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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:33 AM
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Michael Pollan ("Don't Eat Anything Your Grandmother Wouldn't Recognize As Food") On Book TV Today
http://www.booktv.org/program.aspx?ProgramId=9023&SectionName=&PlayMedia=No

Listing says 3:30 but I'm not sure what time zone they're talking.

I caught the first run last night, it was a pretty good lecture. One of the fascinating nuggets was how the fed insisted, from the 1920s until 1973 when it was overturned, that anything that didn't adhere to traditional methods had to be labeled "imitation." He claimed that using those standards, most of our dairy products that use things like carrageen & guar gum (heavy creams, sour creams) would be labeled as imitations.
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:41 AM
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1. We don't need no steenkin mutant chemicalized corporate facsimile food-product crapola
Edited on Sun Jan-13-08 09:41 AM by SpiralHawk
fer sure.

Eat it the way Mom Nature serves it, not the way corporate profiteers tweak and poison and mutate it...
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mojowork_n Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:49 AM
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2. 3:30 is probably EST. Same time as Cowboys/Giants game.
I might switch over during commercials.

Grannie didn't eat a whole lot of tofu, and I'm sure she never tasted those unsalted, sesame crunchy things in the bulk foods section, or some other contemporary products that are O.K.
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 10:10 AM
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7. Oh I Love Those Sesame Crunchy Things
Damn ... now you've given me a Jones on.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:59 AM
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3. Thanks for the heads up.
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momster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 10:02 AM
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4. Both Grandmas Terrible Cooks
Edited on Sun Jan-13-08 10:04 AM by momster
One boiled vegetables into a soggy mass and cooked every form of meat until it was grey -- you haven't lived until you've eaten grey chicken -- because when she was growing up you cooked food until it and all attendant germs were dead.

The other added tablespoons of salt and lumps of chicken fat to everything except chocolate pudding, and I'm not willing to swear to that!

They both recognized as 'food' a lot of things that I wouldn't touch with a barge pole, including marshmallow fluff, tuna casserole with butter and extra potato chips, and 'apple pie' from the Depression made with Ritz crackers and no apple (receipe still available by the way.)

The good ol' days weren't.
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 10:08 AM
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5. Every Party Has Its Pooper
That's why we invited YOU!
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momster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 12:24 PM
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12. With a name like "Crisco"
it has to be good!
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gollygee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 10:09 AM
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6. LOL my grandmas weren't very good cooks either
and I didn't recognize everything they cooked as food. :D
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mojowork_n Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 11:19 AM
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8. You want funny?
This is:



From the Golden Age of Butter, to Cooking with Dr. Pepper, it's got actual recipes from cookbooks of the 30's, 40's, 50's & 60's.
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momster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 12:26 PM
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13. Bless You for That Link
Now my stomach hurts from laughter...'cause I'm sure not eating any of that!
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-14-08 05:34 AM
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14. Here's the best one of all, and it's not a recipe!
http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/bbtrix/4.html

An ad for "Siz Instant Charcoal Starter." Lighter fluid in foam form! That shit must have been the preferred accelerant for arsonists all over America before it was banned.
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knitter4democracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 11:23 AM
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9. My dad's mom was like that--ruined everything she touched.
My mom's mom apparently was an amazing cook, but Nana, well, let's just say she even made scrambled eggs grey, and I don't know how she did that.

Oh, and all that stuff you mention at the end, that's how my stepmom cooks. *shudder* Don't get me started on all the crap she fed us when we were kids. Ugh.
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 11:29 AM
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10. well in spite of the G'ma factor
Michael Pollan is well worth watching , he makes a whole lot of sense.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 11:36 AM
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11. Banksy's comment
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