Eat Your Words
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First Aired - 06/20/2010 12:00PM
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This week on The Main Course Patrick and Katy spoke to Seth Unger about the NYC Food Film Festival. Dave Arnold also came by to talk about the future of gastronomy, new ingredients, and the power combining the high-tech with technique.
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The Main Course Introduction (8:30)
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The Main Course, Patrick Martins, Katy Keiffer, Heritage Radio Network, Barterhouse, World Cup, everybody's second favorite team is Brazil, NYC Food Film Festival, the 11th caller gets 30 pounds of free fresh country ribs!,NYC Food Film Festival Preview (31:42)
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Cherryholmes, Seth Unger, NYC Food Film Festival, in it's 4th year, cinematic scratch and sniff, Sundance with snacks, Beef tendon ball, Jun 23rd at the Water Taxi beach at South Street Seaport, Great NYC Shuck and Suck, oysters, East coast oysters, how do you deal with crowd control at all you can eat events?, a caller wins the ribs!, Street Food Festival, all you can eat mushroom night, Southeast Asian cuisine, Astor Center, 24th, fresh fried squid chips, Squid Chips, Jonathan Meyer, the guests can watch the food being made, next caller can get a free boston butt pack, 15 pounds of boneless pork shoulder, who's who of the downtown scene will be at the event, most french fries in the city are horrible, Penny Arcade, Friday is the Queens event, Water Taxi Beach in Long Island City, Pig Ear Sandwich, Fatty Cue, Lockhart, Texas, Robbie Richter, modernizing BBQ to include sustainably raised animals, Food Truck Drive in Movie, Brooklyn Flea has the worst ad campaign, Bread Maverick, Sunday is the last day of the festival, Grits Takedown, Matt Timms, Burger & Beer Garden, longest topping bar ever!, donated by Whole Foods Market, Sam from Dogfish Head will be there, independent brews, three different kinds of beef, three different meats, sliders, Hamburger America, George Motz,More on the Film Food Festival (19:03)
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a live caller wins tickets to the NYC Food Film Festival, how do you put the event together?, Dave Arnold, French Culinary Institute, cooking and kitchen volunteers from FCI, Food Truck Drive-In, lemon tart, Max and Mina's, 4,000 flavors of ice cream, beer ice cream, corn on the cob ice cream, Miami Beach FL, pouring beer from an 18-wheeler, Beach Boys, being calm under pressure, never a hair out of place, Hamburger America, George Motz, enjoying food without politics, its not about the best burger its about the stories behind them, what happens in your brain when you see delicious food, The Great is the Enemy of the Good, so often at events they serve commodity food, this is the first year Seth was involved from the beginning,Natalia's Sicilian Olive Oil (6:57)
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Sicilian Olive Oil, Natalia, Fancy Food Show, she used to live in London, development of olive oil market, what are the characteristics of Sicilian olive oil?, they are grassy, from medium to intense,Heritage Cooking with Steve Pope: Spices (6:25)
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Steve Pope, Heritage Cooking, adding spices to your poultry,Dave Arnold Talks Meat Glue & Molecular Gastronomy (16:21)
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Dave Arnold, French Culinary Institute, FCI, ICC, International Culinary Center, Dave does new technologies ingredients and techniques for chefs, meat glue, helps you make delicious stuff, Wiley Dufresne, focusing on deliciousness and consistency, meat glue allows you to make consistent portions, tools are only tools, Dave won't cook with anything that is bad for your health, Japanese fish sauce, molecular gastronomy, Herve This, Harold McGee, Americans get latched on to terms like local and organic instead of focusing on the larger picture, Sam Edwards, Surryano, American Country Ham,More with Dave Arnold (22:23)
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cocktail technology, distillation, rotary evaporator, you can't distill in New York, in England it is legal to do redistillation, there are no rules in New Zealand, Harold McGee, New York Times journalist, bars are conservative in the states, our cocktail palaces here are pretty mellow, people want to let loose!, college experiences, is there a party culture at FCI, Rachel Miley-Carpenter, some people go to culinary school because they want to write, some people are wealthy and want a good hobby, some people want to push boundaries, Del Posto, they use all different types of technologies,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 07/13/2010 05:00PM
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This week on Beer Sessions Radio Jimmy and Ray spoke to Caitlin Robin from Against the Grain wine bar, Dave Broderick from Blind Tiger, plus Jeff Gorlechen & Craig Frymark of Sixpoint Brewery. The gang recounted about the recent Meatopia event and Mayor Bloomberg's recent proclamation of July as "Good Beer Month". Craig from Sixpoint talked about their new beer, a collaboration with Jimmy and Ray called Sixpoint Signal: a delicious summer pale ale featuring subtle smoked, toasted notes and a sharp, citrusy, hoppy flavor. Tune in for a discussion on beer collaboration, plus an extra-helpful super-secret tip for all home brewers on how to best aerate your pitched liquid yeast using olive oil! This episode was sponsored by Great Brewers.com: a favorite source for beer information and education and one of the internet's most popular beer destinations.
