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First Aired - 02/26/2012 01:00PM
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There are few topics more important in this country than the health of our children, and this week on Straight, No Chaser host Katy Keiffer chats with Jessica Donze Black, project director for the Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project at the Pew Health Group, The Pew Charitable Trusts. Together they discuss some of the efforts being made to ensure that all of the food choices available to kids at school are healthy choices. Find out how vending machines can be used for good and why standards like snacks and bake sales need to be re-imagined to achieve food safety at our schools. Learn more about healthy school food here. This program was sponsored by Cain Vineyard & Winery.
"What we want to do is set minimum standards so that all children have access to healthy food choices. We want parents to be comfortable knowing that ALL of the food choices that their children would have at school would be choices [the parents] would be comfortable with."
"The beverage industry has agreed to stop selling full sugar-sweetened beverages to schools, such as full-sugar soda."
"New York is a place that has made some significant changes in the school environment and in early childhood development. So far the results are really encouraging."
--Jessica Donze Black, project director for the Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project on Straight, No Chaser
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First Aired - 06/18/2013 06:30PM
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Following up last week's show, Erica takes on the foodiness-ification of one of her favorite beverages- tea! Tune into this episode to hear how companies like Arizona have bastardized the drink so it no longer resembles the flavor of tea! Hear how varieties of tea like oolong and earl gray are related, and why tea flavors vary. Arizona Iced Tea and Snapple are not healthier than soda! If Dunkin Donuts sells it, it can't be healthy. Make your own tea; listen to Let's Get Real! This program has been brought to you by Cain Vineyard & Winery. Today's break music has been provided by SNOWMINE.
"Tea is actually really good for you! It's filled with lots of antioxidants... but not when it has twenty five grams of sugar and not any actual tea in it." [11:45]
-- Erica Wides on Let's Get Real
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Arizona Isn't Tea (18:27)
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tea, beverage, food, palate, caffeine, Dostoevsky, instant coffee, Russia, food science, lemon, milk, coagulation, conveyor belt sushi restaurant, green tea, foodiness, Snapple, reusing tea bags, unsweetened, juice, energy drinks, Kool Aid, ooling, terroir, bergamot, smoked teas,Toxic Sludge (10:28)
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Arizona tea bags, BP Oil Spill, marine life, toxic sludge, pollution, Gulf of Mexico, sports drinks, hypocrisy, flavoring, vodka, creamsicles, Taylor Swift, cicadas, sun tea,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/10/2010 12:00PM
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This week on Cooking Issues Dave and Nastassia spoke about the scientific wonders of Miracle Fruit, buying a Dutch Oven, cooking pasta as if it were risotto, fixing (and cleaning!) a refrigerated centrifuge from Ebay via a blood bank, plus a fascinating and brief history of the Tichborne Dole. This episode was sponsored by Fairway: like no other market.
Photo 1: Mircale Fruit, Photo 2: The Tichborne Dole
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Cooking Issues Introduction: Miraculin, Cooking Pasta & Meat Glue (17:26)
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Cooking Issues, Dave Arnold, Fairway Market, mircale fruit, Miraculin, binds to your sweet receptors, causes things that taste sour to also activate your sweet receptors, flavor tripping parties, if you want to try under controlled circumstances come to the Harold McGee lecture series, there is also a substance that erases your sense of sweet, dutch ovens, why use a plastic knob?, you can use any knob you want, be careful you don't get your enamel cast iron too too hot, check the cast iron cookware post on Cooking Issues, Dave's advice for cooking pasta, Cesare Casella, he sometimes cooks his pasta like risotto, add salt for flavor, boiling water is a fine temperature to use, pre soak dry method, pre soak dry paste, reducing cooking time, meat glue question, are there local sources of meat glue, meat glue is an enzyme that you can use to bind proteins together, totally natural, you usually have to invest in a kilo of it, desire for meat glue amongst chefs has increased, Ajinomoto,Ice Law, Pimped Out Centrifuges & Tender Turkey (14:08)
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email question about ice, the fundamental rule of all cocktails: there is no chilling other than from dilution, there is no dilution without chilling, the only way ice can chill is through melting, in a stirred drink it will get colder with small ice, ice is ice from a physics standpoint, depends on surface area, how effective are you shaking?, centrifuge, good for delicious nut oils, olive oil, clarified fruit juice, refrigerated centrifuge, Dave won it on ebay for $99!, equipment troubleshooting, it's a good sign when you plug something in and nothing happens at all, a pressure cooking is a poor persons autoclave, getting meat tender with food safety issues in mind, sous vide, combi oven, 65 degrees celcuis should be enough for turkey, cvap oven,Cvap Ovens, Water & The Tichborne Dole (13:12)
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cooking tender but safe meat, beef techniques, c vap oven, you can't accurately control the temperature of a regular oven, moisture always evaporates off your food and changes the temperature of the oven, you can set humidity of 100% on a cvap, low temperature work with a circulator and sous vide, there is little potential for re contamination with sous vide, Fix The Pumps, Darcy O'Neil, soda fountain, recipes for making your own mineral water, seltzer was originally water from a place in Germany, magnesium chloride, tofu coagulant, magnesium sulfate, Epsom salts, bottled waters used to be known as purgative, carbonation, bitterness, calcium carbonate modifies the bubbles, it's not very soluble, they added some phosphoric acid, Co2 water, Nastassia doesn't like any of the mineral waters, Mineral Waters of Europe, Google Books, the story of The Tichborne Dole, The Crawls, The Curse,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
