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First Aired - 02/06/2013 11:00AM
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What is authentic when it comes to taste? Though an impossible topic to wrap your mind around in 30 minutes, author and NYU Associate Professor of Food Studies, Krishnendu Ray, discusses taste, authenticity and culture through the lens of immigrant cuisine and restaurants on a special episode of "Taste Matters" with Mitchell Davis. Tune in and get an introduction to some of the themes Krishnendu has explored in his career such as vernacular cosmopolitanism and the idea of food as fashion. This program was sponsored by Cain Vineyard & Winery.
"American food cultures are so inflected through immigrant prisms." [08:00]
"Indian restaurants in Manhattan have always been outward directed because there hasn't been a large Indian population until recently." [23:00]
--Krishnendu Ray on Taste Matters
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First Aired - 07/23/2009 08:00PM
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On this episode of Burning Down the House Curtis B. Wayne poses the question: Recycling; bonus or bogus? Guests: interlocutor Katie Keiffer and Michael Cockram, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture and Historic Preservation at Univ. of Oregon.
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Recycled Materials with Michael Cockram (18:31)
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Curtis B. Wayne, Michael Cockram, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture and Historic Preservation at the University of Oregon, The Italy Field School in Oira, University of Arkansas, Fay Jones, traditional building materials, sacho sona cavona, Ossola Valley, heavy timbers, laying stone, granite, reused materials, working in the vocabulary of the space, Iron Age, Celtic Tribes, Pre-Etruscans, University of Oregon, conduit, tensile qualities, regraded and stamped, reclaimed cheaper, used, The Center for the Advancement of Sustainable Living, mortar, architect, brick, Associazione Canova,Popular Recycled Materials in NYC (19:09)
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Brooklyn, Joe Pepe, M-Fine, Roberta's Restaurant, Hector Ducci, Gennaro Church-Brooks, ecobroker, salvage demolition areas, timber, seal and joist, reprocessing on the premises, furniture, southern pine, furniture grade wood, amber, steel can be softer than old wood, white woods cheaper, tongue and groove, Ecosystem of exclusively Yellow Pine, Yellow Pine Forests of Georgia, green builder, Home Depot, conduit, dumpster diving, salvaged wood, Build It Green NYC in Astoria, cast-iron radiators, Chinese new billet steel,The Green Movement and Green Organizations (11:45)
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sustainable, first to reclaim, the Green Movement Boom, reclaimed cool factor, Generation X and Y, Gotham Forrest, FSC, Forest Stewardship Council, meaningless certification, McMansion, wasteful dumpster, pressure treated wood is toxic, creasoak lumber, Katy Keiffer,Black Locusts and Moving Forward with Organizations (11:04)
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black locust is rot resistant, honey locust, the tree of Brooklyn, farm fence posts, industrial revolution, creasoak wood, hemp plant, pilings, the building materials vernacular, USGBC, United States Green Building Council, Henry Gifford, LEED buildings, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, BioHouse, Passive House, Build It Green NYC, M Fine Lumber, EcoBrooklyn.com, the weed tree,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 10/11/2009 01:15PM
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Patrick Martins hosts Megan Saxelby to talk about what it's like to be an educator in the charter school system, and what it takes to help inspire young children from Chicago's south side.
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The Q Report Introduction (5:48)
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Megan Saxelby, childhood education, Chicago, Franny's, www.frannysbrooklyn.com, www.bklarder.com, Megan teaches 10th grade English, South Side of Chicago, literature, reading, Illinois State standards, vocabulary and context, college readiness standards, grammar,The Charter School System (15:12)
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charter system, public schools tend to be more structured, charter schools are able accept private money and donations, they don't use test schools for acceptance, the admission process is like a lottery, magnet schools require testing, walking the line of being a friend and a teacher, entertaining students to inspire them, this charter school is 100% African American, middle class suburbs are way different, neighborhood violence, it becomes hard to come and learn when there are so many other distractions in life, poverty, for the most part the student body is very dedicated, standardized tests, cheating on tests, teachers worried about jobs were cheating to raise performance scores, there are other ways to measure success than test scores, visual and physical learning, artistic talent, translating A Tale of Two Cities into a rap song, circular freedom,Parental Involvement & The State of Education in America (12:12)
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parents need to be supportive for this to work, urban families, there hasn't always been a positive relationship between school and home, to run train means to school somebody, urban vernacular skills, is the national school system in good shape?, attention spans have gotten very short, cell phones, internet, tenure can be a bad thing in some situations, school greenhouse, students have been taught how to make food, Anne Saxelby, Saxelby Cheesemongers, obesity epidemic, diabetes,Brian Kenny Joins Patrick (13:13)
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Brian Kenny, e coli, New York Times, Anatomy of a Burger, making food cheaper, ground beef, some burgers have meat from 6 or 7 different suppliers to lower cost, unsafe products of all kinds are on the shelves, animal welfare, health and welfare, Hearst Ranch, public school lunch, Ann Cooper, Berklee School sustainable kitchen program, Rush Limbaugh, grass fed beef,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
