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First Aired - 03/15/2011 06:30PM
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This week on Why We Cook, Erica Wides aka Chefsmartypants shares a story of her experience making "dirty money" being on a focus group for children's packaged food items. Thankfully she kept her morals intact and let "the man" know why he's wrong. Tune in to hear this hilarious story and to find out more about the other side of packaging as Erica explains how bamboo chutes and banana leaves can be used to serve food. This episode was sponsored by The Museum of Food & Drink
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Why We Cook: Bad Packaging (16:38)
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Why We Cook, The Chefsmartypants Radio Show, Erica Wides, Heritage Radio Network, MoFad, Museum of Food & Drink, www.MoFad.org, focus groups for big companies, dirty money, packaging snacks for kids, evil industrial foods in green packaging, removing corn syrup and calling it organic, health halo, pop chips, organic gummy bears, natural colorings, puffed banana logs, Kefir, illustrated bacteria, emotional connections to snack food, convenience over quality, junk food, processed food, exposing kids to chemicals, single serving packages,The Other Side of Packaging (16:03)
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tsunami in Japan, people in shelters, rice balls, Japanese rice balls, onigiri, portable, compact, nori, survival food, even in crisis the Japanese hand out familiar and high quality food, beurre blanc, white wine and butter sauce, over salmon, papillote, other types of packaging, banana leaves, sticky rice, banh tet, Borneo, river trip, dug out canoes, headhunters, bamboo cups, machete skills, lunch served on banana leaves, Streets International, Vietnam, training street kids and orphans to work in hospitals and the tourism industry, March 30th at the Astor Center, fundraiser, www.StreetsInternational.org,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 12/28/2009 12:00PM
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On this weeks episode of The Naturalist, Bernie Wides celebrates the 400 anniversary of the discovery of the Hudson River by telling the story of Henry Hudson and the Northwest Passage.
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The Naturalist Introduction: Henry Hudson (13:00)
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The Naturalist, Bernie Wides, Heritage Radio Network, Henry Hudson, in 1609 discovered the Hudson River, it used to be called River That Flows Both Ways, Erica Wides, Why We Cook, Henry Hudson was a 17th century man in search of a 15th century dream, he was employed by Holland, the microscope, the stock exchange, The Spice Route, the dream was for a direct route to China, The Renaissance, Vasca de Gama, the Indies, John Cabot, Christopher Columbus, Coasta Rica, the only idea that seemed possible was to go north instead of south, Hudson was a failed arctic explorer, The North Pole, Robert Perry, wooden ships, The Cakewalk Meteorite, John Smith, people thought North America was uninhabitable in the winter, Native Americans were able to take care of themselves, Northwest Passage, John Smith thought a river from Virginia could lead to China, Tekserve, Rembrant, Portugal, exploration, Canada, Verenzano, Guatamala, Mexico, Magellan, maps, explorers, Virginia, Massachusetts, spices,The Hudson River: The River That Flows Two Ways (9:32)
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this is the 400 year anniversary of Hudson discovery of the Hudson river, Pacific Ocean, rivers are not known to flow from one sea to another, Smiths theory was based on statements from northern tribes, The Mohawk Tributary, the currents of the Hudson are very multi directional, the tide moves towards Newburg, the tide reverses, The Dutch East India Trading Company, they hired Hudson to search for The Northwest Passage, the VOC, John Cabot, canoes, Troy, Newfoundland, Jamestown,Henry Ends Up In Hudsons Bay (10:36)
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he became the first European to enter Delaware, the left is the port side, the right is the starboard, Hudson found themselves in another world, Sandy Hook, New York Harbor, from all directions they saw rivers flow into the bay, Hudson identified three great rivers, The Hudson River, The Raritan Bay, The Rockaway Inlet, Staten Island, Harlem River, East River, plum trees, people in animal skins welcomed Hudsons crew, commerce instantly began, Europeans in red had hand tools and Native Americans offered hemp, beans and oysters, not the kind of hemp you smoke, they had no idea who they were trading with, The Verenzano Bridge, the winds shifted, they sailed back out of New York bay, Estavan Gomez, Esteben Gomez, he sailed up the Hudson river, the river was narrowing, it seemed that it wouldn't lead to China, he discovered that it was short and ended up in Albanay, what ever happened to Henry Hudson?, he sailed back down the Hudson and decided to go north along the coast of Canada, he went into Hudsons bay, he got stuck in the ice, they spent a winter frozen in the ice, Indians kept them alive by trading them food, when spring came he wanted to go west, his crew revolted and had a mutiny, they left Hudson and his son to die, The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell, Brooklyn, estuaries, fish, oysters, clams, mussels,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
