food

Jane's Ice Cream

Joe Donahue — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:40:00 +0000

Call it tradition, one again we ease into the Spring/Summer sweet treat season by having Jane’s Ice Cream join us on the air to share their signature product with us.

Jane's Ice Cream was founded by sisters Amy and Jane Keller and Bob Guidubaldi in 1985 in Phoenicia, NY.

Amy Keller and Bob Guidobaldi join us now to tell how business has been this year and – of course – to allow us to taste some of their fantastic flavors.

Nutrition, Not Just Exercise, Key To Getting In Summer Shape

Michael Masciadrelli — Tue, 07 May 2013 02:00:00 +0000

With the warmer weather here, more people are heading outdoors and striving to be in better shape and lose weight -- but it’s not all about being active. As WAMC’s Michael Masciadrelli reports, it’s all about paying more attention to proper nutrition.

Vox Pop : Food and Cooking : 5/1/13

Patrick Donges — Wed, 01 May 2013 19:00:00 +0000

We’re talking about a subject close to all of our hearts and stomachs today, food, and specifically how to prepare food in tasty and exciting ways.

"Cooked" by Michael Pollan

Joe Donahue — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:10:00 +0000

Michael Pollan’s new book, Cooked, follows the twists and turns of Pollan’s education in the kitchen. Organizing his journey around the four classical elements —fire, water, air, and earth—Pollan apprentices himself to a series of culinary experts to discover how these elements can transform the stuff of nature into delicious things to eat and drink.

Rachael Ray

Joe Donahue — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:10:00 +0000

Rachel Ray is a nationally syndicated host of the Rachael Ray Show as well as a food network superstar. She is best known for her 30 minute meals, her many cookbooks, magazine and other television programs.

Rachael Ray has become a staple of both cable and syndicated television it all began at WRGB in Schenectady, New York when she started the 30 minute meal segment more than a decade ago she would regularly appear here in WAMC and cook for us.

She would come in and make burgers, jambalaya and chicken stirfry. During one program, a food network executive was listening, heard her and a few weeks later she went on to sign a huge contract with the food network and later get a syndicated talk show with Oprah Winfrey's company.

Two years after her great success, E! entertainment television did an E True Hollywood Story on Rachael and asked me if I would take part. It was the last time I actually saw Rachael Ray. This past weekend, I got to catch up with her while she's on spring break from her show and spending time in this region, a region she calls home. We reminisced about our time on the radio and of course about the E True Hollywood Story.

"Kosher: Private Regulation in the Age of Industrial Food" by Timothy D. Lytton

Joe Donahue — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:12:00 +0000

The $12-billion-a-year kosher food industry is the subject of Albany Law School Professor Timothy Lytton’s latest book, Kosher: Private Regulation in the Age of Industrial Food .

Professor Lytton examines the kosher industry as a model of private sector regulation in the midst of growing public concern over the government’s ability to regulate the food industry.

Listener Essay - Winter Veggies

Wally Nichols — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:50:00 +0000

Wally Nichols is a horse farmer in Kerhonkson, NY. He has a new book out, Dear Wally... a collection of 50 snarky advice columns.

"Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us" by Michael Moss

Joe Donahue — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:12:00 +0000

Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter, Michael Moss, from The New York Times joins us to tell the explosive story of the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic.

Moss reveals how companies use Salt, Sugar, and Fat to addict us and, more important, how we can fight back.

"Poor Man's Feast" by Elissa Altman

Joe Donahue — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:10:00 +0000

Elissa Altman is a James Beard Award-winning writer whose new book marries wit to warmth, and flavor to passion. Born and raised in New York to a food-phobic mother and food-fanatical father, Elissa was trained early on that fancy is always best. In fact, she devoted her life to all things gastronomical.

But love does strange things to people, and when Elissa met Susan — a small-town Connecticut Yankee with a devotion to simple living — it would change Elissa's relationship with food, and the people who taught her about it, forever. Her new book, Poor Man's Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking, is a universal tale of finding sustenance and peace in a world of excess and inauthenticity, and shows us how all our stories are inextricably bound up with what, and how, we feed ourselves and those we love.

Cooking classes and kitchen gadgets with Different Drummer's Kitchen Company

Joe Donahue — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:35:00 +0000

Different Drummer’s Kitchen Company has three locations in our listening area: Albany, NY and Lenox and Northampton, MA.

In addition to providing a resource for home cooks and professional chefs to acquire equipment for their culinary tasks, the Albany and Northampton locations also host cooking classes in a number of specialties including Cake Decorating, Beginning Sushi, and Homemade Pasta.

Virginia Rhinehart, the Cooking School Coordinator from Different Drummer’s Kitchen in Albany and she joins us now to tell us more about Different Drummer’s Kitchen cooking school and to tell us about some time saving kitchen gadgets.