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First Aired - 09/22/2010 07:00PM
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This week on Burning Down the House Curtis and friends speak to Wayne Curtis, journalist and resident of New Orleans ("the Caribbean's northernmost city, rather than the USA's southernmost city"), about post-Katrina development and rebuilding the 9th Ward and beyond. Wayne Curtis brings up a number of issues not touched upon in major media coverage of the disaster, including the fact that Rita, not Katrina, caused the death blow, missed opportunities to create permanent housing (cheaper than dangerous FEMA trailers) prevented by Federal Laws, plus the tension between Brad Pitt / FEMA's rebuilding techniques verses the (admittedly controversial) preferred techniques of the 9th Ward populace. Don't miss this candid and unique debate about rebuilding New Orleans, a city with a history that "values the acquisition of leisure rather than wealth". This episode was sponsored by Fairway: like no other market.
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Fairway Market Commercial (1:00)
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Fairway Market, serious about food, Heritage Radio Network, finding happiness through food, Steve Jenkins,Burning Down The House Intro - The Sound of the City (9:00)
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Curtis B. Wayne, Heritage Radio Network, Burning Down The House, Leila, Fairway Market, Caroline Bailey, voix populaire, Rachael Wharton, deputy editor of Edible Brooklyn, having a common acoustic experience, Frank Lloyd Wright playing Beethoven on his piano, the age of the iPod, the sound of a city, New York theaters, subway music, New Orleans, The Big Easy, the music capital of this country, the rebuilding of New Orleans, 5 years after Hurricane Katrina, the prolific writer Wayne Curtis, loved the vibe of New Orleans, Louis Armstrong, the one thing New York and New Orleans have in common,Hurricane As Urban Renewal (10:00)
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Wayne Curtis, Curtis Wayne, up in Maine, The Gulf Coast as the third coast, written extensively for The Atlantic, rum, And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails, the rebuilding of New Orleans, it's not hard to fall in love with New Orleans, family in New Orleans, Curtis owes New Orleans money, all pre-hurricane records have been lost, central lockup, The Supreme Court on Royal Street, researching a rum book in New Orleans, no good reason for not living in New Orleans, the rebuilding process will make it more interesting than ever, an interesting time to relocate, rebuilding has been more deep-rooted than people expected, below sea level, the original settlers, French Quarter, the Mississippi river, the annual flooding of the river, the highest point is on the river bank, Lake Pontchartrain, about 50% of the city's below sea level, a little bit like Venice, the old shotgun shacks, the indigenous architecture of the poor, post war architecture was hit hardest by the hurricane, homes built on brick piers, built to withstand flooding, post WWII architectural hubris, pumping out the cyprus swamps, developments built on slabs below sea level, the older the building the better it survived Katrina because of location, The French Quarter was basically untouched, no flooding in the Garden District, tourist areas mostly untouched, second-tier tourism areas, New Orleans has always looked a little shabby, population peaked sometime in the 1950s, a lot of blight pre-Katrina in New Orleans, Hurrican Katrina, a lot of peaople couldn't afford to rebuild, reconfiguring the city for a new era, Hurricane as urban renewal,New Orleans is a Caribbean City (10:00)
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nice doleful Cajun music, what happened to the Cajuns, outside Lafayette, Rita hit that part of the coast much more forcibly than Katrina, the rebuilding has been spotty, down in the bayous, New Orleans is defensible, south of New Orleans is much harder to protect, resignation, something has to change, outside movie-lore we don't understand much of the culture there, New Orleans is a Caribbean City, creole roots, America's southern-most city, the Caribbean's northern most city, the approach that people take to building their houses, Brad Pitt and the do-gooders, FEMA, imposing Minnesota standards on a Caribbean city, allow people to rebuild as they would, the accumulation of wealth, the accumulation of leisure, over-investing in lower ninth ward houses, debating building standards, the flooding looked like it was 10 to 12 feet, a tidal wave after the breach, The Brad Pitt Houses are above historic flood levels, catastrophic breach in the levee wall, Thom Mayne, Noah's Ark, how do you build a neighborhood amongst houses on stilts, how do you combine safety with neighborliness, people want to live on the ground, Byron Mouton, sacrificing the ground floor, sensible beach houses in New Jersey, waterlogged, cost-cutting has caused real tragedies of design in the rebuilding, architects should be mindful of the budget, concentrating the reconstruction, lot redistribution, making sure the neighborhood comes back with more than just buildings, rebuilding social connections, coming back to New Orleans, just 35 houses have been rebuilt and occupied, looks like Chernobyl, over 100 more houses in the pipeline, church groups are building houses, the lower 9th ward, the thumb of God came down and wiped it all out, The Make It Right houses, outcry and neighborhood meetings, revamping the development plan, change along the way, Andres Duany,It's Complicated (13:20)
