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First Aired - 01/24/2010 12:00PM

Lisa Tucker talks about The Field and Fork Network and Marsha McBride joins the show to talk about the farm to table movement.

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The Main Course Introduction (14:36)

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Patrick Martins, Katy Keiffer, The Main Course, Whole Foods Market, upper west side, Buffalo, Niagra Falls, wonders of the world, beef recall, e coli, www.foodsafety.gov, food safety, sustainability,

The Field And Fork Network (16:31)

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The Field and Fork Network, Lisa Tucker, Edible Buffalo, Kansas City, upstate New York, wineries, dairy, XO, Marriot Food Service, institutionalized dining, hotels, Kathleen Harris, Canadian Chefs Conference, Scott Stringer, Manhattan Borough President, institutional procurement, Barack Obama, Wall Street, Heritage Foods USA, distributors, meat supply, 3-5% is lost, house cured meat, whole animal cooking, Meat Hook, heritage turkeys, Paradise Locker Meat, Jefferson David Highway, Leaping Waters Farm, Chris Parachini,

Lisa Tucker of Edible Buffalo (29:25)

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Lisa Tucker, Edible Buffalo, Patrick will be a keynote speaker, The Field And Fork Network, there is no local food distributor in western New York that works with small farmers, livestock farms, local food distributor, garlic varieties, restaurant needs, niche farming, raw milk cheese producers, kiwi, world class fruits, cherry, pear, peaches, grapes, short growing season, Halal, New York Times, slaughterhouses, politics, www.meatingplace.com, Bion, bio fuels as a byproduct, Martha Stewart, Rachel Ray, NYU, food distributors, army general, Sysco Corporation, product quality, livestock farmers, sustainability, local products, cheap food argument, infrastructure, www.fieldandforknetwork.com,

Marsha McBride of Cage Rouge (39:36)

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Marsha McBride, Cafe Rouge, Berkley California, farm to table movement, food awareness, sustainability, local agriculture, whole carcasses, meat wasn't always this popular, vegetarianism trends, Paul Willis, chicken, lamb, goat, Bill Neiman, whole animal movement, veal, meadow raised veal, milk fed, grass fed, olive oil, California olive oil, networking and distribution issues, dairy business, air chilled poultry, eggs, duck eggs, fat, duck con fit, meatballs, meatloaf, meat market, steaks, chops,

Tom Mylan Recaps Meatball Madneses (26:08)

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Tom Mylan, Meat Hook, workshops, Flying Pig Farms, Meatball Madness, Roberta's, Frankies Sputino, Tea Room, guanciale, www.the-meathook.com, butchering classes, beer brewing, Cathy Erway, recession cooking, Kombucha classes, Cooking With Bad Ideas, DIY, Do It Yourself, Michael Pollan, disposable income, New York City, San Francisco, slaughter houses, boxed beef, processing, Oprah, Texas Beef Association,

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First Aired - 11/15/2009 01:15PM

On Part Q of The Main Course, Katy is joined by independent book maverick Henry Zook of Brooklyn Book Court & Drew Becher of NYRP.

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The Main Course Part Q Introduction: Vertical Farming & The NYRP (30:19)

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Hearst Ranch, Drew Becher, Executive Director for the New York Restoration Project, founded in 1995 Bette Midler, started with volunteers cleaning up New York City, helped clean up the canyons in LA, Fort Washington, High Bridge Park, community gardens, saved 120 properties, urban farms, parks, in 2006 A Million Trees NYC was launched, NYC 2030 plan, parks department, honey locust, Harlem River master plan, NYRP, Swindler Cove Park, Bloomberg, children's garden, The Manhattan Project, http://www.NYRP.org, green collar jobs, Obama administration, internships, summer programs, one on one help and assistance, job training, urban gardening, The New Leaf restaurant, Roberta's, an acre can feed 50,000 people a year, this can be an amazing model for other cities, farming is one of the biggest polluters in the country, tomato blight, cooking classes, Alice Waters, http://www.nypr.org, recreational opportunities, vertical farming, seasonality has become frivolous,

Book Promotion With Rosemary Morse (8:14)

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Roberta's, Rosemary Morse, book promotion, book publicity, without a platform you have no shot at promoting a book, niche marketing, author credentials, media coaches, staying on message during interviews, Patrick Martins, what does it take for a young writer to get a book published?, acquire an agent, write a proposal, most books are sold at the proposal stage with a sample chapter, the inkwell agency, science fiction novels,

Henry Zook Of Brooklyn Book Court (26:09)

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Henry Zook, Brooklyn Book Court, http://www.ibnyc.org/, catty teenage girls, Barnes & Noble, consignment, self published authors, Brooklyn, community authors, book tours, local radio, local television, www.bookcourt.org, Brownstone's, Zack Zook, best seller lists, Shelf Awareness, Costco, Sam's Club, big box deals, 40% of all books in the country go to wholesale clubs, eBooks, Amazon, Publisher's Weekly, Greenlight, screening process for authors, sales, internet promotion, facebook, twitter, free marketing tools for authors and bookstores, the author has to do more legwork themselves, self promotion, New York Times book review, Oprah, there are few outlets for book promotion, Independent Book Sellers of New York City, independent authors are approachable, corporate chains, independent book sellers are like a book review,

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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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