B-Side's Tamara Keith cooks up a pot
of her mom's vegetarian lentil soup and explores
food and our relationship to food.
Liner Notes
"The
Gastronauts" Jody Avirgan:
The Gastronauts are a group
of adventurous eaters who like to push their culinary limits
and explore the most exotic food New York City has to offer.
Just what makes these guys hop the subway to seek out giant
Nigerian snails, lamb eyeballs and live, squirming octopus?
We'll find out.
"Take me Out...to Dinner" Donovan Keith:
Donovan Keith is on a strict diet. His food intake is carefully
planned and regulated. He's even signed up with a personal trainer
at the local gym. But he's not, trying to lose weight: he's
trying to put on 30 pounds of muscle for a regional theater
production of Take Me Out.
"Citrus Freeze Gets Personal" Sasha Khokha:
Lemons and oranges have become pricey delicacies after a cold
snap destroyed millions of dollars of California citrus this
winter. The cold spell didn't just affect those of us that buy
the fruit, it also cost thousands of farmworkers their jobs,
and devastated small towns that rely on citrus as their main
industry. Sasha Khokha brings us he story of one of those towns,
the town were her boyfriend grew up. See how he cuts an orange
by clicking here.
"Spam?" Rene Gutel :
Sometimes food can be a dividing line because what you eat,
or what you don't eat, can say a lot about you. It can speak
to your tastes, your socioeconomic status, how you were raised.
It gets kind of complicated and touchy and emotional. Rene Gutel
found all this out not long ago. She's a reporter in Phoenix,
and also a newlywed. Her husband is John Tynan We'll let them
tell you the story.
