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First Aired - 06/09/2009 04:00PM
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Erin talks wine lists, the impact of the slumping economy on high-end wine sales, and whether cork is the best closure with Tom Gannon of Rothmann's Steakhouse.
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The Weekly Wine Recap (3:47)
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Brazil to improve quality of its wine, Barry Brothers and Rudd, Chardonnay has become an official variety in Rioja,Tom Gannon on the Rothmann's Wine List (11:20)
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Tom Gannon, Rothmann's Steakhouse, sommelier, wine list, career path, Atlantic Wine and Spirits, 800 selections on Rothmann's list, user friendly list, knowledgeable servers, mix of casual and formal, decant on request, 2 star service, fine dining restaurants out of vogue?, more restaurants have serious wine programs, La Grenouille, sharpening palates, sommelier snobbery, effects of economy on Rothmann's, vintage port sales down, less consumer extravagance, average bottle cost down, Tom is taking on cheaper wines,Closures: The Future of Cork (12:30)
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Tom's playwright project, restaurant world as theatre, people dine out in part for theatrical element, restaurant good fodder for Tom's playwriting, www.entastewineblog.blogspot.com, 30 international sommeliers writing about wines, not enough quality cork made in the world, Wolf Blass, blind Riesling tasting, everyone chose the wine with cork, cork itself changes character of wine, closure is not supposed to affect wine,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 03/14/2013 01:30PM
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Today on this week's GrowNYC update, Erin Fairbanks talks with Liz Carollo of NYC's Green Markets. Liz talks about the Green Market happenings and events that are soon to come. Spring is just around the corner so tune to the update for everything you need to know about getting that garden started!
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First Aired - 05/31/2009 12:00PM
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Patrick Martins, Katy Keiffer and Guest Mark Marabella speak with Gene Mayer, Vice President of Sales for Baldor Food, George Faison of Debragga and Steve Shimoler Chef-owner Crop Restaurant
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Introduction and Show Summary with Patrick Martins, Katy Keiffer and guest Mark Marabella (6:21)
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Rhode Island, Distribution, New Press, Tasting Table NYC, New York Times, NYT Diner's Journal,Distribution with Gene Mayer, Vice President of Sales for Baldor Food (9:06)
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Baldor Food and local agriculture, Catskills, Long Island, Baldor founded 1991, Large fresh fruit and vegetable foodservice company, corporate dining, local produce, Union Square Market, where growers go, box in box out, move over 1,700 items a week, top 50 unique specialty items make up a third of business, same day deliveries in NY, 150 trucks, biggest challenge is freshness, mother nature, Distribution, Farmers, history, schools, restaurants, freshness, market, buying, Sales, marketing, contracts, calendar,Seasonality and Changing Consumer Food Habits with Gene Mayer and Baldor Food (10:14)
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communication between distributors and producers, local and sustainable movement, contract buying with farmers, historic purchases plan harvests, some farmers plan the year in advance with Baldor, planning is important for partnership, food habits with consumers, change of historic demand, moving towards traditional, taste and color reign supreme, making the best of what's available, helping farmers get product to market, supply and demand, supporting community, supermarket chains, distribution centers, harder to serve, 85 percent of grown food is pre-spoken for, International farming, long-distance growing relationships, increase, growers, customers, transportation, costs, Grocery,George Faison, Distributor of Debragga and Getting Good Food to the Market (10:04)
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Introducing New York to good food, first exchanges with local farmers, fois gras, sauces to mask bad foods, great raw ingredients can be simply prepared, less is more, a backwards movement, labor dictates price, dry-aged beef, sold D'Artagnan to partner in 2004, taking it to the next level, Cryo-vac, wet-age, can't dry-age mediocre beef, healthy animals lead to better marbling and flavor, Distribution, quality, finishing, aging, change, nirvana,Hunting with George Faison (7:46)
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seasonal hunting, summer mushroom season, cannot sell what is hunted, market hunting created extinction of ducks, deer, wild turkeys, new laws created in 1930's by Theodore Roosevelt to no longer allows commercial exchange of wildlife, beauty of the hunt is the free chase, Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, animal finishing, grass-fed, grain-fed,Seafood and Sustainable Choices with Stephanie Faisen (5:49)
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Seafood Choices Alliance, what fish should we be eating?, Blue Ocean Institute, NYC was once caviar capital, www.Debragga.com, restaurants, foodservice, Sustainability, seafood,Virtual Marketplace with Steve Shimoler Chef-owner Crop Restaurant of Cleveland (9:13)
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local crop project, consortium of farmers and restaurants with Sysco, virtual marketplace, new ordering system, started www.chefexpress.com, access to ingredients, solution to distribution network, demand creates higher value for farmers' products, build it and they will come, Distribution, foodservice, Institutions, groceries, national, infrastructure, technology, communication, Farmers, customers, necessities, suppliers, Sysco,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
