Let's Get Real
124 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 8 years ago - ★★★★ - 44 ratingsOn Let’s Get Real Chef Erica Wides walks you down the aisles of the surreal world of food, serving up a heaping dose of reality by separating the food from the foodiness so you can forage, hunt, gather, trap and fish for real food anywhere, even in a foodiness-filled mega market. Incisive, pragmatic, sarcastic, and an unrepentant know-it-all when it comes to anything food, on Let’s Get Real Chef Erica Wides does the job for you of sifting out everything that’s fake in the world of food – from “foodiness” marketing and cooking show shams to “health-halo green-washing” and annoying whole-food righteousness – so you never unknowingly chow down on carpeting again.
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Episode 164: Color Me Freaked Out...
October 11, 2016 18:37 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBThere’s nothing left to say. I’ve read every editorial, every FaceBook post, every HuffPo screaming front page rant. I’m done. I’m done with the election, and I’m done even discussing it, or him. He who shall not be named. I had been calling him the apricot barbarian, but you know what? I love apricots, they’re delicious and pretty and when they’re ripe, they smell how I imagine Eden might have smelled, if Eden had been a real place and not just a setting for a fairy tale. Apricots are an in...
Episode 163: Scary Clowns, Apricot-Faced Barbarians, and Gluten; Who Ya Gonna Call?
October 04, 2016 18:44 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBWe're all really, really scared these days. Scared for the future, scared for the planet (well, some of us), scared of scary scaring clowns scaring kids, scared of scary clowns pretending to be legit candidates...OMG, so much scariness! And it's not even Halloween yet! But even worse than all that scary stuff...is GLUTEN! Oh no, GLUTEN! The big scary monster lurking in all our most delicious foods, like bread! Well, you all know how I feel about this, that unless you are straight-up legit ...
Episode 162: Let's Get Real...And Sharp. And Blunt!
September 27, 2016 18:11 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBIt's special guest day here in the Foodiness Fallout Shelter! My new, once-in-a-while co-host, Emily Peterson, has taken time out from her busy life of cheffing, motherhood, chicken raising and occasional taxidermy to join us down here. You may know Emily from her HRN show, Sharp and Hot, but today we're doing a mini-series within my show, called Sharp and Blunt. Guess who's Blunt? Ha. We have lots of stuff in common and lots of similar food issues, so we're gonna kinda free-form it today, ...
Episode 161: This Foodiness Was Made For Walking!
September 20, 2016 18:06 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MB@KarlMeltzer just broke the world record for the being fastest ever finisher of the entire Appalachian Trail, you know the Appalachian train, right? It’s a 2,190 mile hiking trail that runs along the East coast of the US, from Georgia to Maine. Now, I hike, and I’ve done little bitty bits of it, 4-5 miles here and there, on DAY hikes. I see people on the trail, with their huge packs and gaunt faces, and their lingering clouds of BO trailing behind them…and I give them major respect for unde...
Episode 160: Welcome back to the Fallout Shelter, now climate controlled by Foodiness!
September 13, 2016 18:34 - 30 minutes - 28.4 MBToday, on the season premiere of Let's Get Real!!! Ok, so a couple of changes are afoot here in the Foodiness Fallout Shelter. Well, no, actually the shelter is the same, I barely touched the place over the summer. It looks really great, and the biomass fuel HVAC system I built last winter is working great, too. Biomass is awesome, you guys know about biomass right? It’s using stuff like agricultural waste products to create energy? Like threshed wheat stalks and orange peels and broccoli s...
Episode 159: Cod Worms and Devil Dogs – extended edition
June 21, 2016 17:53 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBToday, on Let's Get Real... It's the extended live version of "Cod Worms and Devil Dogs"! Can't remember what that is? It's the live theater piece I did back in March. This is the extended version, that I performed on Saturday. I worked so hard on this as a live show, that I'm not ready to put it to bed yet. So all you lucky listeners get to hear it today, instead of a regular episode. Live at 1:00 p.m. on www.heritageradionetwork.org as always, and later on letsgetrealshow.com, iTunes a...
Episode 158: Pollen-Whacked? Maybe You Need a Shot of Lawn-Grass Juice!
