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First Aired - 03/07/2010 12:00PM
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Francis Schott of Stage Left Restaurant sparks a lively conversation on the prices of sustainable food. Also on the show, Marissa Sanchez & Mike Edison.
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The Main Course Introduction (14:17)
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Patrick Martins, Katy Keiffer, The Main Course, Cherryholmes, bluegrass music, art week in New York City, open galleries, Museum of Modern Art, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, e commerce meat industry, Omaha Steaks, pure breeds, custom slaughterhouse, does sustainable food truly cost more?, Pew Center, Whole Foods Market,A Discussion on Sustainable Food Prices (30:47)
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Stage Left Restaurant, Francis Schott, a good food cost is normally 28 percent, restaurant concepts sometimes determing the price point, sustainable business, The Rainbow Room, the start of modern cocktail culture, white linen tablecloth, 26 food points, candlelit, Heritage Foods USA, we have to be smarter to make things affordable, whole animal cooking, high end cuts should cost a lot, in-house skill, fat in dishes, food return cost, $4.24 a pound versus 95 cents a pound, good taste is revolutionary, the economy subsidizes non-sustainable food, no one person benefits, tiny profit margins, 3 pound porterhouse for two costs $45 and is $95 on the menu, Anne Saxelby's cheeses, www.restaurantguysradio.com, Doritos, the solution is not here yet, middle class families, Food Inc, the cost of going to the supermarket is less expensive than going to Burger King, obesity, diabetes, fast food tax, Heritage Foods raises antibiotic free pasture raised and genetically sound animals, institutionalized food, Obama administration, cynical mindset in the Republican party, partisan politics, FDA, Department of Agriculture, legislative action, Roberta's, Marissa Sanchez,Food Advertising & Brainwashing The Public Into Eating Poorly (33:09)
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Abraham Lincoln, externalizing cost, theft against the environment, dumping waste, EPA, Environmental Protection Agency, the consumer can make a difference by having good taste, food heritage as Americans, Orange New Jersey, Sanitary Bakery, advertising after World War II convinced people that Wonder bread was good, mass brainwashing, Velveeta, Spaghetti-O's, the good food palate got lost, food stands, Chipotle, anti intellectual movement, Sarah Palin, USDA conference, fresh kale, farmers market, harvest salad in the fall, dried cranberries and walnuts, how to braise a piece of cheap meat, rice and beans, there is a lot of fluff on the Food Network, Gordan Ramsey, Dan Barber, New Brunswick is one of the best urban revivals around, Stage Left employs more people per square foot than any other retail, Johnson & Johnson, real jobs for real people, restaurant business, real blue collar jobs, restaurantuers are very important, promoting farms, closing arguments, www.restaurantguysradio.com, you can make a difference in the community, local produce, local farmers, canning, pickling, Jersey tomatoes are the best in the world, how do you stay local 12 months a year?, Rick Bishop, Oaxaca Mexico, El Saber Del Sabor,MIKE EDISON IS BACK: Stories From Los Angeles (16:01)
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Mike Edison, Los Angeles, San Francisco, eating out in LA, Barney's Beanery, Bars Not Cars, you need to hire a driver in LA, weird subculture of sobriety, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Walt Disney Theater, I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World, Larry Flint, Wrestlemania, Roberta's, The Farmer's Almanac, Al Goldstein, Chris Benoit, The Fallen Angel, Satan worshiping,Celebrating Spring & New York City (34:27)
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lamb, sausage, beans, WWE, www.gothamgirls.com, velodrome, Momofuku, Newark, Oscars, Avatar, www.mikeedison.com, Back 40, jowl nuggets, the best festivals are in the spring, celebration of spring, free flowing rose wine, May 12th, Ides of March, Blades of Glory, John Heder, Cheech & Chong, Miami Vice, Al Sharpton, wrestling is all about surrealism, roller derby, Gotham Girls, Manhattan Mayhem, Hunter Collage, Saturday morning TV, Heritage Radio Network Calendar, traffic jams in LA, there's only reason to live in New York: you have to love it, we scrap too much for too little, the fighting attitude keeps New York unique, pork buns, racial riots, Howard Beach, Crown Heights, The Blackout of 1977, The Super Bowl, the greatest export America has is its culture, James Cameron, The Hurt Locker, A Serious Man, Hollywood employs a lot of people, Jay Leno, Governor Paterson, blind jokes, www.back40.com,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 12/06/2009 12:00PM
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The Main Course is now officially a two hour powerhouse of a show! This week, blogger and recession chef Erica De Mane talks about southern Italian cuisine. Mike Edison comes by on the second half of the show to remember the life of Andy Kaufman.
