Eat Your Words
Re-run 1 - 1:30pm EST
First Aired - 09/29/2011 03:00PM
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This week on U Look Hungry things get spicy and sweet with Mike Kurtz the creator of >Mike's Hot Honey, a homemade honey that's infused with Brazilian chili peppers. The conversation moves from the chili of Brazil to the country's burgeoning hip hop scene. From working at a world music label to collaborating with Brazilian rappers, Mike and Helen go behind the music. Tune in to hear a track by from Sao Paulo rapper Emicida and learn about the diverse music coming out of Brazil. This episode is sponsored by Cain Vineyard & Winery.
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Honey How'd You Get So Hot (20:25)
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U Look Hungry, Helen Hollyman, Roberta's, Brazilian national parks, experimenting with chili peppers, Michael Kurtz, Mike's Hot Honey, condiments, spicy food, chili peppers, Brazil, pizza, chili pepper-infused honey, infusing honey, Paulie Gee's, imported chili peppers, Brazilian music, Brazilian hip hop, Emicida, musicology, major slave port, slave trade in brazil, A&R, mixtapes, K-Salaam, Coachella, v,Brazilian Hip Hop & El Movimiento Negro (16:56)
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hip hop, Beatnik e K-Salaam, Intel, Vice Magzine, Sao Paulo, collaboration, The Creatives Project, Moviemiento Negro, Black Consciousness, MIA, Brazilian Funk, don't need record labels, the internet, Twitter, community radio stations, samba duro, choreographed dancing, political songs, promoting music on the internet, ULookHungry.com,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 09/07/2010 07:00PM
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This week on Why We Cook Chef Erica explores the link between illegal honey and the high holidays. Follow the trail of nasty secret Chinese honey as anti-biotics (meant to stop the spread of fungicide, which may also be in the Chinese honey) makes its way into honey, which is then repackaged and sent to other countries to avoid detection, or simply thinned out with corn syrup to become honey-flavored syrup. Then learn about honey's connection to the Jewish High Holidays, and why Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, means stuffed fish, tongue, and honey for everyone! This episode was sponsored by The Barterhouse.
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Tainted Honey (10:00)
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The Atlantic Food Page, The Atlantic Monthly's Online Food Page, tainted food scandals from China, corrupt factory owners, honey scandal, massive fraud and corruption case involving fungicide tainted honey from China, China is the world's biggest producer of honey, in the 90s China had a problem with tainted honey so they used antibiotics, China can't export honey tainted with antibiotics, what China ships is sometimes just flavored corn syrup labeled honey and is fraudulent, dumping duties, repackaging fraudulent honey to other countries, Seattle Post Intelligencer, fraud corruption and deception, we just trust food being sold to us is safe, honey has always had a health halo, a lot of products that say they contain honey don't, only buy honey from someone you trust like your local beekeeper, ask your local bee guy how they deal with diseases!, there is no actual organic certification for honey even though a lot of honey claims to be organic, Andrew Cote, your bees don't produce very much your first year of bee keeping, robbing your own bees of their honey?,Honey and the High Holidays (9:52)
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Join the Why We Cook Facebook Page!, people are being held accountable for the tainted honey, the Jewish High Holidays are beginning, Rosh Hashanah, honey cake is traditional for Rosh Hashanah, Chef Erica is a non-believer and has no religiosity, many of the best food traditions stem from religious ritual, September is the beginning of the new year because that's when school starts, dark spices and deep caramelized flavor, more Jewish-y spices than Christmas-y, milky tea with the Russian Grandma, honey cake is a pretty easy cake to make, Epicurious has good honeycake recipes, don't skimp on honey! buy the good stuff!, a lot of the bulk market honey is probably not the real deal and has fillers etc, The Land of Milk and Honey, honey is the only Kosher food that comes from a non-Kosher animal, the honey is not a product of the bee's body nor is it an animal product, honey is parve which means its not meat or dairy, vegans say honey exploits bees, the bees store honey in the Upper Deep, bees make so much honey they become honeybound, dipping apples in honey, apples in honey comes from the Ashkenazi Jews, Oregon grows some of the best fruit in the country,Food With Symbolic Meanings and Chinese Everything (7:33)
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Bao Kombucha, Rosha Homa, Jews suddenly become observant when they can leave work early, foods with symbolic meanings, round challah like the cycle of the year, its typical of Rosh Hashanah to serve tongue or head meat to symbolize the head of the year, pomegranates are used in many Rosh Hashanah traditions, some people used to call pomegranates Chinese Apples, Nappa Cabbage was called Chinese Cabbage, Cilantro was called Chinese Parsley, pomegranates come from the Arab world and made their way into Europe through Grenada, pomegranate means Apple of Grenada, Sephardic Jews have better food traditions, symbolizing the year by eating stuffed foods, a year stuffed full of blessings, Gefilte fish, Costco Gefilte Fish, Happy New Year!,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/30/2011 06:30PM
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It's been quite a week here in New York and New England expounds Erica on this week's Why We Cook but her survivalist mentality gives us insight to the plethora of uses of honey as one of the ultimate survivalist sundry. From antibacterial to embalming agent to humectant, honey gets many of its benefits from the fact that it doesn't spoil-- edible honey has even been found in ancient Egyptian tombs. But beware! Tune in to learn how Chinese exporters have been selling fake honey and to make sure you're getting the real deal. This episode is sponsored by Fairway Market.
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Wild Weather (17:17)
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Why We Cook, Erica Wides, Fairway Market, Steve Jenkins, earthquake, Hurricane Irene, Upstate New York, picking eggplants, bees, bottle honey, honey is water soluble, Honey never spoils, honey in Egyptian tombs, hydroscopic, hydroscope, humectant, sticky cinnabon, antibacterial, candle, Katrina, meth, sulfuric acid, embalming, American Pickers,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