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rebuilding Haiti, handouts to New Orleans, the Bush Administration, so much money went to Mississippi, Governor Haley Barbour, corruption in New Orleans, mismanagement of the money, where's Oprah, the libertarian democracy of Brooklyn, Haiti is rebuilding much faster than New Orleans, 3500 tent camps in Haiti, the debate over what to do with the 9th ward, you can't have a vibrant community without commerce, a walker's city, New Orleans never really went through the urban renewal of the 1950s and 60s, community needs small buisness, Make It Right, the people need jobs, lower ninth was a post-war subdivision, stores are not coming back where they should, the budding transit system, the lower ninth ward was never the paragon of a walkable community, a residential area, truck farms, the urban farming movement in Brooklyn, community farmers market in New Orleans East, political issues, smells like a land grab to residents, The Ford Foundation, politically untenable, the Roberta's backyard garden, the stagnation of decision making, everyone wanted it rebuilt in a year, the centralized planning approach collapsed, a 10 to 15 year process, the plan to create huge Levittowns across New Orleans, the Katrina Cottage, toxic FEMA trailers, uniform lots, under federal law FEMA can only provide emergency housing, FEMA could not put in permanent housing by law, rum research, Wayne's favorite cocktail is the daiquiri, the daiquiri is almost the perfect drink, the run shrub, shrubs are liquid jams, the reemergence of shrubs, pre-refrigeration technique for capturing the flavor of summer, Roberta's has a margarita machine, visiting right after the hurricane, crime doesn't take a break in New Orleans, Heritage Radio Network in The Style Section of The New York Times,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/31/2009 02:00PM
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This week, DJ Never Forget hosts Lauren Flax, Liz Carollo of the green market & Flosstradamus.
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Introduction & Food Talk with Lauren Flax (7:47)
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Dinner With The Band, Jack Inslee, Wreck Tech, Lauren Flax, green market, Liz Carollo, organic butchers, Kingston, ny, sausages, high end sausage, BLT, bacon, Joshua Appleston, Craig Murphy, Jelly NYC, Girl Talk, Grizzly Bear, Tekserve, Fleischers, s, Roberta,Liz Carollo of Green Market (7:52)
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Green Market, open air farmers markets, 49 currently running, 60 farmer's markets a week throughout the five boroughs, food is grown within 200 miles of the city, Carroll Gardens, Long Island Sound, 17 markets stay open year round, Green Market has been going since 1976, Bob Lewis, Department of Agriculture and Markets, Union Square, myth of green market as a luxury, EBT Program, wireless terminals, food stamps, EBT enrollment has seen a spike this year, farmers markets can be cheaper than grocery stores, http://www.cenyc.org, Drop The Lime - Devils Eyes,DJ Never Forget Live Set (9:17)
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DJ Never Forget Talks With Flosstradamus (8:12)
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Chicago, grown & sexy summer, Japan, Kid Sister, jet lag, end of summer yard sale, food with a face, shrimp, fish, noodles, Super Deluxe, shopping mall, Hot Dogs, old school Chicago Italian pizza places, recession, Flosstradamus, Josh's last meal would be Fat Willies Rib Shack pulled pork sandwich with collard greens and cole slaw, Curt's last meal would be Puffer Fish cut the wrong way,Flosstradamus Grown & Sexy BBQ End Of Summer Mix (21:58)
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First Aired - 10/03/2010 12:00PM
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This week on The Main Course Patrick and Katie take a look at some folks who have rejected a broken food distribution network and created their own. Scott Boggs of The Breslin stops by to describe his past as a butcher ("before it was cool") and how he's currently benefiting from growing food locally and selling it at NYC restaurants. Liza Shaw of A16 in San Francisco speaks on how they've taken the ideas of local sourcing and seasonal menus from Italy to the West Coast, and why their customers are coming back to try new things. Finally Daniel Imhoff, Editor of "CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories" calls in to talk about why we need to fight back against industrial feed lots with anti-biotics legislation, local farming, and realism about the devastating health consequences of factory farmed animals. This episode was sponsored by Fairway: like no other market.