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The Main Course Introduction: Trash Talk! (15:54)
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Hearst Ranch, Patrick Martins, Katy Keiffer, The Main Course, William Neuman, Kate Manchester, Edible Santa Fe, William Nueman and Kate Manchester are on the trash talk list, Frank Reese, Bill Niman, old journalists should leave their post and go somewhere new, school lunch, doers not talkers, Bill Telepan, talking doesn't change the world, there are few of us who act, meat industry, cattle industry, 10,000 turkeys are not a threat, Al Franken, health care,Erica De Mane On Blogging and Southern Italian Cuisine (31:01)
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Erica De Mane, Keith Olberman, Worst Persons Ever, Scott Carlson, Kate Manchester, William Neuman, www.ericademane.com, Southern Italian Food, women holding fish, blogging, blogs, blog, love hate relationship, viscous cycle, flavor combination, food in terms of color, three posts a week, food blogs, Skinny Guinea, immigration, Lou Dobbs, reinventing Italian heritage, bloggers, the food blog business has been capitalized, http://www.behindtheburner.com, guanciale, pancetta, Recession Cooking, Italian food can be very cheap and healthy, fresh ingredients, a series of regional cuisines, Northern Africa, Morocco, vikings, anchovies, grains, vegetables, garlic, pork fat, hot chili, pantry items to mix with spaghetti, olive oil, pesto, pasta, white flour, eggs, fettuccine', Bologna, la cucina povera, poor cooking, traditions, Sicilian fish, cous cous, Brooklyn, only the Japanese have conciously maintained tradition deliberately,More With Erica De Mane (14:20)
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The Flavors Of Southern Italy, cookbook by Erica, she has dreams of food often, pine nuts, Pomegranate, wild rice, Cranberries, burrata, passion fruit, pulp, paw paw, Flott, oil packed, salt packed, anchovies, Sicily, calzones, wood burning oven, lightly stuffed, sauteed onions, truffles, ten ton veal chop, homemade pasta, labor intensive, cheese, ricotta, byproduct of cheese making, mozzarella, where is the imaginary line between north and south in Italy?, it's the first town south of you, Venice, Rome,Andy Kaufman With Mike Edison (8:45)
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Andy Kaufman, Mike Edison, Patrick Martins, Katy Keiffer, Ol Dirty Bastard, Wu Tang Clan, Barack Obama, Afganistan speech, American imperialism, Pakistan, Canada, taliban, professional wrestlers, Lou Albano, Andy Kaufman died 25 years ago, a new book of hate mail, Taxi, performance artist and comedian, The Great Gatsby, youtube, Tom Carvel, Apex Technology, Dorothy Hamilton, James Beard organization, Slow Food, local TV, Crazy Eddie, Nobody Beats The Wiz, Chiller Theater, WPIX, WWOR,More On Andy Kaufman (20:10)
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Jerry Lawler, antisemitism as a gimmick, back when wrestling was a regional business, David Letterman, butcher, WWE, Wrestlemania, Chris Jericho, Mickey Rourke, Rick Flair, Kaufman riled people up, he got fired from Saturday Night Live, nobody believed it when he died, Fridays, Larry David, Michael Richards, Latka, Bronson Pinchot, Carole Kane, Kristen Schaal, Flight Of The Conchords, Billie Jean King,Andy Kaufman & Jerry Lawler On David Letterman (15:06)
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drugs, Andy Kaufman used to sleep with the women he wrestled, Rachel McLish, Andy Kaufman, Jerry Lawler, why did Taxi get cancelled?, wrestling crossover, kayfabe, Man On The Moon, Bob Zmuda, dodgeball, Andy Kaufman could never wrestle as a good guy, called the fans stupid, Lenny Bruce, physical comedy, post beatnik social commentary, George Pataki pardoned him, he was found guilty of lewd behavior, John McCain is trying to pardon Jack Johnson, neuro-linguistic programming,Show Wrap Up: Mike Edison and the Space Liberation Army (9:39)
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I Walked With a Zombie, Mike Edison and the Space Liberation Army, pro methamphetamine Christmas message from Mike!, speed isn't the problem, LSD is an activity, drugs, www.MikeEdison.com, comics, videos, bong guitar, I Like To Hurt People, Dirty Dirty Dirty: The Unlikely Fall of Americas Porn Kings, magazine publishing, Hugh Hefner, queer, Playboy, Larry Flint, Al Goldstein, lost his money and his marbles, nuclear power scheme, Penthouse, Hearst Ranch, Jack Inslee, Wreck Tech, Anne Saxelby, Cutting The Curd,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 09/27/2009 01:30PM
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William Bryant Logan joins Patrick and Katy on this week’s Q Report to talk about William’s new documentary "Dirt" based on his book Dirt: the Ecstatic Skin of the Earth. Returning guest Mike Edison talks writing and wrestling.
