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First Aired - 09/16/2012 03:00PM
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Jenn Tullock and Pam Stubbs are back hosting yet another episode of The Morning After! Tune in this week to hear Jenn recount a 'Front of House' New York City restaurant horror story. Later, Jenn and Pam talk with Aaron Sherman and Gianfranco Verga about their wine, spirit, and beer website, SevenFifty. Hear about the duo's initial interest in wine, and how it brought them together to form a a digital mega-list of wines from a myriad of distributors and producers. Hear about their innovations in the realm of wine tasting, and how you can compile all of your tasting notes online. Later, Jenn and Pam are joined by Brian Block, manager at Socarrat. Hear how Brian has enjoyed the transition from behind the bar to the floor, as well as his distaste of recent pretentious hipster cocktail revivalists. Hear Brian discuss his ideas on designing cocktails to match restaurant personalities, and why frozen drinks need to make a comeback. This episode has been sponsored by Hearst Ranch.
"In Florence, we met a lot of friendly people who introduced us to what it meant to have wine as a serious part of the culture and part of the meal- the thing that brought all of us to wine and restaurants in the first place." -- Aaron Sherman on The Morning After
"In Florence, we met a lot of friendly people who introduced us to what it meant to have wine as a serious part of the culture and part of the meal- the thing that brought all of us to wine and restaurants in the first place." -- Aaron Sherman on The Morning After
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Jenn Tullock's Front of House (7:45)
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Front of House, Jenn Tullock, Pam Stubbs, Aaron Sherman, Gianfranco Verga, SevenFifty, Brian Block, Twiggy, hair on fire,SevenFifty and Brian Block (21:01)
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Aaron Sherman, Gianfranco Verga, SevenFifty.com, NYU, California, Staten Island, Florence, wine, wine culture, restaurants, Joe Campanale, L'Artusi, Louis 649, cocktails, Steve Pike, Jessie Kiefer, digital tasting, wine tasting, tasting calendar, sommelier, Socarrat, Boqueria, Brian Block, Aldea, managing, sherry, booze, Mulberry Street, vodka, handlebar mustache, old fashioned, pairings,Appropriate Cocktails (12:17)
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cognac, sweet vermouth, rye whiskey, bourbon, Benedictine, wine distribution, spirits, mixology, The Tippler, frozen drinks, Lushies, Frozen Negronis, frozen sangria, Summit Bar, Death & Co., Maison Premiere, Perilla, The Lincoln, bitters, gin, Tertulia, mezcal, Sidecar, White Hall, single malt,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/30/2010 12:00PM
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This week on The Naturalist Bernie sits down with Alex Bolesta, Ariana Rickard, Chin-Li Yan, and Pierre Bull for a discussion on silk and the incredible creatures that make them: silk worms. The secret of silk's origin was kept secret for literally thousands of years, and not without purpose, for silk is stronger and tougher than tensile steel, and a piece of silk the size of a pencil could hold a 747. Tune in for a group discussion on how a tiny little worm can build fortunes and yet is still kept as pets in China. This episode was sponsored by Fairway: like no other market.
Photos: Silkworms in their various stages
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Silkworm Silk (17:29)
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Ariana Rickaio, Silkworm Nursery at the AMNH, Alex Bolesta, Chin-Li Yan raises silkworms, The Silk Road, live silk worms at the exhibit, a silk worm is not a worm but an insect, native to Asia, spins a cocoon of very fine and strong silk, the tiny point protects the heart, some people say silk worms are blind, lots of kids in China grow silk worms as pets and buy them in the grocery store, you also need mulberry leaves, a park ranger at Inwood Hill said a hundred years ago NYC tried to import lots of silk worms and mulberry trees from Asia but grew them outside instead of indoors and they died, but now we have a lot of mulberry trees in Inwood, the pioneers in Utah were encouraged to plant mulberry trees and silk worms to be self-sufficient, the Mormons are very industrious, most common color of cocoons are white, first life stage of worm is egg where the larvae develop, they stay inside the cocoon as a pupae, when the silkworms hatch out you can barely even see them, they multiply their weight ten thousand times in ten weeks, their silk glands are modified salivary glands, they move their head in a figure eight pattern to get the liquid silk out, when the liquid comes into contact with air it turns to silk, gravitiy pulls the silk out not Spiderman Style, stronger than steel, there is a difference between cocoons and moths, there are a lot of Taiwanese legends about Silk Worms, Shi Ling Tsu, a catholic priest brought a catholic priest into Europe and broke the thousand year old secret of silk, 5,000 year old industry, Whole Foods Market,Spider Silk (25:23)
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Spider silk, Golden Silk Orb Weaver, they use the silk to make webs rather than cocoon, spider silk is 2x stronger than silk worm silk and the same strength as tensile steel, strength is a measure of how much stress the material can take before breaking, toughness refers to the amount of energy a material can absord before breaking, both types of silk consist of protein chains, small chemical differences between the two account for color, the strenght comes from the physical difference between the two (the way the proteins link together etc), theres a lot of interest in using spider silk in the biomedical field and defense technology (bullet proof vests!), there have been attempts in the past to bring back classic silk making, there is an 11ft by 4ft tapestry made entirely of Golden Orb Weaver Silk, 1 million spiders made the tapestry, they were caught in the wild, chandedlier made of silk worm cocoons, 12,000 cocoons arranged around lights, the length of the strand depends on how much they have been eating, ten cocoons unraveled would be higher than Mt. Everest, it takes pounds and pounds of cocoons to make silk, it takes 630 cocoons to make a silk shirt, they unravel the cocoons then weave them, the weaving is mechanical, lots of website provide information about raising silk worms and selling them, Silk Worm Naming Project, naming silk worms after your friends on facebook, silk worm joke!, silk is used for surgery, spider silk the thickness of a pencil could hold up a 747 jet,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
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Catch It, Cook It & Eat It: Famous Fat Dave! (37:07)
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Ben Sargent, Catch It Cook It & Eat It, Heritage Radio Network, Hearst Ranch, Famous Fat Dave, Famous Fat Dave's Five Borough Eating Tour on the Wheels of Steel, food tour, Dave is a yellow cab driver, http://www.famousfatdave.com/, Dave's Faves, Spumoni Gardens, Katz's Deli, City Island, clam diggers, mussel suckers, Anthony Bourdain, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, fried catfish, south Bronx, jerk shrimp, Randazzo's Fish Market, Arthur Ave is what Mulberry St wishes it was, sea urchin, Pelham Bay, funkier than Rockaway Beach, Artie's Steak & Seafood, fried shrimp, Le Bernardin Restaurant, live octopus, Flushing, Korean BBQ, there are three types of New Yorkers: commuters natives & the immigrant, Steve's Authentic Key Lime Pies, crab legs from Costco, Deadliest Catch, sustainability, take the tour!,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
