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First Aired - 03/25/2010 12:00PM
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Jayne Cohen talks about Passover cuisine and her books "Jewish Holiday Cooking" and "The Gefilte Variations".
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A Taste of the Past Introduction: Jewish Holiday Cooking with Jayne Cohen (14:32)
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Linda Pelaccio, A Taste of the Past, Heritage Radio Network, Dickson's Farmstand Meats, Jayne Cohen, Jewish Holiday Cooking, Potato Latkes, Jewish cuisine, Judaism, Passover, nut paste, seder, creative and traditional recipes, dumplings, bitter herb, slow roasted eggs on top of a sabbath stew, eggs roasted overnight, buried in onion skins, coffee grinds, Sephardi Jews, the egg is layered with meaning in Jewish tradition, symbolism of Temple sacrifice, mourning, life, rebirth, optimism, circular everlasting life, chopped liver, leek croquettes, traditional seder dinner, Iranian Jews, Ashkenazi Jews, fun experience for children, singing, dipping, tradition of hiding a piece of matzoh,The Gefilte Variations & Passover Cuisine (18:04)
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comment on the show, international cuisine, gefilte fish, foods of Central Asian Jews, beet and turnip soup, chicken with dried berberis, no table is complete without fish, fish represents good luck and fertility, fish broth, poached in cabbage leaves, innovative recipes, Wolfgang Puck, tarragon, gefilte variations, mahi mahi, salmon, Jewish people are very diverse people, eating regionally, seasonally, locavore, Jews were expelled from France at the end of the 14th century, they remained in the south of France, Swiss chard, spinach, olive oil, Italian Jewish recipes, matzoh lasagna, eggplant parmigiana, walnut cakes, glutton free diets, vegetarian and vegan dishes for the holidays, matzoh polenta, Michael Romano, caramelized food, mushrooms,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 11/22/2009 01:15PM
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Food historian and friend of the show Andy Smith stops by to give us some context for the food we eat on Thanksgiving. Also on the show, Curtis B. Wayne.
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The Main Course Part Q: Introduction (10:00)
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Roberta's, The Main Course Part Q, Andy Smith, food historian, Curtis B. Wayne, Burning Down The House, Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine, Thanksgiving food, venison, turkey, foul, pigeon, pheasant, quail, swan, Native Americans, Edward Winslow, New England, a small footnote on a letter noted that it was the first Thanksgiving, there was no description of dinners until the 1780's, political climate, Sarah Josepha Hale, Northwood, pot pies, fall vegetables, America needed a fall holliday, The Civil War, the conformity of the foods we eat, wild rice, heritage breeds, Minesotta wild rice, green beans and gravy, cream of mushroom soup, marshmallows, egg whites and sugar, 1920's, corn syrup, holiday tradition,Wild Turkey! (10:00)
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food factoids, The New School, Drinking History, historical recipes, modern recipes, Esquire, whiskey and sugar, whiskey, turkey is the centerpiece for every description of a meal in America, pigs, the goal of Thanksgiving is to bring family together, the turkey feeds a lot of people, turkeys are smaller and faster now, big turkeys couldn't fly, wild turkeys used to be larger than domestic turkeys, enormous wild turkeys in Staten Island, rapid transit train, Patrick Martins, Naraganset breed, broad breasted white, Moses crossing the Red Sea was an original symbol idea for America, The Bald Eagle was chosen, the turkey would have been better, the turkey was an asain bird, guinne hens come from Africa, American Indians think Thanksgiving should be celebrated as a day of mourning, fish on Thanksgiving, oyster stuffing, New York Harbor was the largest oyster bed in the world in colonial and american times, Perry Rosso, wild turkeys were feared for extintion, first animal that was reintroduced to the wild sucessfully, more wild turkeys in America today than when Europeans first arrived, lyme disease, Eerie Canal, American's loved inexpensive foods, sweet potatos, Central South America, kasava, peanuts changed the economy, Washington Carver did not populize peanuts!,Peanuts, Potatos & Tomatos (13:20)
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Roberta's, peanut butter, Geroge Washington Carver, sweet potatos, peanuts as a sharecropper crop, one of the first African Americans to address Congress, peanut companies latch on to him, lard, Crisco, the Yam is an African plant that comes into America through slave trade, the sweet potato inside can be any color, Yams was slang for sweet potatos, Thanksgiving was a northern holiday, celebrated in some parts of the south, it wasn't a state holiday until the late 1900's, celebrated in the South before The Civil War, potatos started in South America then went to Europe then the United States, starch crops, food history, tomato blight, blight, rooftop garden, tomatos didn't become popular until the 1820's, The Spanish don't run into the tomato until 1518, first recipe was published in Italy in 1543, ketchup, catsup, corn, cornbread, beans, turducken, renaissance recipe,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