June 07, 2016 17:28 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBI’m hiding out down here in the fallout shelter this week. I’m safe here, since we’re so deep underground and we filter our air. I can’t go outside anymore, since I seem to have developed terrible seasonal allergies, all of a sudden. Twice this spring I’ve been hit with weeks of a sore throat, major congestion, coughing. It’s not a cold, I feel fine underneath it all, and I’m convinced that it’s related to climate change. I never had any allergies before, so why now? I think there are invasi...
Episode 157: Today's Drink Special, is the Saddam Slam!
May 31, 2016 19:38 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBOnce upon a time, a long, long time ago, in a very dark, grim place in my past... I waited tables at TGI Friday's. Yes, really. Hard to believe, I know, but I needed a job, I couldn't get hired anywhere else, and a friend got me the job. It was the early 90's, we were in a recession, I was depressed and dumpy looking, and no higher-end restaurant would give me the time of day, so I went the corporate route. For a few months... Suffice it to say, TGI and me...we didn't really, uh, "mesh"? ...
Episode 156: We Hold These Foodiness Truths to be Self-Evident...
May 24, 2016 17:56 - 30 minutes - 28 MBHere, in corporate Big Food America, we apparently hold certain Foodiness truths to be self-evident, which is that all industrially produced foods are created Equal, that they are endowed by their corporate Creators with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are potentially destroying Life, crushing the Liberty of the small farmer and the pursuit of profitable Happiness for those running the corporations.- Sorry, I’ve been thinking about American holidays, and the 4th is right around ...
Episode 155: Babies & Cake
May 17, 2016 17:25 - 33 minutes - 31 MBSo I’ve got babies on the brain. Everywhere I go, everyone I know and see is breeding, birthing, being fruitful and multiplying as if babies were going out of style or were about to be banned or rationed by the government. Brooklyn is baby-breeding central. I miss the old NYC where once you had kids you moved out, fearing for their lives. Not me, of course, I’m too old, that ship has sailed and there’s no turning back into the wind now. Oh sure, so-called well-meaning people say to me, “Oh ...
Episode 154: I’m Not Licking MY Fingers…
May 03, 2016 17:29 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBToday, an ALL-NEW episode of Let's Get Real! Yes, it's a new show, after a long break to develop the new weekly Heritage Radio Network News show, of which I'm the co-anchor! But I'm back, this week with tales of finger-lickin' weirdness. On today's show I revisit my invitation to the BIG Kentucky Fried Chicken event where I was taken way, way down the Foodiness rabbit hole, to the place where the chicken is fried, the slaw is sweet, and @RachelDratch gets hired to demo breading. Yes, Debbi...
Episode 153: Cod Worms
March 29, 2016 17:52 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MBI like to write, and I like to talk into a microphone. And I also like to talk in front of a live audience, I’ve discovered. Teaching all those years gave me the confidence to stand up in front of a group and tell a story, even if that story was about kitchen sanitation or pork butchering. I have a lot of stories, after being in this crazy industry for over 20 years, and I wanted to turn them into something entertaining and live, much like this very show, but in front of a live audience. So...
Episode 152: To Everything There Is a Season, and a Dry, Crumbly Cookie to Match
March 22, 2016 17:38 - 30 minutes - 28 MBOn this week's episode of Let's Get Real, Erica celebrates the eve of the joyous holiday of Purim, aka "The Jewish Halloween." Among many other reasons, this holiday is exciting because it heralds the coming of spring! Also this week was National Slurpee Day, when 7-Eleven invited customers to bring in their container of choice for a free fill-up – whether it was a cup, an oil drum, or even an inflatable kiddie pool.
Episode 151: Go West, Young Man, But Don't Forget to Bring Your Insulin
March 15, 2016 19:09 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBOn this week's episode of Let's Get Real, Erica waxes nostalgic about the classic film Annie Hall, and its derisive depiction of California health food restaurants in the 1970s. Before arugula and Whole Foods were invented, California pioneered the health and organic food craze, which has become ubiquitous in today's society. However, it seems the glimmering, shimmering bubble of The Golden State may have burst, according to some new statistics which indicate that 55% of the adult population...
Episode 150: We’re 150, But We Don’t Look a Day Over 100!
