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| Program 06-04-09-B | 
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Chef Homaro Cantu wants you to play with your food. After all, he does - with creations like prosciutto cotton candy, Kalamata olive ice-shavings and edible menus. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, a visit to the kitchen of Homaro Cantu at Moto, in Chicago, Illinois. Also, we meet another brave soul, traveling the culinary highway - we'll spend time with a self-proclaimed Gastronaut, for a trip down the weird, wild, and outrageous byways of food.
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SEGMENT 1:
Stefan Gates is the author of and a self-described "Gastronaut" – someone who'll stop at nothing to experience a transcendent moment through food, no matter how bizarre. Gates tells Steve Paulson how to stage a backyard barbecue that takes about a week and feeds 60 and what to serve at an orgy. TTBOOK Technical Director Caryl Owen visits with chef Homaro Cantu at his genre-bending, high-tech Chicago restaurant called Moto. One of his recipes is on our Website.
SEGMENT 2:
Marcia Mehran was born in Tehran but grew up in Argentina and is now married to an Irishman. She's written a novel called "Pomegranate Soup." She tells Anne Strainchamps how her own life is reflected in the book and what she loves about Iranian cuisine. Also, Harold McGee wrote "On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen." He recently visited the kitchen of L'Etoile Restaurant in Madison, Wisconsin with Anne Strainchamps to provide a guided tour of food science while chef Tory Miller did the cooking.
SEGMENT 3:
Ryan Nerz is a competitive eating Emcee and the author of "Eat this Book." He talks with Steve Paulson about competitive eating as a bona fide sport modeled on the world wrestling federation. Nerz describes some of the champions, their training techniques, and eating accomplishments.
CD copies are available at 1-800-747-7444. Ask for program number 06-04-09-A.
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Books:
- Stefan Gates, Gastronaut:
adventures in food for the romantic, the foolhardy, and the brave
(Harvest Books; ISBN: 0156030977)
- Marsha Mehran, Pomegranate Soup (Random House; ISBN: 1400062411)
- Harold McGee, On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen (Scribner; ISBN: 0684800012)
- Ryan Nerz, Eat This Book (St. Martin's;
ISBN: 0312339682)
Websites:
Music:
- -Baccanale from "Samson eet
Dalila" by Camille Saint-Seans/L'Opera
Bastille/ Emi Classics - -Pioneers of the Stars/ Perrey
Kingsley/ "The Out
Sound from Way In!"/ Vanguard -Del Meeravad Ze Dastuam/Dastan Ensemble with Shahram Nazeri/ "Through Eternity"/ Sounds True - -Green Onions/ Booker T. & the MG's/ Rock Instrumental Classics Volume 4: Soul/ Rhino
- -Shuck it Up/ Medeski Martin & Wood/ "It's a Jungle in Here"/ GramaVision
Distribution dates:
| week of 05/13/2007
- hour 2 week of 04/09/2006 - hour 2 |
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