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First Aired - 03/06/2011 03:30PM
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Cotton is the sole focus of this week's particularly fun and educational episode of We Dig Plants. Tune in to hear the good, bad and ugly about the history of cotton production in the world. Learn more about how the cotton gin revolutionized the world and why this crop really IS the "fabric of our lives". This episode was sponsored by S. Wallace Edwards & Sons. Learn more about their country ham and Virginia Tradition at www.SurryFarms.com
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We Dig Plants Introduction: Cotton (18:16)
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We Dig Plants, Alice Marcus Krieg, Carmen DeVito, S. Wallace Edwards & Sons, economic botany, anthropology, how humans use plants, plants and society, balance between needs and resources, Cosmography, Cotton, the fabric of our lives, hard to separate cotton and slavery, slaves developed a comb to speed up the process of picking cotton, bottleneck between field and factory, Eli Whitney, cotton gin, Upland county, cotton production, the South's white gold, textile mills, international slave trade, Liverpool, converted to textiles in British Mills, trade goods, cotton textile trade, Americana, cotton found its way to Africa, cotton was traded for more slaves,Work, Beauty & Everything In-Between (17:33)
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Alice's grandfather was a sharecropper and grew cotton, Eastern Georgia topsoil, the cost of t-shirts is rising because of rain problems in India, cotton is a heavily sprayed crop, fair trade, sustainable crops, decorative cotton, cotton seed fibers, fields look like snow, shrubs can get from 6 to 20 meters high, cotton bowls, cotton fibers make 40% of the worlds textiles, Southeast Asia, earliest written record of cotton, fragments of textiles dating to 3000 B.C., ancient civilizations had been spinning and weaving cotton, history of cotton, Ghandi, boycott on British goods, spinning wheel as symbol of self sufficiency, powdered cotton seeds, medicinal uses, cotton cocktail,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/03/2009 05:00PM
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Kate Manchester talks with Will Allen about the good food revolution and the potential of urban farming.
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Introduction & Show Summary (13:00)
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Monterey Bay Aquarium, fish populations, endangered species, Atlantic Flounder, Seafood Watch, salmon, Alaska, fisheries, fishermen, www.MontereyBayAquarium.org, www.CookingUpAStory.com, India, Claire Hope Cummings, Alternative Nobel Peace Prize, destructive development projects, genetics, National Farmers Market Week, Agriculture Secretary, USDA, www.FarmersMarketCoalition.org, community, www.care2.org, Will Allen, urban farming, Milwaukee, fresh food, Kellog Foundation, chickens, beehives, composting, methane gas, food waste into energy, urban agriculture,Interview with Will Allen: The Future of Urban Farming (13:14)
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Will used to be a professional athlete, Washingon DC, Rockville, MD, sharecropper, intensive urban farming, food deserts, community, youth groups, organic garden, multicultural, vertical process, soil, worms, compost, growing new soil, fast food, public housing project, grass fed meat, yellow perch, greenhouses, making food accessible, www.urbanchicken.com, movement to allow chickens across the country, Market Basket, CSA type program, city policies, heirloom turkeys, goats, ducks, chicken, distribution, retail store, diversified marketing scheme, multi-generational, social justice, broken food system, food born sicknesses, corn, soy beans, ramp up production, renewable energy, agro chemical conglomerate villains,Interview with Will Allen: Part 2 (9:55)
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we need to fundamentally change our food system, food born sicknesses, soy beans, ramp up production, renewable energy, agro chemical conglomerate villains, corn,Interview With Will Allen Part 3 (17:46)
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50 million new people would need to farm in urban areas to feed the country, less than 1% of food sold in cities is grown locally, job creation, environmental impact, stimulus money, Obama Administration, White House garden, Growing Food and Justice For All Initiative, Yes Magazine, GMO, geothermal, revolution, funding, www.growingpower.org,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 11/22/2009 01:15PM
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Food historian and friend of the show Andy Smith stops by to give us some context for the food we eat on Thanksgiving. Also on the show, Curtis B. Wayne.
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The Main Course Part Q: Introduction (10:00)
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Roberta's, The Main Course Part Q, Andy Smith, food historian, Curtis B. Wayne, Burning Down The House, Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine, Thanksgiving food, venison, turkey, foul, pigeon, pheasant, quail, swan, Native Americans, Edward Winslow, New England, a small footnote on a letter noted that it was the first Thanksgiving, there was no description of dinners until the 1780's, political climate, Sarah Josepha Hale, Northwood, pot pies, fall vegetables, America needed a fall holliday, The Civil War, the conformity of the foods we eat, wild rice, heritage breeds, Minesotta wild rice, green beans and gravy, cream of mushroom soup, marshmallows, egg whites and sugar, 1920's, corn syrup, holiday tradition,Wild Turkey! (10:00)
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food factoids, The New School, Drinking History, historical recipes, modern recipes, Esquire, whiskey and sugar, whiskey, turkey is the centerpiece for every description of a meal in America, pigs, the goal of Thanksgiving is to bring family together, the turkey feeds a lot of people, turkeys are smaller and faster now, big turkeys couldn't fly, wild turkeys used to be larger than domestic turkeys, enormous wild turkeys in Staten Island, rapid transit train, Patrick Martins, Naraganset breed, broad breasted white, Moses crossing the Red Sea was an original symbol idea for America, The Bald Eagle was chosen, the turkey would have been better, the turkey was an asain bird, guinne hens come from Africa, American Indians think Thanksgiving should be celebrated as a day of mourning, fish on Thanksgiving, oyster stuffing, New York Harbor was the largest oyster bed in the world in colonial and american times, Perry Rosso, wild turkeys were feared for extintion, first animal that was reintroduced to the wild sucessfully, more wild turkeys in America today than when Europeans first arrived, lyme disease, Eerie Canal, American's loved inexpensive foods, sweet potatos, Central South America, kasava, peanuts changed the economy, Washington Carver did not populize peanuts!,Peanuts, Potatos & Tomatos (13:20)
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Roberta's, peanut butter, Geroge Washington Carver, sweet potatos, peanuts as a sharecropper crop, one of the first African Americans to address Congress, peanut companies latch on to him, lard, Crisco, the Yam is an African plant that comes into America through slave trade, the sweet potato inside can be any color, Yams was slang for sweet potatos, Thanksgiving was a northern holiday, celebrated in some parts of the south, it wasn't a state holiday until the late 1900's, celebrated in the South before The Civil War, potatos started in South America then went to Europe then the United States, starch crops, food history, tomato blight, blight, rooftop garden, tomatos didn't become popular until the 1820's, The Spanish don't run into the tomato until 1518, first recipe was published in Italy in 1543, ketchup, catsup, corn, cornbread, beans, turducken, renaissance recipe,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
