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Program 03-05-04-B

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To The Best of Our Knowledge
from Wisconsin Public Radio

From Boston to Berkeley, people are going raw. Vegetarians, vegans and Atkins followers are old hat – the hottest trend in food is cool. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, why the raw food movement has people turning off their ovens and trumpeting the healing powers of uncooked food. Also, an inside look at the kosher food industry and globetrotting rabbis who make sure food is fit for faith. And a food artist says it's OK to play with your food.

SEGMENT 1:

Journalist Peggy Orenstein tells Jim Fleming about the raw food movement. She explains why they think food should never be heated above 118 degrees and describes the menu at Roxanne's, a fancy raw-food restaurant in California. Also, anthropologist Richard Wrangham tells Jim Fleming that he thinks cooking contributed to human evolution and is far older than most people think. Also, Ted Lee, co-founder of the specialty food catalog "boiledpeanuts," provides a few glimpses of culinary delights he sees in our future. Lee's remarks are scattered throughout the show.

 

SEGMENT 2:

Clare Crespo thinks you should play with your food. She's the author of a cookbook called "The Secret Life of Food." Crespo tells Anne Strainchamps about her banana hot dog and the family portrait she created from mashed potatoes. Here website is yummyfun.com. Take a peek at Clare's Food Fotos. Also, Joe Regenstein teaches food science at Cornell. He tells Steve Paulson about the rigorous inspections involved in getting a food accepted as kosher. He describes what the inspecting rabbis do all over the world.

SEGMENT 3:

Richard Schweid loves eels. He tells Steve Paulson that scientists know very little about their life cycle, but that their numbers seem to be declining. He describes various ways of cooking them and explains that the Japanese eat the most eels, but they're also big in England, Spain and Germany. Schweid's book is "Consider the Eel."

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Books:

• Clare Crespo, The Secret Life of Food (Hyperion Books for Children)
• Richard Schweid, Consider the Eel (UNC Press)

Music:

• -Everybody Eats When They Come to My House/ Cab Calloway
  
• -The Mexican Cactus/ Perry Kingsley/ "The Out Sound From Way In"/ Vanguard
  
• -Home Cookin'/ Jimmy Smith
  
• -Gypsy in Rio/ Perry Kingsley/ "The Out Sound From Way In"/ Vanguard
  
• -Mashed Potato Time/ Dee Dee Sharp
  
• -Tayere Odessa/ Brave Old World/ "Klezmer Music"/Flying Fish
  
• -Soul City/ Perry Kingsley/ "The Out Sound From Way In"/ Vanguard
  
• -Hey Good Lookin'/ Buckwheat Zydeco

Distribution dates:

week of 04/11/2004 - hour 2 week of 05/04/2003 - hour 2

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