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First Aired - 06/08/2010 06:30PM
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Hear about the not-so illustrious reputation of Waldbaum's canned peas and their sulfurous opening scent, and where you can get the best fresh peas as a delicious alternative to the can.
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Why We Cook Introduction: The Sloan House & Shabbos (11:55)
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Why We Cook, Erica Wides, Heritage Radio Network, Institute of Culinary Education, School of Visual Arts, there used to be no dorms, Sloan House YMCA, residence on 34th st and 9th ave, the decline years of New York, mid to late 20th century, Far Rockaway, Erica lived there when she was born, moved the next year to Eastern Long Island, Orthodox Jewish Side, Sabbath, Shabbos,Peas Out! (9:15)
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laws of the sabbath, you cannot cook from sunset on Friday to sunset on Saturday, you have to separate meat and dairy meals, sliced meats, Empire Kosher, Erica's grandmother was an early adapter of convenience foods, cold sliced tongue, bowl of peas, cold canned peas, it's a miracle that Erica even likes food after suffering that abuse, Waldbaums, a lot of people grow up thinking they don't like peas because they've never had them fresh, when you pick them sugars convert to starch, Erica's family grew shelling peas, English peas, if you're gonna grow them use sugar snaps, you don't have to do any work but trim off the tough stem, you get to eat the pea and the pod,Sugar Snap Peas & A Bee Update (8:41)
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Julia Waldbaums, blanch sugar snap peas, whole wheat fettuccine, collard greens, sauteed with garlic, blanched sugar snaps, added old prosciutto and walnuts, mixed with ricotta, non fat ricotta is kind of grainy, sugar snaps are like two vegetables in one, eating the first peas of the years is one of the greatest joys in food, bee update!, www.whywecook.com,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 04/04/2013 12:45PM
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This week on Rooftop Farming with Ben Flanner, Ben calls in to talk with Erin Fairbanks about transplanting kale and compost. Learn how to transplant seedlings into the ground, and find out why compost needs to cure in order to curb weed outbreaks! Find out how local businesses have helped Ben with mulching!
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What's Poppin'? (8:44)
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Japanese turnips, lettuce, salad greens, carrots, peas, Ben Flanner, root balls, cover crops, alfalfa meal, natural, nitrogen, organic, seeding, fresh compost, weeds, peppers, compost inputs, Mast Brothers, chocolate husk, waste product, mulch, kale,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/29/2010 03:30PM
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This week on We Dig Plants join Carmen and Alice as they speak to Scott Apell, horticultural taxonomist, about some of the stranger and more exotic vegetables available this summer. Learn about snow peas with extra serrated wings, why eggplants are never guys, and the best way to make gooseberry pie! This episode was sponsored by White Oak Pastures.
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Scott Apell: Off the Horticultural Beaten Path (15:54)
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White Oak Pastures, we've had our fill of common vegetables, uncommon vegetables, its hot in Vieques, Scott Appell, The Green Man, Scott is a horticultural taxonomist, Scott is an author as well, The Horticultural Society of New York, Scott is up to his elbows in gooseberries, Gooseberries are from Sri Lanka, Gooseberries do well in drought and purple with a few edible seeds in them, Gooseberry pie, Okinawa Spinach, a daisy cousin, puslane, purslane is high in iron and potassium, purslane with fresh tomatoes and red onion, Asian winged beans, a snow pea with four edges, the edges are serrated, they're a legume, everything is available from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, www.Heirloomseeds.com, is it easy to grow an Asian winged pea?, this is not a spring pea however, you need a trellis to grow it, how many days of growing until harvest?, just like a regular pea the young leaves and pea shoots make a great vegetable, Mexican Sour Gerkin, it looks like a watermelon, they are great in salads raw or as pickles, cook them like you would tomatoes or eggplants,More Uncommon Vegetables (14:12)
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The Ramones - When I Eat Vegetables I Think of You, people need to try new vegetables, for a couple of bucks for a pack of seeds why not?, for years people didn't eat things in the nightshade family, now we've accepted members of the nightshade family, eggplants are part of a really toxic group, nightshades are gorgeous looking, multi-colored eggplants and tomatoes look great in a flower bed, Eggplant is from India, Naranjilla, means little orange, Naranjilla is from the Andes and looks like an eggplant on steroids, the fruit is like a small bright yellow cherry tomato with a green interior, you can make sorbets or juices out of them, its easily five feet tall, Cassabanana, the fruit is incredibly fragrant, the fruit has bright orange flesh and is very juicy and delicious, its a big plant and needs support as it can grow up to 50 feet tall, the fruit ripening in time may be an issue, fruit vs vegetable is really a culinary thing, botanically something with seeds is a fruit, you often hear on cooking shows how the male egg plant is more bitter than the female eggplant, that's a ridiculous statement like calling a pregnant woman male, if it has seeds its the swollen female ovary of a plant, Scott has the life!, could you grow the Naranilla in Colorado?,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
