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Steve Pope on how to cook heritage, Zarela Martinez talks Mexican food here and there, and Lisa Tucker explains the trouble with legislating for farmers.
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Steve Pope w/His New Segment on Heritage Cooking! (14:44)
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steve pope, Good Shepard Ranch, 6 minute segments on Heritage cooking, Heritage meats don't always respond the same way that commodity meats do, certain heritage chickens are meant for certain recipes, when Grandma's pantry was her backyard, genetically engineer birds, lose no flavor or nutritional value, Wheat Harvest Midday Chicken, HeritageChef.com, cold as well as hot, laying chicken in a bed of onions and flour, a cup of whipping cream is the decadent part, a German and Czeck recipe, low and slow, condensed milk instead of whipping cream, poured over homemade biscuits, pig out!,Steve Pope on Chicken Meat & The Slow and Low (2:54)
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why the low and slow?, range free, a society that demands white meat, true flavor comes from dark meat, building muscle tissue, breaking down the muscle tissue, avoiding tough meat, al dente meat, cooking lunch for harvesters, serving chicken cold on sandwiches, one thousand baby turkeys, a minimum of 2 and half months to mature, birds will live for ten years, if you take care of nature and your body things will be healthy, Steve is a registered nurse, following rules when you cook, ReeseTurkeys.com,Zarela Martinez on Mexican Food (16:03)
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Nat Weiner loves the crazy banjo song, Edwards and Sons of Surry Virginia, Zarela Martinez, www.zarela.com, Wallace Edwards and Sons, Cafe Marimba, the press helped, Fodors called Mexican food in America in 1981 sub par, layering flavors, regional Mexican food, Sonora, Vera Cruz, a PBS series on Vera Cruz, African and Caribbean influences, cooking of the coast versus cooking of the mountains, Nuevo Mexican, Bicentennial of Mexican Independence, the Mexican corn kitchen, American corn is not the same as Mexican corn, calcium hydroxide, the Museum of the American Indian, Mole, all Moles don't have chocolate, Mole is a pureed sauce with chilis and a sweetener, main dish sauce where the sauce is the dish, traditional mole was without a protein but with a starch, hoja santa, Piper Sanctum, annis flavor, Mexican drink tequila straight, celebrating Mexican couples, Lola Beltran, the two mountains, the sleeping lady, aguamiel, probiotics, hard cider,Zarela's Culinary Epiphany (23:35)
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manchamanteles, chilcostle, Sonora, destinos, auras, Guadalajara, tepoztlan, torta de marisco, finishing school, the seven moles of huachuca, Americans like sweet corn, starting April 11 HRN listeners get a free margarita!, 953 Second Av, Quintana Roo, pork with cabbage, Magda Bogin, no smiling Mayan Gods, The Sun and the Air, The Sleeping Twins, lookin good,Lisa Tucker on Agricultural Legislation (11:44)
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Lisa Tucker, Field and Fork network, getting more local food on the plates of Western NY, more restaurants sourcing local in NY than ever before, 7500 farms in the region, you can't legislate when farmers need their workers, sometimes you have to work more or less depending on weather, Albany farming legislation, FL tomato workers scandal, labor rights, injustices, what is a realistic and fair way to write farm worker legislation?, who has the most money and influence?, state politics, Farm Bureau,Lisa Tucker on CAFOs (20:26)
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450 to 900 acres, when larger farms are affected it trickles down to smaller farms, impacting the services that support smaller farmers, processing facilities going out of business, Biontech, closed loop system, harnessing methane, Confined Area Feeding Operation, no one wants to encourage Confined Area Feeding but it represents a huge amount of our agriculture GDP, its hard to advertise confined area feeding ops, one of the poorest counties in NY state, CAFO, the cattle industry, the beef industry is hesitant to embrace closed loop CAFOs, Ancient White Park Cattle, non-commodity farmers can't feed the world, tied into the ethanol industry, ethanol is a disaster,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
