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First Aired - 04/23/2012 12:00PM
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On the inaugural episode of After the Jump, host Grace Bonney of Design*Sponge chats with one of her biggest inspirations, designer Todd Oldham. Todd has worked on everything from clothing lines to MTV shows to La-Z-Boy's. Hear how his global upbringing helped shape his design style and how each of his projects tap into a different creative space. How does Todd juggle all of his projects while maintaining a healthy home life? How is working for large corporations different than designing for yourself? Find out on After the Jump! This program was sponsored by Tri-State Merchant.
"If I'm not enjoying it while I'm doing it, it basically doesn't exist for me."
"[When working for large corporations] anybody resting on laurels of doing old fashioned ideas is just going to drown."
"It's sad to me that people have associated style with money."
--designer Todd Oldham on After the Jump
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First Aired - 03/06/2011 03:30PM
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Cotton is the sole focus of this week's particularly fun and educational episode of We Dig Plants. Tune in to hear the good, bad and ugly about the history of cotton production in the world. Learn more about how the cotton gin revolutionized the world and why this crop really IS the "fabric of our lives". This episode was sponsored by S. Wallace Edwards & Sons. Learn more about their country ham and Virginia Tradition at www.SurryFarms.com
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We Dig Plants Introduction: Cotton (18:16)
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We Dig Plants, Alice Marcus Krieg, Carmen DeVito, S. Wallace Edwards & Sons, economic botany, anthropology, how humans use plants, plants and society, balance between needs and resources, Cosmography, Cotton, the fabric of our lives, hard to separate cotton and slavery, slaves developed a comb to speed up the process of picking cotton, bottleneck between field and factory, Eli Whitney, cotton gin, Upland county, cotton production, the South's white gold, textile mills, international slave trade, Liverpool, converted to textiles in British Mills, trade goods, cotton textile trade, Americana, cotton found its way to Africa, cotton was traded for more slaves,Work, Beauty & Everything In-Between (17:33)
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Alice's grandfather was a sharecropper and grew cotton, Eastern Georgia topsoil, the cost of t-shirts is rising because of rain problems in India, cotton is a heavily sprayed crop, fair trade, sustainable crops, decorative cotton, cotton seed fibers, fields look like snow, shrubs can get from 6 to 20 meters high, cotton bowls, cotton fibers make 40% of the worlds textiles, Southeast Asia, earliest written record of cotton, fragments of textiles dating to 3000 B.C., ancient civilizations had been spinning and weaving cotton, history of cotton, Ghandi, boycott on British goods, spinning wheel as symbol of self sufficiency, powdered cotton seeds, medicinal uses, cotton cocktail,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 01/23/2011 02:00PM
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This week on Cutting the Curd, Anne Saxelby sits us down to teach us more about the fabric of all dairy: milk. Anne traces the roots of human production of milk from various mammals, starting with goats and sheep. Tune in and learn about everything from seasonal breeding to the properties of ruminants. What took us so long to start milking cows? Find out on Cutting the Curd! This episode was sponsored by Cabot Cooperative. For more information visit www.cabotcooperative.com
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Cutting the Curd Introduction: Milk! (15:55)
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Anne Saxelby, Cutting the Curd, milk, any mammals first source of food, cows need to have babies in order to give milk, Cato Farm, cows freshening, nobody knows quite when humans first started milking animals, guessed that it started in 10000 BC where modern day Iran is located, first animals we tried to milk were sheep and goats, most popular dairy animals, humans worked their way up to cows gingerly, huge and unruly beasts, trying to milk a pig would be very difficult, ruminant animals have longer legs and stand higher off the ground, easier to milk, ruminants have four stomachs, cud, goats and sheep can survive on anything, great foragers, converting plant material to milk, production of milk linked to climate, Harold McGee, On Food & Cooking, milk chart,Seasonal Breeding & The Mysteries of Milk (14:55)
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animals are very seasonal when it comes to breeding, birth of young is tied to seasonality, Anne Mendelson, milk as a living tissue, like blood, a part of the human body not a fluid that is separate, most babies get their first immunity directly from the mother, baby continues to drink milk until it can eat other foods, occurs at different times for different animals, milk has yet to be broken down by its parts and analyzed, benefits of breast milk, there is much we don't know about milk, milk is life, one of the only things people can agree on, Brahman creation myth, Kosher traditions,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