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Q Report Introduction (6:29)
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sports, tree doctor William Bryant Logan, www.urbanarb.com, Arboriculture, Mike Edison, the underbelly of baking in NYC, Taylors Baker, Manhattan culture, neighborhood bums, The Broadway Butcher, donating to the homeless, know your locals,What is a Tree Doctor? (8:56)
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identifying, variety, oxygen, Pines, tree climbing, black locusts grow anywhere, trees an important component of the global ecosystem, calculate why there is not as much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, one reason is trees, if you leave a field open trees start growing, lousy land capture nitrogen, www.urbanarb.com, unexpected violent winds cause disasters that need cleaning up, tree collections, greatest weeping beaches in the North East, Rhode Island, why are trees necessary for survival?, outside of NYC farm fields don't exists as they once did, leaves fall and then birches and pines create a forest of oak trees maples and more, recent microburst come with storms that are atypical,How to Tell a Sick Tree from a Healthy Tree (0:59)
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changing color of leaves, dog pee, loss of leaves, massive quantities of salt, winter road salt as a killer,Pre and Post Ice-age Trees and the Future for Tree Populations (4:56)
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trees retreated after the ice age, a blue jay will be able to find a spot where they buried seeds a year later, chestnut tree blight, SUNY Cobleskill, circulation systems, native species, squirrels and blue jay birds are seed carriers, pollen,New Documentary: "Dirt" and Author of Oak: The Frame of Civilization (7:15)
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Vandana Shiva, Hans Jenny, Sundance Film Festival, showed Dirt many times, each showing sold out, movie Dirt debuting Spring-Summer 2010, photography, www.dirtthemovie.com,Mike Edison Segways from Dirt to Filth (12:35)
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long strange trip, misadventure, nothing pre-meditated, positive drugs, drugs that were meant to be used for work not recreation, Cherry Magazine, known for big busted American girls, Betty Paige, Mike Edison banged out 28 novels in two years, Acid, LSD, photographer Wolly Wang, sent to New Orleans for a story, drug laws in Japan are very harsh, no marijuana in Japan, locked up Paul McCartney for nine days, wrote an article in High Times on the worst marijuana ever in Japan, music editor at High Times Steve Bloom turned the story upside down, featuring strip club girls from New Orleans in turn helping the girls' careers, smoking top soil, I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot Porn Punk Rock Pro-Wrestling American Heroes and the Most Notorious Magazines, methamphetamine were designers for truck drivers, experimental drugs,Mike Edison, Publishing and Wrestling: How it all came together (11:03)
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NFL, new editor position, many different bylines, best things to hit people over the head with, rule breakers, cheating, dirty tricks, talcolm powder, roll of quarters, drama at the end of the match, evil Arab wrestlers, fire and burning, people still wonder if wrestling is fake, brain damage, veterans group for wrestlers, movie: The Wrestler, entertainers, popular culture, WWF is now the WWE, skill, many hours of practice, Stan Hanson, bone crushing sports, football and boxing, like show business wrestling is unforgiving, The legend: Vince McMan,New Project: American Library Association's Banned Book Week (6:34)
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banning books and challening books, from Darwin to Harry Potter, Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, Banned Book Party at The Word in Brooklyn Thursday October 1st at 7pm, recent trend of vampire books, Harry Potter books are being protested, obscenity is based on community standards, the Miller tests, community decides what standards should be, still are obsenity trials in America, questioning the source of creation, why we are still not teaching these stories in schools, www.MikeEdison.com, Liberty Sciene Center event at Roberta's October 13th at 7 pm,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