March 01, 2016 18:57 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBOn this 15oth episode of Let’s Get Real, host Erica Wides opens with a revelation she had about cooking while swimming, before diving into the problem of fish ingesting plastic refuse such as microbeads while feeding, and the merits of sunblock versus face wash. Finally, she lays out the three “planks of her platform” that have sustained the show through 150 episodes. “You know, life is just full of conundrums and hypocrisy, and we all just have to learn to deal with it. That’s part of gett...
Episode 149: One of These Things Does Not Belong
February 23, 2016 19:55 - 32 minutes - 30 MBOn this week’s Let’s Get Real, the theme is “one of these things does not belong.” Chef Erica Wides reminisces about the darker, grittier days of Sesame Street, expresses bewilderment at the new McDonald’s chicken-and-pancake sandwich, and reveals her current favorite food item: the Okinowan sweet potato. “Once Guiliani and Elmo took over Sesame Street, the whole scene changed.” [8:20] – Erica Wides
Episode 148: In Space, No One Can Hear You Pickling
February 16, 2016 19:48 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBCan you make make pickles in space? Can you rely on your dreams to write your shows? Do you get gloomy in February? All this and more this week on Lets Get Real. Chef Erica Wides discusses growing vegetables in The Martian, literally dreaming of future shows, and the possibility of pickling on foreign planets. “If Matt Damon had grown a lot of vegetables, he would have had to preserve them… maybe he could have made pickles on Mars.” [20:00] – Erica Wides
Episode 147: A Holiday Card Against Humanity
February 09, 2016 18:00 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBToday is February 9, 2016. We are now 39 days into the year. At the end of this week, on the 14th of February, the “holiday” season, will be officially over. The end, Done. Until…of course, Easter rolls around. Then we begin the next round of sugar-gorging, present shopping, holiday madness. Because people buy Easter presents now, apparently! It’s a thing. Hey! Let’s celebrate the crucifixion and mythological resurrecting of a Jew, by buying each other new X-boxes or pink Uggs! I know, let’s...
Episode 146: What’s On Your Plate?
February 02, 2016 21:42 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBErica Wides is back for a brand new episode of _ Let’s Get Real _ with her good friend Kristin Wartman; Let’s Get Real’s resident nutrition guru and food policy wonk! She has her own little office down here in the #Foodiness Fallout Shelter, where she sits and works on her forthcoming book “Formerly Known as Food”, and then her and Erica hang out and eat grass-fed burgers. Today they are “discussing” the new #USDA food guide “ #MyPlate” recommendations. “The idea we can eat 12 t...
Episode 145: You Can’t Make Soup Dumplings with Blue Raspberry Flavored Jello…
January 05, 2016 22:50 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MBFrom Erica Wides: So I had to go to Whole Foods a few days ago, to buy unflavored gelatin. You know, like Knox gelatin in the little packets? I needed it for a private cooking class I was teaching, the clients wanted to make soup dumplings, those Chinese dumplings that are filled with ground pork and cabbage and also scalding hot soup stock. To make the soupy filling you make a strong chicken stock and add gelatin to it, or use a lot of extra bones to get the gelatin out that way, but we we...
Episode 144: These Foolish Things…Remind Me of U..tah.
December 01, 2015 23:24 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBFrom Erica Wides herself: Speaking of soda, and Mormons, (we are, in today’s show) in yesterday’s edition of the paper of record there was an article about a lawsuit that is raging between two Utah drink companies, Swig v. Sodalicious. Have you heard of either of these chains? No, you wouldn’t unless you lived in the Mormon enclaves of Utah. Swig and Sodalicous are drinks stores, much like Starbucks, but they sell giant cups of soda, mega-slushies, so-called “energy” drinks, and giant cook...
Episode 143: There’s no Crying over Spilled Green Juice
November 24, 2015 18:00 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBThis week’s episode of _ Let’s Get Real _, as explained by host Erica Wides herself: So just imagine my joy and happiness upon learning that Organic Avenue, the juice and raw-vegan “food” chain has landed on the giant compost heap of nutritional trends. The entire chain has gone under. Way under. Bankruptcy, Out of biz! Whoohoo! They went under, had huge debt, owe hundreds of people thousands of dollars, and the founders made millions off a sale to an investment company. How utterly America...
