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First Aired - 08/18/2009 06:30PM
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This week on Why We Cook, Erica continues her exploration into vegetables with Zukes, Cukes & Melons.
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The Death Of Erica's Tomato Plants & Cucumber Musings (10:30)
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Th'Idiot - Bedtime Acid, Tekserve, Erica Wides, tomato blight, Union Square Farmers Market, organic potting soil, planning for tomato crop, deer ate all of Erica's tomatoes, locavore, summer crops, vegetables, zukes, cukes & melons, summer squash, cucumbers, zucchini, cucumbers can also be cooked, kappa maki, cucumber sushi, Kawataro, history and folklore behind the word kappa, the Japanese think Yamakas look like kappas, waxed supermarket cucumber, seeds, industrial, used to pickles, seedless cucumbers cost more, lemon cucumbers, industrialized agriculture has narrowed selection down, heirloom tomato plants, Erica's tomato plants have been destroyed, Kirby cucumbers, there are hundreds of varieties of cucumbers,Cooking with Cucumbers: Riding the Wave of Julia Child Nostalgia (7:25)
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salads, dill, sour cream, buttermilk, salting cucumbers, yogurt, garlic & herbs, squeeze out the juice for use with cocktails, mix it with gin and lime, basil, radicchio, Culinary Institute, Julie & Julia, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, sweet breads, brain, mornay sauce, pickles, brine, celery, blanched carrots, green tomatoes, firm peaches, green beans, mushrooms, cucumber juice gelatin, riding the wave of Julia Child nostalgia, baked cucumbers in cream, sautéed,Attack of the Squash People (6:38)
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Marge Piercy - Attack of the Squash People, poem, zucchini the size of a short mans leg, leave zucchini raw, don't cook them, mandolin on thin slicer setting, shave zucchini length wise thin as possible, make a dressing out of white miso, garnish it with shredded nori, if you cook zucchini let it caramelize, roasting or grilling, cook out the water, let it caramelize, stuffed zucchini with shallots, garlic, breadcrumbs, white wine, olive oil, Provence, smaller zucchini are better, the bigger, the blander, harvesting zucchini is difficult, growing zucchini,Melon Preparations: The Taste Of Summer (3:06)
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melons, salt, feta, prosciutto, South America, Italy, melon is more than a dessert, watermelon with feta, olive oil and mint, culinary alchemy, the taste of summer, cracked black pepper, shave melon with mandolin, hot chili, grilled chicken, grilled fish, vino verde,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 07/02/2012 01:00PM
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On this week's episode of Let's Eat In, Cathy Erway is beating the summer heat with Nathalie Jordi of People's Pops. People's Pops is an ice pop stand with locations at the Brooklyn Flea, the Highline, and Chelsea Market that combines local fruit and cocktail-inspired flavors. People's Pops is taking back a symbol of of the industrialized food system and making something fresh, refreshing, and low in calories! Tune in to hear about some of People's Pops most popular flavors, and their new ice pop cookbook. Hear about how making pops stretches the longevity of fruit, and creates a value-added product that supports local farmers. Pick up the People's Pops cookbook, and make some of your own frozen treats! This program has been brought to you by Hearst Ranch.
"So we just figured if you pumped it [an ice pop] full of fruit instead of high fructose corn syrup and colorings and gums and stabilizers, it had to be good. We didn't even consider that it might not be...If you're using high-quality fruit, you just can't go wrong." -- Nathalie Jordi on Let's Eat In
"So we just figured if you pumped it [an ice pop] full of fruit instead of high fructose corn syrup and colorings and gums and stabilizers, it had to be good. We didn't even consider that it might not be...If you're using high-quality fruit, you just can't go wrong." -- Nathalie Jordi on Let's Eat In
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Local Fruit Ice Pops! (19:05)
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Ft. Greene, People's Pops, Brick and Mortar, The Highline, Park Slope, Chelsea Market, People's Pops: 55 Recipes for Ice Pops, Shave Ice, and Boozy Pops from Brooklyn's Coolest Pop Shop, Nathalie Jordi, peach, jalapeño, paletas, mango, herbs, local fruit, greenmarket, Brooklyn Flea, ice pops, popsicles, South Street Seaport, tasting room, neon, high fructose corn syrup, wholesale, Whole Foods, rhubarb, cane sugar, watermelon, mint, simple syrup, industrial food products, lavender, apricot lavender, raspberry basil, tarragon, figs, California, corn, corn and blackberries, Bloody Mary pop, blueberry and yellow peach, strawberry rhubarb,Melon Pops in the Late Summer (11:48)
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date meal, boiled crab, blue crabs, vinaigrette, Brooklyn, Pfizer building, mixed-use space, artisan food production, Brooklyn Soda Works, Steve's Ice Cream, Brooklyn Kombucha, distribution, no preservatives, freezer burn, moisture, value-added product, melons, freezing fruit, compost, frozen fruit, cantaloupe, honey dew, puree, water content, sorbet,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 12/18/2012 06:30PM
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The apocalypse is imminent! What- or should I say 'who'- are you going to eat? Erica Wides is back with another episode of Let's Get Real to teach you how to survive the end of times. Hear how the apocalypse will eliminate the irony from Brooklyn rooftop farming, and why it's better to eat a pigeon than a rat. Looking to make a reservation at the Foodiness Fall-Out Shelter? Hear what skills are necessary to learn in an post-apocalyptic New York City. New York has been hit with storms and blackouts, but are the city's residents really ready for Rapture? Find out this episode of Let's Get Real! This program has been sponsored by Cain Vineyard & Winery.
"Foodiness takes care of what you eat for you so you don't know how it came to be!" [15:20] -- Erica Wides on Let's Get Real
"Foodiness takes care of what you eat for you so you don't know how it came to be!" [15:20] -- Erica Wides on Let's Get Real
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Food Waste and the End of the World (21:06)
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culinary school, chefs, waste, knife skills, City Harvest, starvation, global economy, hoarder, storage space, freezers, apocalypse, Romney, Mayan Calendar, 12/12/12, 12/21/12, dyslexic, the rapture, Fire Island, solar power, Death Valley, butchering, fiber skills, irony, foodiness, Susan Lucci, Hurricane Sandy, power outage, urban, Jamba Juice, Chris Christie, blackout,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
