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By Michael Gebert
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Podcast Description
Interesting people and delicious visuals from the world of food, based in today's most exciting culinary city, Chicago.
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
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| 1 | VideoSky Full of Bacon 15: Big Chef Small Farmer | I look at the question of whether quality, sustainable agriculture can scale up to meet the needs of our modern food system by talking to a bigtime Chicago chef and one of the local, organic farmers he buys from. (23:15) | 6/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoSky Full of Bacon 14: The Last Days of Kugelis | Chicago's Healthy Food was the oldest Lithuanian restaurant in the world when it closed in late 2009. I was on hand for the last days of this legendary South Side restaurant. (15:14) | 3/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoSky Full of Bacon multimedia event: Making Illegal Cheese | Audio documentarian David Hammond and I visit a home cheesemaker making raw milk camembert, for WBEZ's Worldview. (8:36) | 2/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoSky Full of Bacon 13: Pie As a Lifestyle | Pie is more than just dessert— it conjures up a whole range of emotions and imagery. In this podcast, I explore the iconic American food with a popular Chicago piemaker, Paula Haney of Hoosier Mama Pie Co. (16:12) | 12/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoSky Full of Bacon short: Edzo’s Burger Shop | Eddie Lakin, a former fine dining chef turned burger guy, talks about how he aims to make the perfect old school burger and fries at his Edzo's Burger Shop in Evanston. (7:32) | 11/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoSky Full of Bacon 12: In the Land of Whitefish | It may not be the deadliest catch, but come with me as I go on a whitefish boat to catch one of the classic fishes of Great Lakes dining, and learn the history of this very local and sustainable fish. (19:50) | 9/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoSky Full of Bacon 11: A Better Fish | Dive into the confusing world of fish with a high-end fishmonger, and see for yourself how fish gets to your table— and how chefs are exploring new and more sustainable choices. (22:26) | 7/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoSky Full of Bacon 10: Prosciutto di Iowa | Can food as good as Europe's best come from the midwest? Go inside the Italian-style prosciuttificio of La Quercia in Norwalk, Iowa, and see for yourself. (20:23) | 5/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoSky Full of Bacon 09: Raccoon Stories | Here's a slice of small-town America... served next to a heaping plate of an unusual meat. Sky Full of Bacon takes you to the 82nd Annual Coon Feed at the American Legion post in Delafield, Wisconsin. (18:35) | 3/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoSky Full of Bacon 08: Pear Shaped World | Ever wonder about the farmers who grow and sell the produce at your local farmer's market? Meet Oriana, the Asian pear lady at Chicago's Green City Market, and travel to her orchard in western Illinois. (15:46) | 2/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoSky Full of Bacon 07: Eat This City | Urban foragers are people who eat what grows naturally from a very unnatural place— a city. In this all-vegetarian Sky Full of Bacon podcast, urban foragers show us how they find food all around them, and we nibble our way through a remarkable wilderness literally in the shadow of Chicago's skyscrapers. (17:45) | 1/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoSky Full of Bacon 06: There Will Be Pork (Pt. 2) | The phrase "farm to table" is used a lot in foodie circles. In the second half of this Sky Full of Bacon two-part podcast, I'll complete the picture of what that really means with visits to restaurant kitchens... and to a slaughterhouse. (19:56) | 11/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoSky Full of Bacon 05: There Will Be Pork (Pt. 1) | The phrase "farm to table" is used a lot in foodie circles. In this Sky Full of Bacon two-part podcast, I'll show you what it really means— from the farm to the slaughterhouse to the kitchens of five of Chicago's top restaurants. (19:58) | 11/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoSky Full of Bacon 04: A Head’s Tale | Could eating head cheese be a moral act? In "A Head's Tale," I follow a piece of meat most of us would avoid, a whole pig's head, from organic farm to restaurant table. (19:19) | 10/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoSky Full of Bacon 03: The Last Brisket Show | Go deep into the smoke-stained barbecue country of central Texas as I talk to two legendary pitmasters in a town that almost has more great BBQ joints than people— Taylor, Texas. (13:06) | 8/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoSky Full of Bacon 02: Duck School | Go inside a Chinese restaurant to learn not only how Peking duck is made but how traditions are passed from immigrant father to Americanized daughter. (15:18) | 7/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoSky Full of Bacon 01: How Local Can You Go? | Explore the localness of local eating with a shop devoted to local food and a Chicagoan who grows his own food on his garage. (19:39) | 6/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 17 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
A Thought Provoking Look At Where We Get Our Food
What a great show. I am a happy subscriber. It got me thinking how much things have changed since the first "back to the land" movement in the mid-seventies. At that time, I was 9 years old and had just moved to a 40 acre organic farm. I took to gardening like a duck takes to bowling. For me, butchering chickens will never, ever be a fun thing to do. Still, I came to know where food comes from intimately. The same concerns about where and how we get food are still with us. However, where in 1974 l learned some things from Frank Alfrey, who lived across the gravel road, was 90 years old, and and had originally cleared the land by hand with his brother, now there aren't as many left who can explain the right way to plant potatoes. After 14 years living in the City, I'm not sure I could even get dandelions to grow.
NOT Apple TV compatible
It's a shame a HD vodcast isn't Apple TV compatible.
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