Jimmy & Co celebrating Mayor Bloomberg's Good Beer Month declaration!
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Beer Sessions Introduction: Good Beer Month! (15:54)
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Beer Sessions, Jimmy Carbone, Jimmy's No 43, Heritage Radio Network, Ray Deter, d.b.a., Dave Brodrick, Blind Tiger, it is officially July Good Beer Month!, Mayor Bloomberg, Ray's breakfast beer is usually an American beer, the cops remembered Jimmy & Ray from last year, The Good Beer Seal, Against the Grain, Caitlin Robin, Jimmy & Ray made beer with Sixpoint, Ray wore a jump suit, each Good Beer Seal bar will get a keg of Signal, Against the Grain feels like a wine bar even though its a beer bar, product driven and service based, private tasting events during the week, beer tasting dinners, Grape & Grain, Caitlin is a trial lawyer by day, paperwork can be intimidating, Meatopia was this weekend, Jonathan Waxman, next big event coming up: Good Beer & BAM, July 28th, 15 beers and 15 restaurants serving food, Beer Sessions on the road in Cooperstown New York, Brewery Ommegang, the Woodstock of craft beer, everybody camps, everybody who makes a Belgian style ale in the US will be there,Jeff Gorlechen & Craig Frymark of Sixpoint Craft Ales (15:30)
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Jeff Gorlechen, Craig Frymark, Craig has been with Sixpoint for three and a half years, Signal, celebrating the summer, BBQ weather, a touch of smoke malt, Simcoe Hops, the guys explain how they made Signal, second batch will have more smoke flavor, bamberg malt, John from Pacific Standard calls in!, long after the food ran out at Meatopia there was still beer!, email question about Signal: how did this beer come together, more minds always produce a better end product, all ideas are welcome, part of this beer was influenced by a home brew competition, the beer came together naturally, homebrewing secret:, you have to use liquid yeast. take a pindrop of olive oil and put it into the yeast. let it sit while you brew and when you're done with the boil pitch the yeast, olive oil is like steroids for yeast, makes cell membrane wall thick, Guerrilla Warfare, coffee beer, caffeine has interesting behavior with yeast, violent fermentation,How Craig Started Brewing & The Future of Sixpoint Craft Ales (18:39)
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The Great Brewers Test, take the test!, if you get a 95 or above you can come on Beer Sessions radio, Bree O'Connor picks the music for the show, how do you get started brewing beer?, Craig: developed his love of beer while studying abroad in London, there is a low ABV in London, drinking for flavor not the alcohol, Great British Beer Festival, How to Brew - By John Palmer, Craig met Shane in Boston at the 2nd Extreme Beer Festival, Righteous Rye, it takes a lot of dirty work to succeed at Sixpoint, Sixpoint is in Red Hook Brooklyn, Cathy Erway makes lunches for the guys sometimes, www.lunchatsixpoint.com, home cooked food fresh vegetables, what's next for Sixpoint, new beers coming out this fall!, The Tippy Dump, what is the lowest alcohol beer Sixpoint has brewed?, probably the Sweet Action, 5.0%, session ales, what is the future of local breweries?, Dave brought down a beer from Vermont made by Shaun Hill, dry hopping, hop farming, hop blight, mildew resistant hops, local hop growing, nugget hops, what's your favorite Sixpoint beer of all time, Ray: Righteous Rye, Caitlin: Hop Obama, Dave: Guerrilla Warfare, Jimmy: East Coast Amber, Jimmy opened a beer bar because of Sixpoint,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/29/2010 12:00PM
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This week on The Main Course Patrick and Mike Edison sit down with Ron Silver of NYC's (and Japan's) favorite diner Bubby's for a discussion on food safety and how much power the government should (or shouldn't) have over recalling our food. Judy McGuire (author of "How Not to Date") stops by for a discussion on dating in New York and beyond. Plus the gang cover a bevy of far-reaching topics touching on everything from the Mosque at Ground Zero (good?) to blueberry bagels (bad!). Tune in for Heritage Cooking with Chef Steve Pope, who focused this week on crispy skin! This episode was sponsored by Heritage Foods USA.
