Last Chance Foods from WNYC Podcast
1) Learning to Farm: Resources
CLASSES & RESOURCES IN NYC GrowNYC’s Farm Beginnings — a comprehensive agricultural training program developed for new farmers by the people who run the Greenmarket. Designed for a people looking to s...Show More
2) Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Become a Farmer
New Yorkers' interest in where their food comes from and how it is raised has led to a robust farmers' market system, a growing interest in communty gardens and backyard enterprises like raising chick...Show More
3) Last Chance Foods: Stay Cool, Drink Real Food
It’s the high season for cool, slushy drinks. Nina Planck, author of several Real Food cookbooks, says her fermented watermelon basil cooler illustrates one of her key principles: when she processes f...Show More
4) Last Chance Foods: The Ultimate Pickled, Smoked, Smashed, Fried Potato Salad
SMOKED PICKLED POTATOES WITH ANCHOVY AIOLI RECIPEby David Leite, Leite's Culinaria Serves 4 to 6 INGREDIENTSFor the anchovy aioli 3 garlic cloves, minced 1 tablespoon Kosher salt 6 anchovy fillets, m...Show More
Last Chance Foods: The Ultimate Pickled, Smoked, Smashed, Fried Potato Salad
05:09 | Jul 4th, 2014
5) Last Chance Foods: A Compromise for Cilantro Haters?
Cilantro could very well be the world’s most polarizing herb. Those who vehemently hate it may have the aversion coded in their genes, while others happily add it to everything from salsas to soups. B...Show More
6) Last Chance Foods: A Kid-Friendly Fruit for Healthy Eating
The Bronx has a weight problem, and part of that stems from parents who simply don’t know how to cook. Chef and educator Tania Lopez knows about that situation firsthand. She grew up in the South Bron...Show More
7) Last Chance Foods: Radishes Are the Real Fast Food
Here’s a fun project for kids and apartment dwellers: Plant a radish seed in a pot, care for it, and then 25 to 30 days later, you should be able to harvest a fully grown vegetable. When it comes to f...Show More
8) Last Chance Foods: Behold the Power of the Pea
This week, cookbook authors Brent Ridge and Josh Kilmer-Purcell, known as the reality television duo “The Fabulous Beekman Boys,” charmingly flaunted two long-standing tenants of Last Chance Foods: Do...Show More
9) Last Chance Foods: Foraging for One of the World's Healthiest Greens
The cool weather this spring means that farmers markets may be looking surprisingly bare for late May. Parks and forests, however, are already bursting with life — and tasty, nutritious finds for know...Show More
10) Last Chance Foods: Eat a Cricket, Save the Planet
For Rose Wang, it all started with a scorpion street snack in China. She bit into the insect on a dare and was surprised. “[It was] not what I expected,” says Wang, who went on to co-found the insect-...Show More