formula, not breast milk, raw milk, the death rate was caused by dirty conditions, where to find raw milk, thyroid problems, brain fog, weight gain, this can cause irreversible health problems, milk was pasteurized because of a high death rate amongst children, sustainable food groups are at a challenge to have the nutrition to their claims, isoflavone, http://www.realmilk.com/,Ethan Gelber of www.whl.travel Talks About Responsible Tourism (21:49)
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Richard Wrangham, transportation, tourists, tourism, etiquette, vehicle transportation, cars, automobile industry, minimizing environmental footprint, analyzing habits, change, www.whl.travel, engaging with local communities intimately, culture, cultural background, historical background, tours, off the beaten track, activities, slow travel, keeping perceptions open, networking, sustainable tourism, target destinations, street vendors, secret cafe, preserving businesses, Brazil, Southeast Asia, Cambodia, India, responsible behavior, accommodation, Philippines,Mary Travers Obituary (9:19)
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Peter, Paul & Mary, Mary Travers, Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey, and Mary Travers, Mary was discouraged from talking, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, folk music, 1960's, hippies, Bob Dylan, black panthers, revolution, Tom Wolfe, generational influence, biblical implications, The Bitter End, Greenwich Village, New York City, psychedelic revolution,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
