Let's Get Real
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First Aired - 07/10/2012 06:30PM
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Ever wonder whats really inside those chicken nuggets that you love so much? On this week's Let's Get Real, Erica Wides is here to tell you that it's...well, not chicken! Maybe it comes from a chicken, but, hey- what is chicken these days? Is it a bird? A flavor? Or a finger? Tune into this episode to learn more about what goes into so many "chicken-esque" products these days. Erica also explains why buying a whole chicken from your favorite market (super or not) is essential in connecting food and agriculture in people's minds. And don't believe the hype about white meat! Learn how foodiness and fat-phobic propaganda has led America to only eat certain parts of a chicken instead of the whole bird. This program has been brought to you by The International Culinary Center.
"Dark meat poultry is infinitely better for you. It has much higher mineral content, it's a better form of protein, it just tastes better for you. The fat content is minimally higher than the white meat, and eat the skin! Chicken fats are really good for you." -- Erica Wides on Let's Get Real
"Dark meat poultry is infinitely better for you. It has much higher mineral content, it's a better form of protein, it just tastes better for you. The fat content is minimally higher than the white meat, and eat the skin! Chicken fats are really good for you." -- Erica Wides on Let's Get Real
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Chicken of the Woods and Chicken of the Factory (17:26)
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hiking, beer, grilling, developed world, exercise, horses, potato people, Wall-E, mushroom foraging, mushrooms, fungus, The Olive Garden, weather, climate change, drought, liberals, morels, chicken of the woods, hen of the woods, hipster, Brooklyn, Beatlemania, Oasis, locavore, hallucinogen, Willem Dafoe, Basquiat, New Hampshire, foodiness, chicken, chicken breast, mycorrhizal, Chicken of the Sea, Wikipedia, Chris Nutter, gay, chicken sausage, McBites, chicken hot dogs, Chicken In A Biscuit, Whitney Houston, crackhead, Marlon Brando, Monsanto, protein paste, hen house, Tyson, diabetes, vegans, Macaulay Culkin, nuggets, bird, chicken-like substance,White vs. Dark Meat (19:07)
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First Aired - 09/27/2011 06:30PM
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This week Let's Get Real goes ripe for seasonality as Chef Erica Wides expounds on the disillusionment that foodiness has created: that seasonal items like strawberries are good and available all year round. Fighting this notion of faux-seasonality Erica will guide you to making smarter choices that that you don't need to be an elite Brooklyn foodie to follow that allows you to fight foodiness at the same price for fast food. As the seasons change maybe it's a good time to think about doing the same with your eating habits, so Let's Get Real. This episode is sponsored by Whole Foods Market.
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Faux Seasonality (34:47)
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Let's Get Real, Erica Wides, Michelle Bachmann, seasonality, produce, fruits and vegetables, Bible, the ripeness of fruit, foodiness, Wall-E, diabeatus, processed corn, processed meat, year-round seasonality, faux-seasonality, New York Times, Mark Bittman, fast food, fast food is cheaper, fast food is easy, people can't cook, ripe peaches, strawberry flavor, cousins, food deserts, suburbs, not knowing how to cook, fluke, Montauk, protein, roasting vegetables, collander, foodie, Brooklyn, elitism, Roberta's, food practicality, food fascist, apple season, pear season, Thanksgiving, turkeys, strawberries, seasons for dummies, raised on foodiness, fake farmer's market, farmer's markets, asparagus, eating with the seasons,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 11/15/2010 01:00PM
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This week on Let's Eat In Cathy speaks to Todd Alström of Beer Advocate and Shane Welsh of Sixpoint Brewery. Learn how Beer Advocate has become the premiere source of beer reviews and a catalyst for festivals in Boston--from their humble beginnings during the nascent stages of the Interwebs (1996!) to their new print monthly magazine. Tune in for talk about "extreme" beer, traditional beer, and everything in between. This episode was sponsored by Cabot Cheese of Vermont, Dairy Farm Family owned since 1919
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Let's Eat In Introduction: Beer Advocate (15:40)
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Todd Alström, Beer Advocate, Shane Welsch, Sixpoint Brewery, the pioneering days of Beer Advocate in 1996, what was the original intention of Beer Advocate?, in 96 Todd and his brother Jason were homebrewing and taking notes on their homebrews, then they began taking notes on other brewers and posting the reviews on a website, Beer Advocate evolved organically, spreading the good word about good beer, promoting the industry as a whole, Beer Advocate is now a magazine, Beer Advocate is the only monthly beer mag in the US, magazines are dropping like leaves, beer festivals, Annual Extreme Beerfest, extreme beer is about brewing beer that pushes boundaries, creative beer, exotic ingredients, bringing back old methods of brewing, is the festival itself actually extreme?, it can be hard to find a lot of great beers on the market, outrageous hot pepper beers, It Tastes Like Burning, 120 or 150 IBU beers, a potential waste of hops, PBRs, American's palates are going bigger and bolder, Americans love sweet and salty things but not bitter things, the hop is one of the most bitter compounds on Earth, offsetting malt syrup with bitterness, a single hop cone is intensely bitter, the terroir of American hops,Beer Festivals & Beyond (13:24)
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can you live off beer?, beer IS food, Candice runs the festivals but Beer Advocate is still a 2 person company, any plans to bring the festivals out of Boston?, maybe a BK festival!, Todd's favorite date beer, Deus from Belgium is brewed exactly like Champagne so it would be a good date beer, nature's Viagra, potential raw fish ahhh!, Todd makes a good beef Stroganoff, the food usually at beer festivals, muscles cooked in Belgian beer, Sunset Grill, cooking with beer is really big right now, beer and food is a natural combination, German smoked beer, The Homebrew Chef, Belgian beer festivals and shouting, pockets of shouting people who flail their hands and shout, Great American Beer Festival, drop plastic cup on the ground, Get Real: a celebration of real ale, you can't excite people with normal beer at a normal festival, Get Real was so successful because it was the first time so much cask conditioned ale was featured at a festival, live yeast, distributors have mixed feelings about beer festivals, brewers will make beer for the fest so distributors get frustrated since they won't have it in stock, Shane likes the idea of brewing for a one-time deal and not for profit,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
