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First Aired - 11/08/2011 06:30PM
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This week on Let's Get Real Erica Wides takes you behind the wrapper on fake fruit and the fruit bar empire. Learn about some of the scams that foodiness may be pulling on you, dear consumer, from fake farm displays to the facade of 'healthy' fruit bars. Take a tour of the 6 Degrees of Foodiness from real apples to toaster pastries and tune in as Erica dispels the myth behind the modern panaceas of "superfruit fusions". This episode was sponsored by Heritage Foods USA.
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Real Fruit, Real Health (18:16)
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Let's Get Real, Erica Wide, good apples, apples, apple season, apple picking, Turkvember, farmer's market, Fig Newton, foodiness, Seinfeld, megastores, perishable, local apples, fake farm labels, fake farms, Portland, continental breakfast, snacking dilemma, real fruit, vitamins, fiber, phytonutrients, processed sugar, fruit, inconvenient food, carbon footprint, fruit roll up, Brooklyn, pesticide residue, Apple Jacks,6 Degrees of Foodiness: Apples (17:20)
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proto-foodiness, 6 degrees of foodiness, apple productgs, NutriGrain bars, toaster pastries, organic, Superfruit Fusion, superfruit, fusion, gogi berries, acai, synthetic vitamins, ingredients, cherry pomegranate, invert sugar, corn syrup, cherry puree concentrate, modified corn starch, sugar, whole grains, oatmeal, preserves, TBHQ, butane, chicken nuggets, yogurt filling, glycerin,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 10/03/2010 03:30PM
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This week on We Dig Plants Carmen hosts the monthly fruit episode on apples. Steven Hoying of Cornell University calls in to explain how apple growers have kept their trees disease and pest free, why apple trees are genetically promiscuous, and why those bright red apples from the cafeteria taste so absurd. Tune in for an episode on orchards, hard cider, and apple pie from The Big Apple. This episode was sponsored by Hearst Ranch: purveyors of fine grass-fed beef from the California coast.
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We Dig Plants Introduction - Fruit of the Month: Apples! (17:56)
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We Dig Plants, Heritage Radio Network, Carmen DeVito, Hearst Ranch, Jimmy Carbone, Pig Island, harvest season, fruit of the month!, today's fruit: the apple, Malus domestica, humans have tinkered with the apple to make it taste better, ornamental fruits, domestic apples are genetically diverse, one tree can produce a diveristy of seedlings, Steven Hoying, Cornell University Extension, apple growing in New York State, root stock, hard cider, growing apples to make cider, New York is second only to Washington state in apple production,Steven Hoying of Cornell University (18:39)
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the difference between apple orchards, Huson Valley vs western New York, 8th generation apple growers in upstate New York, by 1820, New York was exporting apples, apples are important to New Yorks economy, www.nyapplecountry.com, new planting systems with 1000 trees per acre, root stocks, training systems, apple picking, trees planted no longer than 3 feet apart, apple picking in the Hudson Valley, The Apples in New York, Honey crisp apples, relatively new variety, Empire, Sweet Tango, mealy Red Delicious apples, not easy to know when to harvest them, early market windows are more profitable, the gene gun to fight fire blight, many gardeners are afraid to raise fruit trees, advice for home growing apple trees sustainably, disease free apples,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/24/2010 06:30PM
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This week on Why We Cook its Back to School week! Join Chef Erica for a quiz on all things fruit. Learn how to find the best watermelons, the difference between ripening and maturing, and what the single most sold item at Wal-Mart is. Tune in for this extremely helpful fruit-picking-primer. This episode was sponsored by Whole Foods.
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Why We Cook Introduction: Quiz Time! (10:51)
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Why We Wook, Erica Wides, Heritage Radio Network, Whole Foods Market, LA Story, back to school season, Why We Cook quiz!, do peaches continue to ripen after they are picked?, how do you define ripeness?, Erica says yes they do continue to ripen, a peach farmer says no, they just get softer, California Tree Fruit Agreement, maturity happens on the tree and ripening happens off the tree, perceived sweetness changes as acid levels drop,Know Your Fruits (10:26)
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melons, which melon is the only type that continues to ripen off the vine?, cantaloupe and musk melon family, background color should be yellow not green, when melons are ripe they detach themselves from their vines, smell your fruit!, shopping by smell, fruit is a game of chance and randomness, taste before you commit, melons should feel heavy, what does wall mart sell more of than anything else?, bananas!,Closing Questions (8:02)
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back to school week, which classic American fragrant flower is the first cousin of many of our favorite fruits, the rose, roses produce a fruit, the rose hip, there were many rose bushes planted along the West Side Highway, vitamin C often comes from rose hips, pectin makes fruit thicken, it's watermelon season now, it should be heavy for its size, it should feel substantial, it should not sound hollow, you're looking for a resounding thud, it should have a yellowy whitish brown patch, the longer it ripened the bigger it would be, watermelon starts to taste better after a few days in the refrigerator, it seems to get sweeter, what's the most commonly eaten in the whole world, mangos!,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
