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The Food Seen - Episode 16 - Cut Brooklyn
First Aired - 09/07/2010 03:00PM

This week on The Food Seen Joel Bukiewicz & Harry Rosenblum of Cut Brooklyn stop by the studio to discuss the art and science of making high performance knives. With over an 18-month wait per blade, Cut Bk Knives are in high demand, and listening to Joel describe the incredible attention to detail he puts into each exacting step of hand forging these beauties, it is not hard to see why. Tune in to hear Cut's plans for growth in the future, how they got into the biz in the first place, and the various hair raising steps involved in making pieces of metal really really (really) sharp. This episode was sponsored by White Oak Pastures.

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The Food Seen: Cut Brooklyn! (17:57)

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The Food Seen, Michael Harlan Turkell, White Oak Pastures, Joel Bukiewicz, Cut Brooklyn, Harry Rosenblum, Joel went to school for fiction writing, grew up in Georgia, Harry is from Brooklyn Kitchen, vintage knives, carbon chef knife, Joel makes a carbon steel knife, Joel did a lot of hunting and fishing before making knives, it became a creative outlet for him, there's a huge knife show in Georgia, steel comes from the mill, there are some very hi tech steels available these days, Carpenter Technology, Joel only uses American made steel, Sweedish steel, Japanese steel, recycled steel, most of it gets shipped overseas, car crushers, steel made of truck springs, knives are either stamped or forged,

Joel Bukiewicz & Harry Rosenblum (16:24)

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water jet cut, hand cuts, steel is a blanket term that refers to a metal that is mostly iron, they are all alloys, there are an infinite number of different steels you can make, all combinations act differently, Joel's knives cut through things very easily, the knife cuts are a cellular level, you then get more taste on more surface area, if you cut an apple with these knives it will take longer to brown since it was cut so smoothly, onions won't make you cry as easy, glass plastic laminate, Joel doesn't call his knives stamp knives, sculpting handles, Joel is always interested in making the best knife he can possibly make, you don't hold a kitchen knife by the handle, the handle is for balance, Joel is collaborating with Williams-Sonoma, they will be cut out elsewhere,

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We Dig Plants - Episode 32 - Unusual Veggies
First Aired - 08/29/2010 03:30PM

This week on We Dig Plants join Carmen and Alice as they speak to Scott Apell, horticultural taxonomist, about some of the stranger and more exotic vegetables available this summer. Learn about snow peas with extra serrated wings, why eggplants are never guys, and the best way to make gooseberry pie! This episode was sponsored by White Oak Pastures.

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Scott Apell: Off the Horticultural Beaten Path (15:54)

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White Oak Pastures, we've had our fill of common vegetables, uncommon vegetables, its hot in Vieques, Scott Appell, The Green Man, Scott is a horticultural taxonomist, Scott is an author as well, The Horticultural Society of New York, Scott is up to his elbows in gooseberries, Gooseberries are from Sri Lanka, Gooseberries do well in drought and purple with a few edible seeds in them, Gooseberry pie, Okinawa Spinach, a daisy cousin, puslane, purslane is high in iron and potassium, purslane with fresh tomatoes and red onion, Asian winged beans, a snow pea with four edges, the edges are serrated, they're a legume, everything is available from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, www.Heirloomseeds.com, is it easy to grow an Asian winged pea?, this is not a spring pea however, you need a trellis to grow it, how many days of growing until harvest?, just like a regular pea the young leaves and pea shoots make a great vegetable, Mexican Sour Gerkin, it looks like a watermelon, they are great in salads raw or as pickles, cook them like you would tomatoes or eggplants,

More Uncommon Vegetables (14:12)