Episode 142: La Dolce Vita Snickerdoodle
November 10, 2015 18:16 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBToday, on a new Let’s Get Real! Erica Wides: “In Italy, in 1984 I drank my first cappuccino, I’d never really had anything in the espresso family, and this foamy, dark, rich creature was something else. I was hooked on the capp. But, as I was quickly admonished after ordering one late in the day, you don’t drink cappuccino anytime after breakfast. Milk is a morning item for Italians, once you drink it in the morning, that’s it. Cut off. Unless… you’re American, then they’d just roll their ...
Episode 141: The 2nd (or 3rd) Annual Golden Uncrustables!
November 03, 2015 23:23 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBLive from the Foodiness Fallout Shelter…It’s the 2nd or 3rd annual (I can’t remember) Golden Uncrustables awards show! Starring….your host, Erica! With Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet, and Jack Inslee on the Twitter feed! Before we get started, let’s just re-introduce all of our 87 million global listeners and viewers to the Golden Uncrustable, and give a little historical information about the awards. The Golden Uncrustable is an award for Foodiness atrocities committed, Foodiness audacious...
Episode 140: Does Foodiness cause wrinkles?
October 20, 2015 23:58 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBDoes Foodiness cause wrinkles? Erica Wides is back with a heartfelt episode on apples, aging, Laura Ingalls, Ira Apfel and .. yes, wrinkles.
Episode 139: I Can’t Hear You, There’s Too Much Foodiness In My Ears!
October 13, 2015 17:39 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MBHow does Erica Wides come up with the topics featured on _ Let’s Get Real _? Usually during a hike or at the gym great ideas pop up, but, she has one big problem: the loud music! Is it possible to just turn down sometimes? After the break, Erica pulls this all together with food and foodiness by means of the term: misophonia. Tune in to hear Erica’s spin on this clamorous claim. “Misophonia is the intolerance or hatred of the sound of food… or the sound of people eating food.” [17:00] –E...
Episode 138: Got Breast Cancer Awareness Donuts?
October 06, 2015 21:12 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBErica Wides is not happy. Pumpkin spice is everywhere, Burger King is making black buns, foodiness has taken over and everybody is trying to sell you a pink ribbon (or a donut). She wonders if these ribbons and donuts really do anything to make us healthier and proposes something entirely new – Foodiness Awareness Month. You might want to sit down for this one. “Going back 3,000 years in food history, the pumpkin spice mania has never been as high as it is today. It’s a true sign of the apo...
Episode 137: “Why did the bear sh*t in the woods? To cover up all the Foodiness trash”
September 29, 2015 21:06 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBHow does foodiness trash find its way to the woods? Erica Wides shakes her head at diapers on the hike trail this week on Let’s Get Real. Why do so many food brands package their “food” in layers upon layers of unnecessary plastics? Why do those plastics end up everywhere? Tune in and lament with your faithful host. rubbish in the forest under tree “We are drowning, dying and suffocating in plastic packaging. More than half the fish caught now have tiny plastic pellets in their stomachs.” ...
Episode 136: Fear No Food!
July 28, 2015 20:28 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MBWhy are Americans so afraid of food? We are so afraid of the safeness of the food that we are eating, that it’s preventing us from allowing ourselves to see it as it truly is. Our perceptions of what food is safe and what isn’t have been completely warped by strict health codes and air-tight packaging. This week on Let’s Get Real, Erica Wides examines the tendency that Americans have to let their fear of food prevent them from eating some of the most delicious things nature has to offer. “I...
Episode 135: The Raw and the Burnt
July 21, 2015 20:29 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBWhat does the word “done” mean to you? Is it a raw slab of red meat served as is on a plate, or do you like it cooked into a greyish-black oblivion? This week on Let’s Get Real, Erica Wides discusses the concept of “doneness”. Can doneness function on a spectrum similar to autism or sexuality? Erica argues that the amount of “doneness” depends on the person preparing the meat and how they enjoy to cook and eat it. But even though there is a wide range of “doneness” preferences, we can all st...
Episode 134: Tales of Foodiness Fishiness
July 14, 2015 18:06 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBAnyone that says that they don’t like to eat fish have probably only ever eaten tilapia, which is the worst fish ever according to Erica Wides on this week’s episode of Let’s Get Real. Despite tilapia being incredibly bland and tasteless, it is one of the most popular kinds of fish and is available on almost every menu at every restaurant. Scombroid fish, the fast moving, dark meat fish like Tuna and Swordfish which taste better are being over-fished and also have dangerous levels of mercury...
