Taproots

Tap Roots

Hosted by: Marla Camp

Produced by: Jack Inslee

Engineered by: Nat Weiner

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Tap Roots explores America's local food movement and connects local family farmers, chefs, and “foodies” together, while entertaining and educating listeners on the importance of eating seasonally. Host Marla Camp is the publisher of Edible Austin magazine (http://www.edibleaustin.com), a member of Edible Communities. She is also a big fan of root vegetables. Turnip art courtesy of cartoonist Sam Hurt.

Recent Episodes

Tap Roots - Episode 3 - Anne Isham, Alain Braux & Carol Anne Sayle

Tap Roots - Episode 2 - Anne Lappe & Louisa Shafia

Tap Roots - Episode 1 - Texas BBQ with Elizabeth Engelhardt, Jonathan Pace, Pat Mares & Ronnie Vinikoff

Previous episodes


Episodes:
Tap Roots - Episode 3 - Anne Isham, Alain Braux & Carol Anne Sayle
First Aired - 05/03/2010 05:00PM

This week on Taproots, Marla spoke with Anne Isham, author of How to Eat. She also had Alain Braux, author of How to Lower Your Cholesterol with French Gourmet Food & Carol Anne Sayle.

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Intro (2:23)

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Marla Camp, Hearst Ranch, Edible Austin,

Anne Isham, Author of Eat More Chocolate and Lose Weight Anyway (20:52)

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optimal health, Texas Association of Fine Chocolate, Eat More Chocolate Lose Weight Anyway, Anne has been a foodie all her life, chocolate makes you younger smarter happier and healthier, scientific proof as to the benefits of chocolate, running marathons, race walking, chocolate's addictive properties, enhance mental dexterity response time and focus, reduces incidents of heart and artery disease, cocoa butter is made of four different stearic acids, triglycerides, chocolate does NOT cause acne, vegans eat sweets!, chocolate is the best way of conveying love, Choco-monkey Chocolate Frequency Indulgence Guide, something between a Pac-Man and a Mayan glyph, chocolatier, Cherry Bomb for Mom,

Downtown on the Farm with Carol Ann (11:57)

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strawberries, squash, Cherokee Purples, grains, chards, kale, gentle rain, nothing like picking a fresh strawberry, if you can smell the strawberries you know they're going to be sweet, Deborah Madison, Season Fruit Deserts, tasting with your eyes, fresh organic and local, REALLY fresh produce, harvesting during market, the Marias, the customers are in ecstasy, Carol Anne wants you to KNOW it was just picked, customers do very little with the produce, if the food is fresh you don't have to do much, try unusual things, baby beans, speckled lettuce, Carol Ann Sayle,

Alain Braux, Author of How to Lower Your Cholesterol with French Gourmet Food (22:34)

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People's Pharmacy, Alain Braux, Alain was eating American!, regular annual checkup, drinking a lot of coffee, eating at odd hours, eating on the run, high stress, lowering cholesterol 35 points without drugs, what are the two kinds of cholesterol?, what is cholesterol?, request all the numbers, LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, good cholesterol and bad cholesterol, you don't want to LITTLE cholesterol, the French Philosophy on food, healing with food, Alain was a chef for 40 years, dishes that are beautiful AND taste great, keep the juices flavors and steam together, quick broiling method, don't use commercially created oils, using toxins to make oils clear, overheating and reheating, not changing the oil in friers is BAD!, carcinogenic properties of grilling and frying, killing vitamins and minerals, microwaving is the WORST, outlawing microwave ovens, find the book on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, downloadable ebook, gluten free French gourmet food, desert can be good without flour!,

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Tap Roots - Episode 2 - Anna Lappe & Louisa Shafia
First Aired - 04/05/2010 05:00PM

Marla Camp is in studio for the first time! She's joined by Anna Lappe & Louisa Shafia who talk about ways to improve our food system and how eating responsibly can change the world.

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Tap Roots Introduction (3:12)

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Marla Camp, Edible Austin, Tap Roots, Heritage Radio Network, marla@edibleaustin.com,

Louisa Shafia of Lucid Food (16:40)

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Louisa Shafia, Lucid Food, cookbooks, food photography, http://www.lucidfood.com/, shoping to support local farmers, transparency, purity in food, traceability, from farm to table, no chemicals, garlic ramps, fiddle head ferns, seasonality, shopping locally, sensuality of food, making food with bright colors and bold tastes, using technology to connect, technology has distracted us from community, share meals with people, pot luck dinners, farmers markets, rhubarb and pistachios over thick yogurt, local honey, beekeeping is now legal in New York City, urban beekeeping group, rose water extract, short story about making pizza, Roberta's, potatoes on pizza, watercress, book giveaways after the show, email marla@edibleaustin.com and give some eco tips to receive a free book,

Anna Lappe, Author of "Diet for a Hot Planet" (18:56)

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Heritage Radio Network, Anna Lappe, Diet For A Hot Planet, connection between conventional food production and global warming, move over hummer say hello to hamburger, emissions, artificial soil fertility, addiction to fossil fuels through synthetic fertilizer, feedlots, drug diet, short sighted idea on food production, hurting the economy, ruined rural communities, health care costs, short sighted in terms of the climate, Myth Informed: Answering The Critics, emphasis on bio-technology solutions, can sustainable agriculture feed the world, Diet For A Small Planet, Michael Pollan, Marion Nestle, Frances Moore Lappe, hunger scare, the industrial food system is the root of so much hunger in the world, support small scale farmers, we need more resilient farms, sustainable farming methods are creating healthy soils, healthy soils produce more varied and resilient crops, this movement is not elitist, fast food industrial diets, 1 in 3 kids born in this country will develop diabetes at some point in their lifetime, palm oil, one of the most widely traded vegetable oils in the world, most of the worlds palm oil comes from Indonesia and Malaysia, mass plantations on former carbon rich lands, these two countries are among the worlds leading emitters of greenhouse gasses, it's not a doom and gloom book, the next wave of food documentaries will be about soil, the fundamental base of a healthy farm is healthy soil, how do you feed your soil?, Rodale Institute, organic farms, food sovereignty, our ability to have power over our own food, La Via Campesina, 600 people from 90 different countries,

What We Can Do? A Conversation with Louisa and Anna (21:07)

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Hearst Ranch, what can we do?, practical tips and guidelines, eco friendly food shopping, shop local, support small farmers, traceability, some small farmers cannot afford organic certification, USDA is under pressure from lobbyists, what do these standards mean?, USDA Organic Certification, you have to go beyond your plate, be active, speak up, organic certification is not written in stone, pay attention to the organic label, look at it closely, wait for appropriate seasons, bananas, the industry has a bad history in terms of labor and pesticide practices, cooked squash, baby alternative to bananas, baked sweet potatoes, serve seasonal produce, it's more fun to shop with the seasons, sorrel, pear crisp with lavender cream, be flexible while shopping, recipes are not biblical, choose eco friendly fish, fish farming, aqua culture setups, Monterey Bay Aquarium, mercury, safe seafood list, www.montereybayaquarium.org, ask questions at restaurants, know your source, eat less meat, when you do eat meat buy responsibly, grass fed beef, no hormones or additives, we eat more meat than we need to in the US, use less meat in your diet, choose good quality meats, animal welfare concerns, Marion Nestle, Michael Pollan, Alice Waters, lowering your carbon food print, ask the story behind the food, Crop to Cup, imported coffee, support local roasters, urban farms in Austin, national lobby groups, improving policy, Small Planet Fund, www.smallplanetfund.org, http://www.takeabite.cc/,

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