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Food Survival Techniques; Eating Insects; Things Cooks Love
Discover what cooks love, cook up veggies with bad reps and learn how eating bugs can solve the meat-consumption problem. Meet a chef who raises poussin, get food tips for surviving in the wilderness and learn how Southern iced tea became popular in restaurants across America. Plus, hear about White Lily flour and get a fresh Market Report.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1h 0m ListenMarie Simmons tells us which kitchen items cooks love, while Jack Bishop cooks up vegetables with bad reputations. Professor Arnold van Huis advocates eating bugs as a way to solve the meat-consumption problem, chef Douglas Keane raises flavorful poussin and Gary L. Benton offers food tips for surviving the wilderness. Plus, Martha Hall Foose brews Southern sweet tea, food scientist Shirley Corriher talks about White Lily flour and Laura Avery has a fresh Market Report.
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8 storiesThe Market Report
Summer is an ideal time to plant your garden. Laura Avery chats with Logan Williams of Hayground Organic Gardening , who suggests Czechoslovakian and Polish tomatoes that are designed to fruit in November. It's still not too late to plant big beef tomatoes now.
Read the story7 minThings Cooks Love
Author Marie Simmons turns us on to new kitchen tools in Sur la Table 's Things Cooks Love : Implements, Ingredients, Recipes. She recommends knives, mortar and pestle and the granny fork.
Read the story7 minVeggies
Jack Bishop of America's Test Kitchen shares ideas for cooking under-appreciated vegetables, such as broccoli and zucchini. He recommends roasting them! The secret to roasting broccoli is to add 1/4 teaspoon of sugar.
Read the story7 minBugs as Meat
Researcher Arnold van Huis , a Professor of Tropical Entomology at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, advocates eating insects as an alternative to consuming meat. He says there are some 1,400 - 2,000 species of edible bugs which can be used as a source of protein.
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Chef Douglas Keane raises a special breed of poussin, or Cornish game hen, for his Cyrus restaurant in Healdsburg, California. Cyrus has a two-Michelin stars rating and has been named one of Gourmet Magazine 's Top 50 Restaurants in America. Cyrus 29 North Street Healdsburg, CA 95448 707-433-3311 Music break: Bird Priest by Ratatat
Read the story6 minWilderness Survival Tips
Survival expert Gary L. Benton gives helpful tips on what to do when lost or stranded during a camping trip or skiing adventure. A retired United States Air Force Senior Master Sergeant, Benton has taught parachuting techniques and survival skills to Air Force aircrew members.
Read the story8 minSweet Tea and Southern Cuisine
Chef Martha Hall Foose talks about the South's sweet tea, and how iced tea became popular across America and Southern cuisine. Her book is titled Screen Doors and Sweet Tea : Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook.
Read the story7 minWhite Lily Flour
Food scientist and baker Shirley Corriher talks about White Lily flour, low protein flour and Southern baking. The White Lily flour plant in Knoxville, Tennessee recently closed and has been relocated to the Midwest.
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