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First Aired - 12/19/2010 03:30PM
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With holiday cheer comes holiday spice, and Carmen DeVito & Alice Marcus Krieg are here to help you learn more about two essential spices in American culture; Cinnamon & cloves. The girls are joined by historical gastronomic Sarah Lohman of Four Pounds Flour who gives food related context to the interesting and often misunderstood story of these two precious spices. Tune in and learn how Cinnamon once masked the flavor of bad meat and why cloves are so directly related to alcohol. This episode was sponsored by Hearst Ranch; the nations largest single source supplier of grassfed and grass finished beef. For more information visit www.hearstranch.com.
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We Dig Plants Introduction: Spices (22:20)
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Carmen DeVito, Alice Marcus Krieg, We Dig Plants, Heritage Radio Network, Sarah Lohman, gastromic historian, recipes from yesteryear, www.fourpoundsflour.com, spices, Cinnamon, cloves, how did these spices get into commerce?, spice trade, 35,000x markups, commodity for the rich, used for preservation of meat, camouflage the taste of spoiled meat, used a perfume in ancient times, it's identity changed by the time the Europeans got it, candles, Magellan, we have always loved exotic food, snickerdoodle,Cinnamon and Cloves with Sarah Lohman (15:53)
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cloves, similar story to cinnamon, from Indonesia and Malaysia, also present in China, citizens had to chew cloves before meeting with the emperor, growing cloves, ultra tropical small tree, won't survive temperatures below 50 degrees, needs lots of water year round, clove gum, produced to mask the smell of alcohol on breath, Florida Water, cookie recipe from 1914, find the recipes at www.fourpoundsflour.com, cloves with tongue,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/02/2009 01:00PM
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This week on the Q Report, Patrick and Mark are joined by Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker Mark Mori, who tells us about his new film called Bettie Page Reveals All.
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Introduction & Show Summary (8:17)
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Tim Russert, Meet The Press, Dick Cheney, Walter Cronkite, Johnny Carson, Mark Mori, Betty Page, Betty Page Reveals All, Producers Guild, iconiclast, poetry, Mark Marabella, Patrick Martins,Bettie Page Reveals All: Mark Mori Discusses His Documentary (21:32)
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Building Bombs, H Bomb, film making advice, shooting on film, editing, S&M, pinup model, bondage, lawyers, Bettie Page is still very popular, sexual attraction, the naughty girl next door, still camera model, Bettie Page moved to New York in 1949, she was discovered at Coney Island by a Brooklyn policeman, Flirt, Wink, Beauty Parade, bikinis, Bunny Yeager, Playboy, Bettie Page is from Nashville, barbie, Kim Cattrall, Madonna, Bettie Page is the most photographed model of the 20th century, Jack Johnson, religion, Dave Stephens, Mark Mori is an Academy Award Nominated Documentarian,More On Bettie Page With Mark Mori (9:46)
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Chris Parachini, Bettie Page is more recognizable by face than name, Quentin Tarrantino, Bettie Page was rediscovered on the internet, The film comes out in 2010, bottom up grassroots campaign, burlesque dancers, viral marketing, supermodels, Farrah Fawcett, www.bettiepagemovie.com, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, J.D. Salinger, Hugh Hefner, Bettie Page didn't have children, HBO, sexual revolution, contraception, women's rights, Pulp Fiction, Uma Thurman, breaking barriers,New York Waterways With Chris Parachini (22:25)
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Dead Horse Bay, Atlantic Ocean, boat, boating, sailing, sailboat, sloop, shallow water ways, pirates, Caribbean, keel, Hudson River, Hell Gate Bridge, North Fork of Long Island, East River current is very strong, White House, sailing initiatives, navigation skills, this is the best time to buy boats in the past 20 years, boat repairs, physics of nature, San Francisco Bay, North Korea, transportation, Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs & Steel, Leif Ericson, Long Island Sound, Ferdinand Magellan, Vasco De Gama, Chelsea Piers, World Yacht, tour boats, sewage, fish, JFK, oyster fisherman, wildlife refuge, bird sanctuary, East Coast, shoreline, Bermuda rigged sailboat, natural environments,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 12/28/2009 12:00PM
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On this weeks episode of The Naturalist, Bernie Wides celebrates the 400 anniversary of the discovery of the Hudson River by telling the story of Henry Hudson and the Northwest Passage.
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The Naturalist Introduction: Henry Hudson (13:00)
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The Naturalist, Bernie Wides, Heritage Radio Network, Henry Hudson, in 1609 discovered the Hudson River, it used to be called River That Flows Both Ways, Erica Wides, Why We Cook, Henry Hudson was a 17th century man in search of a 15th century dream, he was employed by Holland, the microscope, the stock exchange, The Spice Route, the dream was for a direct route to China, The Renaissance, Vasca de Gama, the Indies, John Cabot, Christopher Columbus, Coasta Rica, the only idea that seemed possible was to go north instead of south, Hudson was a failed arctic explorer, The North Pole, Robert Perry, wooden ships, The Cakewalk Meteorite, John Smith, people thought North America was uninhabitable in the winter, Native Americans were able to take care of themselves, Northwest Passage, John Smith thought a river from Virginia could lead to China, Tekserve, Rembrant, Portugal, exploration, Canada, Verenzano, Guatamala, Mexico, Magellan, maps, explorers, Virginia, Massachusetts, spices,The Hudson River: The River That Flows Two Ways (9:32)
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this is the 400 year anniversary of Hudson discovery of the Hudson river, Pacific Ocean, rivers are not known to flow from one sea to another, Smiths theory was based on statements from northern tribes, The Mohawk Tributary, the currents of the Hudson are very multi directional, the tide moves towards Newburg, the tide reverses, The Dutch East India Trading Company, they hired Hudson to search for The Northwest Passage, the VOC, John Cabot, canoes, Troy, Newfoundland, Jamestown,Henry Ends Up In Hudsons Bay (10:36)
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he became the first European to enter Delaware, the left is the port side, the right is the starboard, Hudson found themselves in another world, Sandy Hook, New York Harbor, from all directions they saw rivers flow into the bay, Hudson identified three great rivers, The Hudson River, The Raritan Bay, The Rockaway Inlet, Staten Island, Harlem River, East River, plum trees, people in animal skins welcomed Hudsons crew, commerce instantly began, Europeans in red had hand tools and Native Americans offered hemp, beans and oysters, not the kind of hemp you smoke, they had no idea who they were trading with, The Verenzano Bridge, the winds shifted, they sailed back out of New York bay, Estavan Gomez, Esteben Gomez, he sailed up the Hudson river, the river was narrowing, it seemed that it wouldn't lead to China, he discovered that it was short and ended up in Albanay, what ever happened to Henry Hudson?, he sailed back down the Hudson and decided to go north along the coast of Canada, he went into Hudsons bay, he got stuck in the ice, they spent a winter frozen in the ice, Indians kept them alive by trading them food, when spring came he wanted to go west, his crew revolted and had a mutiny, they left Hudson and his son to die, The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell, Brooklyn, estuaries, fish, oysters, clams, mussels,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