Episode 133: Body
June 23, 2015 20:42 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBDid you know that more than half of America’s kids are chronically dehydrated? Yup. Know why? Foodiness drinks; like Sporty-Ade and Crappi-Sun pouches, and Juicee-Boxes…and regular and diet sodas, all contribute to fat, sick, and dehydrated kids. Kids who may very well grow up to vote for TED CRUZ! Or even worse! Wait, what’s worse than Ted Cruz? Listen to find out, on a live, hydrated, and in full living color Let’s Get Real! “Water creates life. We are water. However you want to define l...
Episode 132: Can it GET any more sarcastic around here today?
June 17, 2015 00:50 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBErica Wides is not alone in the #foodiness shelter this week! On today’s episode of Let’s Get Real Erica is joined by The Sarcastic Nutritionists! Josh and Gretchen, the masterminds behind that snark-tastic name, and the bloggers and “Etsy with a sense of humor” creators of their namesake products come down the ladder to the shelter to talk what else? ‪#‎Foodiness‬. Oh and nutrition, whatever that really means anymore, and Erica’s new theory that kids who are diagnosed with ADHD are re...
Episode 131: We are (Foodiness) Stardust
June 09, 2015 18:59 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBThis week on Let’s Get Real Erica starts the show by giving us an update on her hunt for the perfect snack, and then moves on to a discussion about chicken protein powder. Why are we so obsessed with having as much protein as possible, and why do food companies feel they have to add protein to everything from cookies to water? Erica goes in to a discussion all about real food products this week on Lets Get Real. This program was brought to you by Cain Vineyard and Winery. “Call me crazy but...
Episode 130: It’s happy hour in the fallout shelter! Well, as happy as a trio of curmudgeons can get…
June 02, 2015 17:41 - 39 minutes - 35.7 MBThis week on Let’s Get Real host Erica Wides interviews Sayre Piotrkowski and Collin McDonnell for a conversation all about how foodiness and beer have intertwined. Erica, Sayre, and Collin discuss how, just like the wine industry has evolved since the 70s, beer seems to be on the same track. How do we tell the difference between people who are doing beer the right way, and people who just want to get there piece of a new trend? Who can we really trust in the world of brew? All this week on ...
Episode 129: And So I Shall Go Forth, and Seek Out My Perfect Snack
May 05, 2015 18:44 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBErica Wides has snacking on her mind on a brand new episode of Let’s Get Real. Why do we love snacks so much? What is a “Quesorito”? Fight the foodiness, tune in and embrace real food! This program was brought to you by Cain Vineyard & Winery “Americans consume 500-700 calories a day JUST from snacking!” [18:00] “Nobody needs to eat a quesorito.. I don’t even know what a quesorito is!!!” [25:00] –Erica Wides on Let’s Get Real
Episode 128: Nobody Down Here But Me and My Nuts
April 28, 2015 17:07 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBThere are special guests this week on Let’s Get Real! Erica Wides is joined by some friends in the foodiness fallout shelter, Cara Tannenbaum & Andrea Tutunjian – co-authors of In a Nutshell: Cooking and Baking with Nuts and Seeds The only cookbook of its kind, In a Nutshell is a complete guide to cooking and baking with nuts and seeds. After working for years as instructors at the Institute of Culinary Education, Cara Tannenbaum and Andrea Tutunjian deliver the essential cookbook for Mother...
Episode 127: Over
April 21, 2015 17:22 - 31 minutes - 28.4 MBErica Wides doesn’t like sports. Big surprise. But recently she learned what an “over-under” is… or if you’re speaking in a NYC sports talk radio accent .. the “ovah-unduh”. The “ovuh-unduh” is an American phenomenon. After the industrial revolution and the mechanization and centralization of farming and the invention of post-war chemical fertilizing and the subsequent government subsidizing of commodity grains and then the subsequent shift in out diets to a corn and soybean orgy of grain an...