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The Ramones - When I Eat Vegetables I Think of You, people need to try new vegetables, for a couple of bucks for a pack of seeds why not?, for years people didn't eat things in the nightshade family, now we've accepted members of the nightshade family, eggplants are part of a really toxic group, nightshades are gorgeous looking, multi-colored eggplants and tomatoes look great in a flower bed, Eggplant is from India, Naranjilla, means little orange, Naranjilla is from the Andes and looks like an eggplant on steroids, the fruit is like a small bright yellow cherry tomato with a green interior, you can make sorbets or juices out of them, its easily five feet tall, Cassabanana, the fruit is incredibly fragrant, the fruit has bright orange flesh and is very juicy and delicious, its a big plant and needs support as it can grow up to 50 feet tall, the fruit ripening in time may be an issue, fruit vs vegetable is really a culinary thing, botanically something with seeds is a fruit, you often hear on cooking shows how the male egg plant is more bitter than the female eggplant, that's a ridiculous statement like calling a pregnant woman male, if it has seeds its the swollen female ovary of a plant, Scott has the life!, could you grow the Naranilla in Colorado?,

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Burning Down The House - Episode 34 - Donna Sapolin and Jacob Alspector
First Aired - 08/25/2010 07:00PM

This week on Burning Down the House Curtis sits down with Donna Sapolin and Jacob Alspector to discuss the DIY movement. Is it bolstering ideas of classical beauty or destroying them? Is quality DIY available to everyone or a select few, and SHOULD it be available to everyone? How does it feel to D something Y, and is the inevitable sense of accomplishment part of the allure? Tune in to find out. This episode was sponsored by White Oak Pastures.

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Burning Down The House Intro- The DIY Revolution (17:00)

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Curtis B. Wayne, Heritage Radio Network, White Oak Pastures, grassfed beef, the only weekly talk show devoted to architecture, design, and the creative arts, DIY, Donna Sapolin, Dr. Jacob Alspector, DIY home improvement, DIY design, the advent of the big box stores, the information explosion, people are more empowered to weigh in on design decisions, civilians in showrooms, set-in-stone prices have eroded, access to research, decorati.com, the designing link, helping clients to understand the work involved, the burdens of working with a slightly educated client, architect as mediator, the DIY revolution, the increase in collaborate effort,

The Sense of Accomplishment (18:25)

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construction administration, Cashmere, carpenters are always Led Zeppelin fans, Dan Breindel, Nat Weiner, The DIY revolution, electronic media, design disciplines are like religions, interior designers and architects didn't exist for most of human history, Imhotep, the wisdom to collaborate but not supersede the expert, This Old House, great design tools for the consumer, the granddaddy of the HGTV explosion, aim a camera at everyday life and make it a majestic activity, Julia Childs, demystifying the home for the 20th century, pex piping, pex piping not permitted in New York City, driving interest and demand, promoting design awareness, introducing the architect on This Old House, Norm Abram, the fascination of how things come together, www.thisoldhouse.com, make yourself extremely knowledgeable in minutes, immersing yourself in the internet, tinkering with toilets, great video online of people sharing solutions, internet forums, glorifying getting your hands dirty, the sense of accomplishment, our always-contingent provisional lives,

It's All Eurythmic (17:09)

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DIY, the high religion of architecture, a more active role in the construction, the litigious atmosphere of the 1970s, doing it yourself, Curtis consults the internet, the relative merits of the different kinds of rigid and semi-rigid insulation, discussions on the boards, frequent criticism of the internet, there is no Wikitruth when it comes to technical stuff, democratization of design, the app universe, ratings services, citysearcher, Yelp, Roberta's, delicious pizza, repurposed shipping containers, Rudolf Steiner, get up and dance, it's all eurythmic, dancing is great for information retention, app use, large scale institutional projects, the digital camera revolution, Angie's List, Benjamin Moore color app, empowering the layman, health web sites, empowering those with natural talent, gaining control over your physical environment, The Sharples Brothers,

Miles and Miles of Empty Bookshelves (7:31)

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the do it yourself music scene, experts have expertise, why can't anyone do anything?, Guitar Hero, gets people out of their heads and into their hands, the pride of achievement, the deep psychological need to control your den, the iPad destroys the bookcase, eBooks are taking over, the gestalt of the printed page, tunnel vision, journalism at NYU, miles and miles of empty bookshelves, the Google Book project, Violette Le Duc, the digital revolution, White Oak Pastures,

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