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First Aired - 05/16/2010 05:00PM
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This week on The Mr. Cutlets Show Josh sat down with James Tracey & Akhtar Nawab. The guys spoke about whether cooking with super delicious olive oil is a must or a mistake, and just where it was that Josh had meat so aged it was "rotting off the bone".
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The Mr. Cutlets Show Introduction: James Tracey & Akhtar Nawab (20:57)
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The Mr. Cutlets Show, Josh Ozersky, Heritage Radio Network, Fairway Market, Josh is very hungover, Roberta's, Craft Bar Restaurant, Akhtar Nawab, Tom Colicchio, Mexican cuisine, taquitos, toastatas, sweetbread tacos, lobster arepas, Richard Sandoval, 11 new restaurants planned, Gramercy Tavern, green market gastronomy, minimalism, resourcing and getting the best products, grass fed meat, lacks sweetness, Angus Piedmontese, it's great when it's 60 days aged, lots of marbling, very tender, dry aged flavor, a dry clean aging room compresses the meat, no musky funk, Colicchio And Sons, plated vs family style, Tipsy Parson, Josh has limited knowledge on Mexican food, Josh has never had a soft taco that totally obscured everything inside of it, Josh went to a dinner at the James Beard House, Daniel Humm, tweezer food, Michael Anthony, James Tracey,Olive Oil, Meats & Vegetables (15:30)
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Fairway Market, Red Hook, single origin olive oil, meat program, do chefs like grassy olive oils or fruitier ones?, some people say not to cook with good olive oil, is that true?, yes, finish your dish with the good olive oil, James is from Texas, Bev Eggleston shoulder pork chop, Tipsy Parson, Fudge Farms, pork, Julie Taras Wallach, Fatty Cue, Meatopia, open to the public this year, Andrew Carmellini, Jimmy Carbone, July is good beer month, www.meatopia.org, July 11th at Governors Island, benefits Slow Food USA and Just Food, www.ozersky.tv, Josh now drives an Audi, Today's Special,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/15/2010 12:00PM
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This week on The Main Course Patrick and Mike sit down with Back Forty's Shanna Pacifico, Erin Fairbanks of Flying Pig Farm, Jeff Mosher of Robert Mondavi Wineries, plus a special guest from Anthology Film Archive. The gang discuss their least favorite aspects of living in NY, the fallibility of Yelpers, and why you can't have a wedding at a winery in Napa. This episode was sponsored by White Oak Pastures.
Photo: Mike Edison, Erin Fairbanks, Shanna Pacifico & Patrick Martins in studio
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The Main Course Introduction (18:19)
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The Main Course, Patrick Martins, Mike Edison, Erin Fairbanks, Shanna Pacifico, White Oak Pastures, www.whiteoakpastures.com, Zingermans', The Cult of Zingermans, Mostly Mozart, Public Enemy in Central Park, High Brow Low Brow, Savoy, Clown Interrupted, What Drives NYers up the Wall?, Dawdling Tourists, What Annoys Restaurateurs?, Seana hates Yelpers, Yelp Throwdown, if you have a problem with something at the restaurant tell the restaurant not Yelp, walking out soured, most waiters will try to fix things with a smile, no one listens to yelp, Yelp is as important as man on the street interviews, google image search, false food allergies, customer pet peeves, wobbly tables, some people aren't good at the restaurant experience, New York has a culture where the customer is not always right, Cherryholmes, Ma Peche could use a phone number, internet reservations,New Yorker Pet Peeves & The Culture of Pricing at Restaurants (20:24)
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double decker busses, Roberta's, Brooklyn Grange Farmers Market, cabbies on cell phones, smelly cab drivers, 6.2% of New Yorkers don't like hipsters, 4.1% of New Yorkers hate street fairs, arepas, 2.6% of New Yorkers don't like tip jars, Mike Edison hates silverware at Japanese restaurants, there aren't many women selling Heritage pork, would women be treated different if they were selling meat?, the dudes carrying the pork probably didn't get as much help as the girls, there's a lot of leadership from men in the industry, women are very supported by a lot of top food people, its still mostly male chefs, kitchens are dominated by men still, female TV chefs, Rachel Ray is really dumbing it down, Food Network has digressed, Party Down, behind the scenes catering, $11 hamburger at Back Forty, grass fed, paying a premium for quality product, Momofuku noodle bar, going to the movies is easily $20 a person, there should be a sliding scale for admission at the movies, IMAX, good meals are not expensive, NYC is filled with many terrible restaurants, sustainable food, economy of scale, top 10 dishes in America, mac n cheese, fried chicken, BBQ, pizza,Robert Mondavi Winery Chef Jeff Mosher (21:17)
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cows are the largest edible livestock, it's hard to move them, Josh Mosher, Napa Valley, Robert Mondavi Winery, trade related, vehicle for selling wine, Robert Mondavi is credited with founding the Napa Valley as a well known wine region, what are the food ethics of the winery?, food museums, what happened with Copia?, the timing wasn't right, the ultimate demise had a lot to do with the financial crash, does a name brand help or hurt wines, Margrit Mondavi, she loves wild strawberries, is Robert still making table wine?, Woodbridge, Private Selection, two wines that are owned by the same company but they are made at a different facility, East Coast vs West Coast, is it more preferably to be a hippie than a hipster?, Northern California movement has always been trying to shed the hippie mantra, Ubuntu, Daniel Patterson, New York hippies are hard working hippies, Robert Mondavi winery was good to Slow Food in its early days, sonoma county does weddings, Mondavi does not,Melinda Shopsin & Andy Lambert Join the Studio (21:14)
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Melinda Shopsin, Andy Lambert, archivist of the Anthology Film Archives, Andy is in charge of the collections, Shaved Elbows, Robert Downey Sr., there are only 3 prints of the film left, silent film collections, Mars Bar will never die!, Anthology Film Archives is a neighborhood institution, Charles Ludlam, Stony Awards, Dan Hedaya, Jason Mewes, Melinda is producing a documentary about the drug war, War on Drugs, it's a health problem not a crime problem, doctors should make drug policies, marijuana laws are softening, legalizing marijuana, prohibition doesn't work, prescription drugs, crack cocaine, 18 to 1 bill, The Addams Family, The Munsters, The Brady Bunch, where are the great monster sitcoms of today?,Show Wrap Up (8:29)
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civil inattention, you should never eat a bad slice of pizza in New York, there should be a tourist lane for slow moving people, we need smarter streets, people in New York don't look at street signs, Katy Keiffer is on vacation,Heritage Cooking with Steve Pope (13:20)
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the begining of fall, Germany, German cookings, Heritage Birds, simple food prepared with a German background, making do with what you have, everything was a rationed commodity during WWII, one of the main staples was chicken because it was easy to grow, chicken is fairly low maintainance, early to mid 40s, the advent of commercialized chickens had not happened in the 40s, old breed indigenous to that part of the country, using a hadnful of this and a pinch of that, the mixture has to feel right, the correct texture, individualism, baked chicken, dumplings are to Germans what spaghetti is to Italians, all Heritage birds you cook low and slow, rediscover old recipes!,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
