Krcu's A Harte Appetite
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- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:18:19
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Synopsis
KRCU's Tom Harte shares a few thoughts on food and shares recipes. Listen to archived episodes and get recipes at http://krcu.org/topic/harte-appetite.
Episodes
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A Harte Appetite: Try Cutting the Mustard
13/05/2024 Duration: 01minThe mustard plant is fully deserving of accolades. For centuries its been used as a food, flavoring and folk remedy. In fact it was so important as a medicinal herb to the ancient Greeks that they credited their god of medicine for its creation.
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A Harte Appetite: Cakes
06/05/2024 Duration: 01minRose Levy Beranbaum, in her book, “The Pie and Pastry Bible,” a volume which I’ve read religiously, says, “There are two kinds of people: cake people and pie people.”
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A Harte Appetite: Spinach
29/04/2024 Duration: 01minA 3.5 ounce serving of spinach contains more iron than the same sized hamburger patty. Not bad for a food that is 91% water.
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A Harte Appetite: Feta Cheese
22/04/2024 Duration: 01minFeta cheese -- sometimes referred to as the princess of cheeses -- is every bit as admirable as any other Greek invention, and it is surely just as ancient. It is likely as old as Greece itself.
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A Harte Appetite: Delmonico's
15/04/2024 Duration: 01minDelmonico's was the first American restaurant to have a printed menu, the first to offer a separate wine list, the first to have tablecloths, the first to offer a private dining room and the first to provide an orchestra for background music.
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A Harte Appetite: Carrots - The World's Second Most Popular Vegetable
08/04/2024 Duration: 01minNo wonder the carrot is the second most popular vegetable in the world after the potato—not bad for a plant which, according to the Oxford Companion to Food, “had an unpromising origin.” It is, after all, merely a refined version of a common weed—Queen Anne’s lace.
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A Harte Appetite: Oh Crêpe!
01/04/2024 Duration: 01minThe French think they're superior to us when it comes to clothing, wine, and food -- not to mention romance! And, admittedly, they do have a way with each; and perhaps nowhere is French sophistication more evident -- at least in the culinary world -- when it comes to pancakes.
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A Harte Appetite: The Versatile Springform Pan
25/03/2024 Duration: 01minFrom a culinary perspective, every season is joyous, but for me it’s always spring, at least in my kitchen. That’s because my favorite item of kitchenware is the springform pan. The function of the pan is to make it possible to take out of the pan a cake which is too fragile to trust to the conventional method of turning it upside down and keeping your fingers crossed that it comes out in one piece.
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A Harte Appetite: All Tied Up with Pretzels
18/03/2024 Duration: 01minPretzels, some historians contend, may be the oldest snack food known to humankind.
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A Harte Appetite: The Truth About Corned Beef and Cabbage
11/03/2024 Duration: 01minContrary to popular belief, corned beef and cabbage is not the national dish of Ireland. You won’t find it on menus there except in places where there is a lot of tourist traffic. Some food historians even go so far as to question whether the dish is actually Irish at all.