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First Aired - 04/04/2012 04:00PM
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This week on The Speakeasy, Damon Boelte catches up with Matt Carr and Tom O'Neil of Betto with Johnny Gaffney of Kanon Vodka. Tune in as they celebrate the arrival of spring with a lively discussion on amaros, grappas and delicious refreshing cocktails that can be made with either. Learn how having a bar in a restaurant is convenient when it comes to ingredients and why there's nothing wrong with a bull shot here and there. Also find out more about Kanon Vodka and their single distilled process. This program was sponsored by Hearst Ranch.
"A little beef stock in a breakfast drink is always good."
--bartedner Matt Carr on The Speakeasy
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Betto NYC (16:41)
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spring cocktails, Matt Carr, Betto, Tom O'Neil, meat stock, bull shots, home made syrups, Jason Denton, Amaro, Grappa, Pimms #3, Winter Pimms, Pimms cup, cocktails, mixology, bartending, Bison Grass vodka, apricot bitters, customer service,Kanon Vodka (13:26)
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Hearst Ranch, Johnny Gaffney, Kanon Vodka, once distilled, wheat, rye, vodka stigmas, tasting notes, small batch liquor, brunch drinks, egg whites,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/17/2010 06:30PM
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This week on Why We Cook Erica goes on a quest for local peaches that do not suck, and ponders the morality and practicality of returning fruit from the store whence it came. This week is also a look at figs, and the figs' delicious step-sister, apricots. Tune in to get a firm grasp on the last few weeks of summer and the juicy ripe fruit therein. This episode was sponsored by Edwards of Surry Virginia.
Photo 1: "showing the fig", Photo 2: a good(?) apricot
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Why We Cook Introduction: Sucky Local Peaches (10:54)
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Why We Cook, Erica Wides, Heritage Radio Network, Edwards Ham, picking out the best fruit, fruit has such a huge risk attached to it!, who takes fruit back?, Kramer on Seinfeld, we should all start returning our fruit, fruit revolution, nectarines, A&P, local peaches, local doesn't always mean good, we need a fruit money back guarantee!, the last half of August is full of good fruit, Erica will be a guest on NPR's All Things Considered on August 26th, Last Chance Foods,The Eternal Quest For Apricot Nirvana (9:43)
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apricot nirvana, the apricot is often sucky, Santa Monica Farmers Market, fruit nirvana, don't believe the free samples they give you, seasonality, where are the exceptional apricots?, share your ideas with Erica, leave comments or find her on facebook, the iconic fig, ancient fruit of the Greeks and Romans, first clothing source for humans, Erica recently had a transformative fig experience,All About Figs (10:38)
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ham & figs, deep dark crimson interior of a fig, wine-like flavor, Italian fig tree traditions, Erica has always had fig tree envy of old Italian guys, figs are for adventurous fruit eaters, Wall Mart sells more bananas than any other item in the store, figs are not purely vegetarian fruits, they are slightly carnivorous, smyrna fig, mission fig, figs aren't really a true fruit, fig wasps, pollination cycle of the fig, figs have been seen as a metaphor for femininity, showing the fig, offensive gesture,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 10/11/2010 01:00PM
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This week, Cathy sits down with Wen-jay Ying, the CSA coordinator for the iconic Red Jacket Orchards. Fun and laughter ensue as they talk about macoun apples, cooking with quinces, and the Healthy Fresh Bodegas Initiative. This episode was brought to you by Edwards of Surry, Virginia.
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Let's Eat In Introduction - It's A Magical Process (15:03)
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early fall, CSA coordinator at Red Jacket Orchards, one of the largest selections of fruit at local food events, the first stand-alone fruit share CSA, community supported agriculture, connect to your fruit farmer, visiting the farm, camping in the apricot orchards, a magical visit from an albino deer, mystical animals of the North East, macoun apples, crisp and tart, severe fruit allergies, chemical pesticides on supermarket apples, Unicorns, discovering and cultivating heirloom varieties, broadening the plum spectrum, elephant hearts, 26 varieties of plums, plums in every color of the rainbow, Katie's quince cookies, kumquat, donut peaches, Wen-jay Ying, Cathy Erway,Crossing The Food Desert (15:20)
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Wen-jay Ying from Red Jacket Orchards, you have to cook quinces, tough and fibrous, cut and salted quinces in Taiwan, slices of quinces on sugar cookies, so many possibilities for quinces, a huge fan of the donut peaches, so many vibrant plums, apples and pears for fall, The Healthy Fresh Bodegas Initiative, GrowNYC, Department of Health, distributing organic to bodegas in Bed-Stuy, bringing fresh food into food deserts, fund raising for refrigerators, produce education for bodega owners, no-sugar added juices, fake juice, inconvenient food, competing with a bag of chips, October 28th fundraiser at Brooklyn Kitchen, Hungry Filmmakers, everybody loves apples, apple crunch, apples wash your teeth, dangers of popcorn, dentists' worst nightmare, Wen-jay's super awesome date meal, duck, The Feast Conference, Good.com, Peking duck, duck taco, ducko, ducks are the easiest things to cook, date night,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
