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This week on Why We Cook Chef Smarty Pants laments America's obsession with soda, and fears for a close friend with a diet soda addiction. When a search for a soda with maximum flavor and minimum sweetness ends without a clear winner, she ponders the potential for creating her own soda replacement beverage. By taking stock of some of the most soda-worthy fruits from around the world (heavily favoring the citrusy, sour, tart fare), Chef Erica is able to recommend some potential concoctions that might satiate even the hardest soda devotee. This episode was sponsored by Whole Foods Market.
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Evil Soda on a Warm Fall Day (11:27)
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Erica Wides, Whole Foods Market, Chef Smarty Pants, Chef Smarty Pants hates soda, a warm fall day, the massive resources required to produce soda, the plastic and aluminum waste left behind by soda, soda's addictiveness, soda is a huge part of our national caloric intake, what happened the commodity market when India started selling Coke?, soda is not food nor is it thirst quenching, vintage 8oz coke bottles, diet soda, soda addiction, the chemical company that created Nutrasweet had their product pushed through normal testing through political maneuvering, there is more sugar in one can of soda than a Snickers bar, people drink soda instead of water because it has flavor, looking for a satisfying replacement for soda,Replacing Soda (9:55)
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Why We Cook is rebranding with a new name and fun surprises!, loyal listeners will stay happy, creating a healthy new beverage to give soda lovers, carbonation, sweetness, and acidity are what makes soda delicious, looking for drinks that are flavorful but not sweet, Fresca, Chef Smarty Pants has a secret soda drinking past, Tab guzzling, Saccharin, a terrible reaction to Nutrasweet, you can potentially overdose on sugar substitutes, Grapefruit flavored soda, Thai curries vs Indian curries, drinking grape soda while tasting food at a culinary school, colas go well with certain foods, Kaffir Limes, Lemongrass, Club soda tastes different from Seltzer due to the addition of salt, infusing aromatics into soda rather than booze, if any molecular gastronomists know how to create infused soda email the show!,Drink-Appropriate Citruses (8:24)
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all HRN shows are on iTunes, we're streaming 24/7!, The Fancy Food Show, there are a lot of new beverages introduced every year, is there a market for soda with flavor and zero sweetness?, the Kaffir Lime can be found all year round as its tropical, Thai grocery stores like AsiaMarket are your best bet to find Kaffir Limes, you can grow the Kaffir Lime leaves as a house plant but i won't bear fruit, the leaves are very perfumey and citrusy for cooking, eating salads to cool down, tamarind are sour and citrusy but aren't citruses, tamarind is scraped, strained pulp from pods, aguas frescas, the intruiging etymology of the word Tamarind, tamarind is in Worcestire sauce, Chef Smart Pants is returning to Vietnam in 2 weeks,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
