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First Aired - 08/09/2009 12:00PM

This week on The Main Course, Patrick and guest host Shanna Pacifico are joined by special guest, acclaimed author, and beef & corn expert Betty Fussell.

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Introduction & Show Summary (10:20)

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Shanna Pacifico, Patrick Martins, The Onion, mimosa, Back 40, organic restaurants, family meal, hot dogs, Alice Waters, tortillas, Julia Child, Meryl Streep, Oprah, Betty Fussell,

Betty Fussell & The History of Corn (4:38)

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L train, beef, Deborah Madison, corn, The Story Of Corn, food books without recipes, token recipes, Mabel Normand, American regional cooking, Midwest, corn farmers, factory farming, ranching, corn has been growing here for 10,000 years, civilization, Betty Fussell,

Is The Kitchen a Living Room? (4:48)

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Michael Pollan, I Hear America Cooking, Sunday Times Magazine, New York Times, cooking has become a speculative sport, New York City, kitchens as part of daily life, James Beard, is the kitchen a living room?, eating out, I Love Lucy, dinner parties, Princeton, do it yourself, beer, chocolate, hors d'erves,

Betty's Experiences With Julia Child & James Beard (7:19)

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Julia Child, Masters of American Cookery, Emma K Fisher, Craig Claiborne, Boston, Brooklyn, Julie & Julia, puff piece, romantic comedy, acting, films, movies, Hollywood, James Beard, Portland, culinary, Garrett Oliver, Paris, France, American culture,

Beef, Food Trends & The Industrial Machine (6:04)

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White Oak Pastures, Bushwick, food trends, local organic, green, we are in a period of immense change, food networks, industrial machine is getting bigger, JBSA, economic realities, we have not begun to catch up to global economics, processed food, Italy, Spain, grocery stores, frozen food, the model for the global economy is the industrial process, China, greenies, affluence, Brazil is the worlds largest exporter of beef, self sufficiency, global affluence, Chinese beef consumption, fat as the comeback kid, American obsessions with single ingredients, beef, meat, production, coffee, Alzheimer's,

Vegans and Puritanism (3:55)

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Betty is unsympathetic towards Vegans, food is fun, pleasure, sin and salvation, livestock, life feeds on life, death is a necessary part of life, slaughterhouses, humane and inhumane practices, not eating animals will not save the planet, crab oils, Back 40, human beings are animals, plants, lobsters, Nora Ephron, Puritanism,

The Politics of Geography & Water (3:15)

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Raising Steaks, America has extreme geographies, geographies conditions culture, the East imposed it's politics on the West, land use laws come from the East, regional government, Eastern philosophy, water issues, Jeffersonian grid, pasture land, water distribution needs to be rethought, the desertification of Las Vegas, lawns are an Eastern idea,

The Secret To Staying Healthy: Questions for Betty (7:42)

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Julia Child, the secret to health is to choose your grandparents very carefully, high metabolism, McDonalds, french fries, Betty has written 11 books after the age of 55, who controls the food world?, the rise of food publications and blogging, Norman Mailer, every person is his own marketer, black garlic, tapping into fame, everybody loves food, how to cook Coyote, hunting for food, longevity, writing, communication, depersonalization, deer, Montana, Roberta's, polenta,

Show Wrap Up (4:49)

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Back 40, East Village, Denny's, slow food, Betty Fussel,

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