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FOOD STORIES
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Program 07-11-25-B |
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How far did your food travel to get to you today? 100 miles? A thousand? Or just down the street. No matter where today's meal came from, there's a story behind it. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, food stories. New York chef Dan Barber faces a moral crisis in the form of a 750 pound boar named Boris. The Kitchen Sisters meet a Texan who wants to put a barbecue pit on the moon. And we'll take you to the wilds of upper New York State to catch live eels
SEGMENT 1:
Dan Barber is chef and owner of Blue Hill Restaurant in Manhattan and creative director of Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Tarrytown, New York. Anne Strainchamps prepared this story of how this organic farm with acres of greenhouses and free range livestock embodies Barber's belief in the imperative to rebuild a sense of connection with where our food comes from.
SEGMENT 2:
Novelist Jane Hamilton ("The Book of Ruth," "The Map of the World," "When Madeline Was Young") and her husband grow and sell apples on their farm in Wisconsin. Jane tells Jim Fleming what some of her orchard favorites have been over the years, and how an apple from a small, family orchard may differ from what you'll find at the supermarket. And Jane Siberry sings "Jesus Christ the Apple Tree." Also, The Kitchen Sisters (public radio producers Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva) talk with Anne Strainchamps and give her samples of the new season of "Hidden Kitchens."
SEGMENT 3:
TTBOOK Technical Director Caryl Owen files this report on Ray Turner, a.k.a. The Eel Man, and proprietor of Delaware Delicacies Smoke House. And, Steve Paulson talks with Judith Jones, legendary editor at Knopf. Her memoir is called "The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food." Jones tells Steve about discovering French cooking herself and her long friendship and partnership with Julia Child.
CD copies are available at 1-800-747-7444. Ask for program number 07-11-25-B.
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Books:
| Judith Jones,The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food (Knopf) |  |
| Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva, Hidden Kitchens (Rodale) | |
| Jane Hamilton, When Madeline Was Young (Doubleday) |
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- Music Notes from producer Anne Strainchamps:
A lot of the music for this hour comes from one of my favorite new CD’s, “Short Trip Home,” which is a collaboration of the virtuoso violinist Joshua Bell and bassist/composer Edgar Meyer, with Mike Marshall and Sam Bush on guitar and mandolin. We opened and closed the hour with the tune “In the Nick of Time.”The music we used in Boris’ story is a little bit of Beck (“Hotwax”, off his CD “Odelay”), a tune called “Raven Bill,” on Ray Bonneville’s CD, “Rough Luck,” a couple of tongue-in-cheek film noir tracks off of “The Crime Scene: Ultra Lounge, vol. 7”, on the Capitol label. And we ended that segment with a gorgeous track from the aforementioned Bell and Edgar album, “OK, All Right.” One more piece of music used in the Boris story: “Phonograph Blues,” a track on an obscure CD called “Bar Clogging in St. Louis,” by Rush McAllister. (Rivertown Records, St. Louis, MO.)
We closed the interview with Jane Hamilton with the, we thought, highly appropriate tune, “Jesus Christ the Apple Tree,” which is a 200-year old American folk song. We adore this version, as sung by the inimitable Jane Siberry, on her CD “Shushan the Palace (Hymns of the Earth)” (Sheeba Music, Inc.)
The Kitchen Sister’s segments contained music they mixed, and I don’t know what they used. We added a rousing bit at the end from Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ new CD, “Raising Sand.”
There was another little smidgen of Beck after the Eel Man, off of the same CD mentioned above. And, as I said, we closed the show with Joshua Bell and Edgar Meyer again – the same tune we heard at the beginning of the hour.
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Distribution dates: week of 11/25/2007 - hour B |
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