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First Aired - 10/06/2009 04:00PM
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On this week's At the Root of It, Erin interviews Joe Macari of Macari Vineyards in the North Fork of Long Island. Joe talks about the upcoming harvest season, the varietals that thrive in Long Island, and his ancillary beekeeping projects.
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The Weekly Wine Recap (3:05)
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Chateau de Beaucastel, Northern Rhone, Southern Rhone, Betts and Scholl sold, www.bundeskanzlerin.de, Joe Macari, Macari Vineyards, North Fork Long Island,Joe Macari Introduces Macari Vineyards (11:30)
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Joe Macari, Macari Vineyards, viticulture, Long Island wineries, grape harvest season, Sauvignon Blanc, ripeness levels of grapes, vineyard ownership, Joe's career path, finding a vineyard sight, vintage variation in Long Island, food wines, low alcohol, short season, having animals on the farm and using their manure in soil, enlivening soil, conventional grape cultivation, silica increases photosynthesis on the grape, silica: microscopic quartz crytals magnify light, 100% biodynamic spray, Macari vineyards carry on conventional cultivation practices, sourcing farm-to-table, 200 acres of Macari's 400 acre farm was bought to build cluster housing but Joe's parents converted it into a vineyard instead, diversity of land, differences in sun exposure and wind due to sloping topography, cover-cropping, terroir, www.macariwines.com, Stephen Mudd surveys the land, composting, biodynamic specialists: Alan York Nicolas Joly,Long Island's Finest Varietals (11:20)
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viticulture, Joe Macari, winemaking, dream of purchasing and operating a vineyard, which grapes thrive in Long Island environment?, Merlot, Chardonnay, Shiraz, predators threatening vines, deer love sweetness of Shiraz grapes, Malbec thrives on Long Island as well, Cabernet Franc, wine has no borders, Macari's Chief Winemaker, ice wine, high-acidity whites, Joe's beekeeping projects, maintaining bee population levels, the current bee crisis, bee crisis a good litmus test for health of environment,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 09/21/2010 03:00PM
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This week on The Food Seen Michael goes on the road to Star Chef's International Chef's Congress, a meeting of the minds for culinary masters to show off their most creative and innovative techniques and ideas. Michael speaks to Jordan Kahn about cooking with colors, playing on our preconceptions about what food should look like and exploring how the visual affects our taste. Michael also speaks to Gabriel Bremer about cooking basics versus new school technology and how art affects both. Alex Stupak also talks about using PVC pipe to make pastries, and Kristen Murray talks about inspiration. This episode was sponsored by Heritage Foods USA.
Photo: The 5th annual Starchefs International Culinary Congress
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The Food Seen Introduction: On the road at Starchefs ICC (9:04)
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The Food Seen, Michael Harlan Turkell, offsite recording, Starchefs 2010 ICC, Jordan Kahn, Red Medicine, pastry, color class, food coloring, psychology, in 1970 there was a food coloring study, crystal clear gravy, palate vs palette, retaining purity through color,More with Jordan Kahn (12:43)
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Synesthesia, numbers as colors, Chopin, so literally in his playing that you can emote, translates into colors, color associations with food, Jordan Kahn,Alex Stupak of WD-50 (8:20)
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Alex Stupak, molecular gastronomy, WD-50, pastries, industrial silica, PVC piping to make certain dessert elements, ghetto mold making, art theory, moderisn to post modernism, craziest flavor of ice cream Alex can serve at WD-50 is vanilla,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 01/05/2010 04:00PM
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Erin Fitzpatrick digs into an earthy conversation with biodynamic farmer Stephen Storch on a cosmic edition of At The Root Of It - PART 2
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At The Root Of It Introduction: Composting (12:58)
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Erin Fitzpatrick, At The Root Of It, Natural Science Organics, biodynamic farming, radionics, Stephen Storch, terroir development, artificial fertilizer, herbicide, compost, composting, homeopathy, dilution, the smallest entity makes the greatest change, microbial life, compost development, manure, Sicilian goats, byproducts, there is a cost involved with compost, the benefit far outweighs the cost, economics, chemicals aren't cheap, growth is greater while utilizing natural methods, artificial nitrogen, why does mint grow wildly?, weeds, dandelion, if people ate dandelion 90% of our health problems would disappear, latex, artificial fertilizers, field sprays, cosmic calcium, herbal medicine, potassium, sulfur, genesis compound,Biodynamics: Vineyard Balance (14:03)
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soil enrichment, soil biology, nitrogen, protein, amino acids, all made from nitrogen, nitrogen is where we get our consciousness from, artificial fertilizers diminish the root systems, atrophy, 500 field spray develops a fine deep root system, minerals give wine its complexity, the trick is to make your wine in the vineyards, insects, bees, butterflies, creatures add balance, air circulation, cosmic energy, silica, climate change, for the past ten years we were in a heavy drought cycle, root growth, grape vines, terroir, the plant needs to have intimate contact with the soil, Long Island, Nova Scotia, the fertility of Long Island allowed Manhattan and Brooklyn to become industrial centers, The Vortex Brewer, structured water, photographs of ice crystals, www.naturalscienceorganics.com, Jack Inslee, Hearst Ranch,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