Photo 1: Bubby's in NYC, Photo 2: Judy McGuire
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Ron from Bubby's & The Egg Recall (22:56)
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Ron Silver, Bubby's, Bubb'y's Yokohama, Judy Mcguire, Dating Tips, Huge Food Recall, Egg Recall, the chickens are still sick and still producing eggs, thats still a lot of eggs in the egg stream, the FDA has no power to mandate a recall or mandate the chickens are killed, eggs are treated differently from meat, the FDA are counting on Right Egg Farm and Hill and Dale to do the right thing, the infected chickens may be used as meat chickens and the eggs may be pasteurized and used in things like mayonaise, we've all seen or heard about the way chickens are raised and produced, chickens are up to their little chicken knees in chicken excrement, Patrick saw small disgusting farms abusing animals in farms Upstate, its not about big and small, its not about perfection, was it better in the old days?, milk fever, traveling through the 3rd world Mike has never been sick eating street food or even White Castle, weakening of the American constitution, these big farms are an example of greed corruption and sloth, consumer sloth, a Czar of food, the Egg Secretary, high standards are very expensive, educating consumers to take responsibility to for what they put in their mouths, there's a real awareness of food sources in Salt Lake City, Bubby's is unique, Mike and Ron would have let GM go out of business, its hard to believe there wasn't a viable electric car 50 years ago, Mike is usually labor over management but the unions are way too powerful, corrupt unions, do companies lose the right to exist with a major mistake?, Patrick thinks there should be no Japanese cars in America, when someone put cyanide in Tylenol they invented tamper-proof packaging, what you lose on the swings you make up in the merry-go-roung, built into big business is the idea of paying fines is part of doing business, fines are part of the annual budget, As Bs and Cs in the grading system of NYC Restaurant Health Inspectors, Bubby's last inspection would have been a B, a C is like a Fail, getting a C is bad, there are a lot of weird reasons to get points, having a handsink in a certain location in a certain amount of time can be bad, the rules for hygiene are and aren't stringent in a restaurant, Mike is shocked when a big name restaurant gets a low grade, restaurants play in the top league with lots of violations, the USDA is totally ineffective, the USDA was created because of The Jungle, they closed Bird Bath simply because their sandwiches were room temperature,Dating Tips with Judy McGuire (15:19)
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How Not To Date, dating using terror warnings, Judy McGuire, Mike's go to source as usual is The Post, Exagerdating, people who date online LIE!!, men lie about their height because for every inch a man is below 5 10 he should make 40k more a year, Judy met her boyfriend online and they've been together for six years, did online dating change with dial-up vs broadband?, women's diserablity peaks at age 21, after age 44 the ball rolls off the table, has old-fashioned dating gone out of fashion?, internet dating brough old fashioned dating back in a bit because they made dates official, Judy met one guy who told her that HIV didn't cause AIDS and he doesn't use condoms, a date is two people who could possible have sex being somewhere that is planned, Judy is anti-coffee dates unless you're in AA, deal-breakers - chewing with your mouth open or bad breath or being mean to the staff, bad tippers are so socialy clueless they'll let you know they're a horrible tipper, picky eaters suck, everyone is allergic to gluten, Ron tell his staff anyone who has an allergy should stay home, Cull the Herd!, Ron gets emails from vegans asking what they can eat at Bubby's (which is nothing), everything has meat in it at Ssam Bar, are absolutely perfect dates suspicious?, someone who is too-perfect is Patrick Batemen, if you're hot enough you can get away with anything, intelligence talent and whit are the real aphrodesiacs, whoever asks should pay, if someone has a much better job they should pay, a woman should pay half if they never want to see the guy again, we can blame a lot on Sex in the City, SITC brough the WRONG kind of people to NYC, Murray Hill is filled with Post-Frat Assholes, Carrie's happiness depended on men and shoes,Mike and Judy on Dating Gone Good and Bad (15:17)
