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First Aired - 04/10/2011 12:00PM
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This week on The Main Course, Patrick & Katy are joined by Carmen Quagliata, Executive Chef of Union Square Cafe and George Weld, owner of Egg Restaurant. They both elaborate on what it takes to run a successful restaurant in NYC and address some of the challenges that come along with sourcing sustainably and locally. Later on the show, Kristy Hadeka & Sean Tice of Brooklyn Slate stop by to explain how they've re imagined slate material in a very interesting way. This episode was sponsored by Fairway Market - like no other market.
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The Main Course: Carmen Quagliata of Union Square Cafe (22:11)
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The Main Course, Patrick Martins, Katy Keiffer, Fairway Market, Union Square Cafe, Carmen Quagliata, he started as a dishwasher in his hometown, Binghampton, Sicilian soul food, lentils, chick peas, kitchen apprenticeship, Naples, Florida, Ritz Carlton, service mentality, Italian cuisine, French cuisine, California, West Coast food scene, Chef Michael Chiarello, hierarchy of Northern California restaurants, Napa Valley, French Laundry, Tra Vigne, the life of a line cook, responsibility, hiring tendencies, personality traits, the IT factor, Felidia, Lidia Bastianich,The Danny Meyer Tradition (17:20)
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competition amongst restaurants, Danny Meyer tradition, sourcing, authorship, adapting recipes, creativity, United Nations report, Bill Gates, just committed 1.4 billion into agricultural development in Africa and South Asia, opposition to bio technology and nitrogen fertilizer, environmental concerns, certain decisions are made based on price point, sustainability, organic, goat, Australian lamb, domestic animals, value cuts, ofal, veal shoulder, braising, artichokes, Chicken Cordon Bleu, male goats, goat cheese,George Weld of Egg (24:26)
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George Weld, Egg, breakfast, Southern traditions, diner crowds, George came to NY to write a dissertation, modernist poetry and visual text, Egg opened in Sparky's, artisanal ingredients, Portlandia, hipsters, sustainability, sourcing, organic, the science of cooking eggs, George also has a farm that supplies the restaurant,Challenges of Running a Successful NYC Restaurant (19:08)
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Brooklyn Slate, Kristy Hadeka, Sean Tice, Michael Harlan Turkell, The Food Seen, Slate valley, Vermont, quarries, third generation family quarry, slate cheese boards, slate lasts for about 200 years, boutique business, www.BrooklynSlate.com, subtle kitchen additions, engraving on slate, sandblasting,Kristy Hadeka & Sean Tice of Brooklyn Slate (14:07)
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Brooklyn Slate, Kristy Hadeka, Sean Tice, Michael Harlan Turkell, The Food Seen, Slate valley, Vermont, quarries, third generation family quarry, slate cheese boards, slate lasts for about 200 years, boutique business, www.BrooklynSlate.com, subtle kitchen additions, engraving on slate, sandblasting,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 05/30/2010 03:30PM
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This week on We Dig Plants Alice and Carmen speak to Donna Dorian about Russel Wright's incredible Manitoga estate and garden, the designer's only non-industrial project and a masterpiece of mid-century modernism.
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We Dig Plants Introduction: Russel Wright, Manitoga & Industrial Design (20:37)
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We Dig Plants, Alice Marcus Kreig, Carmen DeVito, Groundworks Inc, Heritage Radio Network, Roberta's, Town & Country, House Beautiful, Southern Accents, At Home in Tennessee, Donna Dorian, Russel Wright, Manitoga, industrial design in America, most widely sold dining ware in American history, the pieces were designed with biomorphic organic shapes, collectors pay a high price for rare pieces, devoted to simplicity, textiles with a mass production mentality, Manitoga means place of the great spirit, he thought about how food relate to the plate, form follows function, he used the natural resources, cleared trees and used existing stones, The Martha Grand Girls, collection of 6-10 white birch trees, planted so they look like they are dancing, endangered landscapes, hemlocks,Donna Dorian Talks About Manitoga & Russel Wright's Respect for Landscape (23:18)
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hemlock in regard to the landscape, industrialization, Russel Wright was very forward thinking, creating an ecological garden in the 1950's, respecting the landscape, picturesque, Levitown, Wright worked the opposite way of Levitown, Save America Grant, Manitoga, The Secret Room, Dragon Head, Annie Wright, built on a ledge that overlooks the quarry, outdoor rooms, there are numerous rooms throughout the property, Frank Llyod Wright, Imperial Hotel, Japanese design influence, Tokyo, green roof, cup garden, China, porcelain, mass production,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 10/29/2009 08:00PM
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Curtis B. Wayne talks with guest Jake Alspector about the new masters and what they can collectively do about taking responsibility for the entire process of creating the built environment
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New Masters & Change In The Industry (19:42)
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Jake Alspector, Curtis B. Wayne, master builders, Burning Down The House, breaking news!, October 1st broadcast with Henry Gifford, LEED certification process, Henry spoke about this here first, LEED buildings do not necessarily use less energy than the average building, essay by Nikoli Warsoff, New York Times, Charles Gwathmey, Peter Eisenman, The New York Five, Cooper Union, The W Hotel, windows without sill flashings, flashing used to be built into stone, Europeans have a very different system, detailing is worked out with the contractors and the tradespeople after the fact and done in the field, a green building can now have its LEED cerficiation revoked, John Hejduk, tastemakers not heroes, Richard Henderson, USGBC,Pratice Vs. Praxis (28:23)
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the legacy of Charles Gwanthley, golden handcuffs, white buildings, natural materials, Richard Meyer, the Eisenman house in Vermont had to be restored, the aesthetic goals outweighed everything else, constructability, pragmatics, this is not a new argument, flat arches, slanted arch bricks, these buildings have lasted 150+ years, there is a show at Cooper on the history of architectural drawing, 7th st between 4rd and 4th ave, Roberta's, temporary dirt track, low performance motorcycle race, color theory, the more natural light the lighter the color should be, how can we reclaim the title of master builders?, architecture is all inclusive, embracing that concept, modeling for the physical world, Colin Rowe, architect talk isolates us from the public, Terry Gilliam, Bob Siegel, The Smith House, a pristine pavilion that lives in a world without weather, practice vs. praxis, caring about materials lead to fabulous expressions of cast iron structure, Houghten Gallery, feng shui, calculus takes aggregations of data and systematizes it to come to a mean string of data, the mathematics of the ideal villa,Architects: Champions Of The World! (11:55)
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Fairway Market, http://www.fairwaymarket.com, quarry, sustainable materials, new masters, CDA, Jake Alspector, the format of the show is a conversation, no softball questions!, no expensive suits and ridiculous ties!, info@heritageradionetwork.com, Construction & Design Analytics,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
