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First Aired - 01/30/2013 03:00PM
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Dominican-origin chocolate is the focus on this week's episode of Straight From the Source. Find out how Eric Reed went from livestock farming to becoming a chocolatier. His company, SPAGnVOLA, uses exquisite Dominican Republic estate-grown and processed cocoa which manufactured into chocolate in their Truffle Factory. Tune in and find out more about the ins and outs of cacao farming in the Dominican Republic and how Eric's company made its mark on the chocolate community. This program was sponsored by Heritage Meat Shop.
"Most people don't view soil as something that truly belongs to anybody." [07:00]
"Across all three of our premium bars has its own distinct characteristic. We don't tell customers what the flavor notes will be because everybody's palate is different." [19:45]
--Eric Reed of SPAGnVOLA on Straight From the Source
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From Livestock to Chocolate (18:38)
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Eric Reid, SPAGnVOLA, farming, cocoa farming, Dominican Republic, harvesting, co ops, organic chocolate, cocoa, bon bons, chocolate, exotic foods, cocoa beans, truffles,On-Air Chocolate Tasting (14:33)
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tasting notes, flavor profiles, aromas, genetics, cacao trees, passionfruit, salted caramel,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 12/01/2009 06:30PM
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On this week's Why We Cook, Erica casts a lens on exotic oil varieties, explaining their origins, their extraction methods, and how to best use them in your dishes.
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Behold the Winter Squash (9:15)
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unseasonably warm weather, hard shell squashes, kabocha, delicata, varieties, delicata easiest to cook no peeling, roast your squashes, high vitamin A content, vital part of winter cooking, Erica's old days as a line cook, butternut squash, pumpkin seed oil, pumpkins brought from Europe, pumpkin growing flourished in Austria, www.hayriver.net, orgnic American-grown pumpkin seed oil,Seed and Nut Oils (12:18)
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only recently has an American producer begun making pumpkin seed oil, color of pumpkin seed oil changes depending on how much of it you're looking at, dichroomatism, pumpkin oil expensive to produce, intensely nutty flavor and smell, health benefits of pumpkin seeds, loses its nutritional quality if heated, Argan Oil, Argan Oil eaten and sold in Morocco for thousands of years, Argan tree dissappearing, Argan seed oil very delicate and expensive, very high in vitamin E,High Heat Cooking Oils (10:59)
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high smoke points, good for cooking, olive oil suffers when you heat it, loses health benefits, if you're cooking something in high heat you want an oil with a high smoke point, commodity crops, grape seed oil, clean and neutral can be paired with other strong flavors, grape seed oil thin and light texture, grape seed oil great for making popcorn, grape seed oil great for damaged skin around the eyes, also good for shaving, also very good for itchy feet, avocado oils, pressed from the fruit of the avocado not the pit, smoke point of 500 degrees, macadamia nut oil,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 11/22/2011 03:00PM
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On today's THE FOOD SEEN, Aliya LeeKong brings her multi-national home (Indo-Pakistani, Tanzanian, Trinidad, Hong Kong) to the forefront through her video series, Exotic Table. Though she travels to far off lands like Turkey, Goa, and South Africa, she also finds flavor inspiration here Staten Island where a band of grandmothers run the kitchen at Enoteca Maria. Aliya is also the Culinary Creative Director at Junoon, a restaurant highlighting South Asian cuisine, where she blends spices as she does cultures. This episode was sponsored by Fairway Market.
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