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Judy and Mike met when Judy went to MA with Reagan Youth, Mike worked at High Society and Cherry and started Climax and Buxom, sending High Times interns with all the photo-shoot pot wasn't very nice, a sense of impunity at High Times, do one-liners still work to pick up smart girls?, Mars Bar is a great place to pick up Herpes, having sex in the bathroom at Mars Bar, a lot of people have had sex on planes, girls being afraid to eat in front of guys, cooking for girls and ahving them not eat it, if a guy cooks it can be a good first date, if a girl cooks as a first date it can be weird, people are intimidated to cook for chefs, is there anything that could sanction crying on the first date?, no crying after sex or during sex, Bloomberg dated Diana Ross, it takes a brave guy to approach a girl with a bunch of girlfriends, if you have the balls to do it just go for it, the way to pick up a girl at the bar is to get her to buy YOU drinks, everyone in the studio is kinda old, bullshit people tell people in bars,Interfaith Dating and the Ground Zero Mosque (33:27)
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Interfaith dating, Ground Zero Mosque as a potential pickup place?, converting for your partner, Russian Orthodox, dating someone anti-semetic, when you're 22 years old there is more religious pressure from your family regarding your partner and kids, inter-anything couples are normal in NYC, Ron's first wife was Phillipino and it got complicated sometimes, Patrick doesn't think the mosque should be built near Ground Zero, Mike's bitter divorce with the Yankees, Mike won't step foot inside Yankee stadium, the first amendment includes the right to assemble peacefully, people cherry pick the constitution, the Police should not be the only ones with the guns, Judy has a volatile temper so she doesn't own a gun, gun shooting date?, sex on the first date, does dating imply a future?, can you date just to hang out?, sport dating, Mike has been on online dates and has felt like he's being auditioned, below the Blueberry Bagle, Skype dating, Teledildonics, remote control dildos, sex with a robot, in Rocky IV the father was dating the robot, drug use on a date?, smoking pot on the way to Bubby's, Chain Restaurants for dates for the middle of nowhere, don't go to your favorite restaurant with a potential crazy person, public displays of affection, Ron is better than picking out a last date than a first date, breakup dates, Judy says do it over the phone, an ice cold beer in the shower is a panacea, in the last decade Mike has drank 32 beers in the shower, imbalanced dates when one person had lots of fun and the other didn't, if you like film and restaurants that does not make you unique in ANY WAY, Mike's interview with Rowdy Roddy Piper, Spitzer's hooker, why do governors need to pay for sex?, they're paying for discretion and for the girl to leave, Al Goldstein always said you don't pay a prostitute to have sex you pay her to leave, was this show a date?, cereal date where you eat lots of cereal, Mike likes oatmeal, Nat Weiner has been great, How Not To Date, someone accidentally crapped in Judy's bed, Judy's dead boyfriends, Bubbys.com, an excuse to get out of a date- menstruation or food poisoning, I Have Fun Everywhere I Go,Steve Pope on Crispy Skin (4:50)
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Food Now event in Kansas City, the awareness of the Heritage bird is growing, there is a REASON why its called a Heritage bird, Birds approved by the APA, customers are demanding more quality now, Heritage birds are more resistant to disease, heritage birds are watched over, Getting a crisp skin on a roast chicken, rubbing salt on a bird so the salt tightens the skin, baking powder to tighten the skin, low and slow, a nice glossy skin cover, you can see the moisture bubbling underneath the skin, expanding the company, all chicken sausages, a preprepared dinner, the public deamnding to have better quality in their food,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
