On today’s show we have NY Times Garden columnist Leslie Land on deer fencing and frost bites, Cari Swanson on riding your horse in circles – perfect circles that is, Alex Tuller adds fresh basil to fresh garlic and somehow gets pesto, Dean Temple gets downright giddy celebrating the great cheese poet James McIntyre, and [...]
(As read and prepared by Alex Tuller for the September 29, 2005 podcast)
I make my pesto in the mostly in food processor because I am always in a rush. And right now the garlic is great and the basil is still great if you’ve been picking it regularly.
2 cups fresh basil
1/2 c extra virgin olive [...]
Queen of Cheese
We have seen thee, Queen of cheese,
Laying quietly at your ease,
Gently fanned by evening breeze,
Thy fair form no flies dare seize.
All gaily dressed soon you’ll go
To the great Provincial Show,
To be admired by many a beau
In the city of Toronto.
Cows numerous as a swarm of bees,
Or as the leaves upon the [...]
On today’s show we have NY Times Garden columnist Leslie Land on grapes in the arbor and fragrances from fall’s garden, Dean Temple reads an excerpt from the historical letters of the father of Chianti wine, and we have a very packed-full Hudson Valley things to do list from Ilana Papele.
To hear old episodes of [...]
Excerpts from the Antiche Lettere Di Vino
Letters by Ser Lapo Mazzei
of the great Fonterutoli winery in Tuscany –
the first person on record to have trafficked in Chianti wine.
I.
To Postoia
Florence, October 21st, 1390
;Therefore, having spoken of the soul (even though it was not that appropriate), I shall now speak of ordinary things. I enjoy foods that [...]
On today’s show we have NY Times Garden columnist Leslie Land on brugmansia, lespedeza, and huitlacoche – and you tell me which one of those is the bad thing – and Dean Temple reads an excerpt from the Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book, including a recipe for a fabulous cocktail you can make yourself. We have [...]
Written and published by Albert Stevens Crockett, historian of the Waldorf-Astoria in 1935
III. Baptismal
The visitor to a speakeasy, during the recent Period of Stress, may have lacked nothing in abundance of supply; but he was confronted by decided circumscription in variety. Had one who knew breathed to dispensers of dreadful drinks that masked under names [...]
On today’s show we have NY Times Garden columnist Leslie Land on big bucks and dry soil, Cari Swanson on horsemanship, Alex Tuller on squash and savory pies, Dean Temple reads The Wild Ried by Louise Imogen Guiney, and we have the events calendar from Ilana Papele.
If you would like to hear the direct streaming [...]
The Wild Ride
I HEAR in my heart, I hear in its ominous pulses,
All day, on the road, the hoofs of invisible horses,
All night, from their stalls, the importunate pawing and neighing.
Let cowards and laggards fall back! But alert to the saddle
Weatherworn and abreast, go men of our galloping legion,
With a stirrup-cup each to the lily [...]
(As read and prepared by Alex Tuller for teh September 8, 2005 podcast.)
What to do with the squash? You have probably gotten sort of sick of sautaéed squash at this point in the summer. Well there are a bunch of different things you can do like make breads and so forth. I use squash as [...]