Photo 1: Breslin on W 29th St. in NYC, Photo 2: Liza Shaw of A16 Restaurant in San Francisco, Photo 3: "CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories", edited by Daniel Imhoff
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The Main Course Introduction (11:22)
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The Main Course, Patrick Martins, Katy Keiffer, Heritage Radio Network, Roberta's, agriculture, Roberta's just had a huge article in NY Mag, Roberta's gets credit as a DIY empire, there is nothing DIY about Roberta's, lots of teamwork and expertise, no outside contractors or industrial grade products, April Bloomfield, Katy is a meat geek, laws against photos in slaughterhouses, commercial livestock productions,Scott Boggs of The Breslin (22:36)
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The Breslin, The Spotted Pig, Scott Boggs, The French Laundry, Thomas Keller, Scott was butchering for them, The Mangalista Pig, charcuterie pig, Red Wattle, Berkshire, Flying Pig Farms, value of charcuterie, Jacobson Orchard, biodynamic farming, April Bloomfield, restaurants with farms, local sourcing, sustainability, 6 day a week harvests, most farms don't have tons of storage, the story of your food as a marketing tool, Egg, Brooklyn Grange, Roberta's,Closing Thoughts with Scott Boggs (6:53)
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chefs buying food from Green Markets, there is a disconnect from food in the US, we allowed prepared foods to take over, Liza Shaw, A 16, supporters of taste,Liza Shaw of A 16 Restaurant (17:28)
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Liza Shaw, A 16, Carlo Petrini's favorite Italians restaurant outside of Italy, more pork than beef, it's important to keep food cost down as a chef, butchering in house, no two people butcher the same way, the future of the Main Course, it's a challenge to use the whole animal, ofal cuts, introduce people slowly to new things, pork liver terrine, micro seasons within seasons, VeggieWorks, bringing in small farmers as well, farmers markets, Bay Area, growing the movement, cheaper and faster isn't always better, how do we teach people to cook?, cooking TV has been a huge influence on home cooks, there is an A16 in Tokyo,Daniel Imhoff, Editor of CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories (26:25)
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CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories, The Foundation for Deep Ecology, Daniel Imhoff, Plundering Appalachia, what is happening with industrialization of animals for food, Matthew Scully, investigative journalists, Michael Pollan, it's very difficult to get access to animal factories, Daniel bought a majority of the photos from the AP, limited access for photographers, Confined Animal Feeding Operations, Oprah Winfrey, how much of America's meat dairy and eggs are produced in CAFOs?, the top 5% of the big livestock corporations produce 50% of all animal products in the US, flooding the market with cheap commodities, fast food is not cheaper!, is it that much cheaper to raise livestock in such an industrial manner?, health impacts, Daniel raises small livestock for his family, conscious omnivore, Diet for a Small Planet, health is something we can all agree on, high rates of saturated fats are linked to grain fed industrially raised animals, pay your farmer or pay the hospital, battling obesity, how can we change the model and still feed all Americans?, antibiotic legislation, there are 800 million hungry people in the world and 1 billion obese people, trade blogs, Heritage Foods USA is a solution!, perennial based pastured based agriculture, water filtration, Wendell Berry, return to animal husbandry,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