Episode 126: Little House of Foodiness Hyperspin on the Prairie
April 14, 2015 17:17 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBThis week on Lets Get Real Erica starts off the show by talking about her favorite imaginary/real best friend, Laura Ingalls Wilder author and subject of the Little House on the Prairie book series. She draws from what she thinks Laura’s perspective of food in our modern day and age would be. Would Laura even recognize the things that we call food today, and how does our increasing amount of choices in our diet cause problems in the modern world, all discussed on this weeks episode. This pro...
Episode 125: Breast Milk
March 24, 2015 17:39 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBErica Wides celebrates 125 episode of Let’s Get Real by going back to the basics — milk! What makes breastmilk so special? Why does anybody use formula? Well – there’s a lot to unpack here. Erica calls baby formula the original “foodiness” product – is she right? Tune in and hear her share her opinions on the issue of breastmilk vs formula. This program was brought to you by Cain Vineyard & Winery. “We can all agree that mama milk kind of crushes soy-based formulas – no matter what. Breast ...
Episode 124: Why Aren’t Baby Carrots Actually Shaped Like Babies?
March 17, 2015 18:26 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MBDon’t throw those ugly carrots out! Or that old can of soup! Or those lentils! Erica Wides helps you feel better about your old weird foods on a mindful episode of Let’s Get Real. Food waste is a serious problem and Erica explores how the foodiness machine plays into the equation. This program was brought to you by Cain Vineyard & Winery. “We throw out almost 40% of the food we produce.” [12:00] “Lately, food waste has been making it’s way into the mainstream media — which is great!” [13:0...
Episode 123: Watch Out For Salty Man Holes
March 10, 2015 17:21 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MBThis week on Lets Get Real Erica begins the show by discussing when she first moved to Brooklyn 20 years ago, she transitions from this to looking at how Brooklyn has changed her lifestyle and her cooking. She talks about one cooking job that she does that involved cooking for a wealthy family, and her frustration with the occasional terrible cooking of the nanny. She discusses the fact that the cooking is not a matter of economics, but rather a way for the nanny to “stick it to the man.” Th...
Episode 122: What Color is Your Foodiness Parachute
March 03, 2015 18:17 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MBThis week on Lets Get Real Erica begins the show by addressing the briefly famous dress picture that it seems none of us could agree on. She uses this topic of color to transition to a recent announcement by Nestle. Nestle stated that by the end of 2015 they will be removing all artificial colors from their candy. This program was sponsored by Cain Vineyard and Winery. “If there were no candy in the world by tomorrow, poof! Who would suffer?” [1:07] — Erica Wides on Lets Get Real
Episode 121: Eat Some Dirt, America!
February 24, 2015 18:24 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBThis week on Lets Get Real Erica starts the show by reminiscing about Seinfeld’s “Bizzaro World”. She transitions to talking about her own personal bizzaro world, and how some of the current policies regarding nutrition makes it seem as if the US government is going crazy. She goes into other topics which include, Ronald reagan, Greenwich Connecticut, aliens, and food allergies. This program was sponsored by Cain Vineyard and Winery “The same group that brought us smoking as an asthma cure…...
Episode 120: Forget the Quinoa, I’m Eating a Bowl of Pebbles for Breakfast Now
February 10, 2015 23:38 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBThis is a story about rocks, pebbles and stones. From the doctor’s office to Iceland, Erica takes listeners on a journey that ends with stone soup. Stone soup? Kidney Stones? It all makes sense in the end. Tune in and find out why pebbles might be the next big diet craze. This program was brought to you by Cain Vineyard & Winery.
Episode 119: Just Because I’m a Chef, How Would I Know What’s in a Cotton
January 13, 2015 21:42 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBCotton Candy Latte? Oh come on!! Yes, it’s a real thing and yes — Erica Wides is talking about it on today’s episode of Let’s Get Real. Tubs of margarine and suburban dinners are Erica’s nightmare and she gives listeners a window into the hellish world of guns and snowboards in New Jersey. This program was brought to you “To me, the flavor of cotton candy just tastes pink.” [05:00] –Erica WIdes on Let’s Get Real
Episode 118: That Not
January 06, 2015 23:21 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MBWhat better way to introduce the new year than a long winded story about Coscto and The Peanuts? Tune into the season debut of Let’s Get Real as Erica Wides teaches listeners about the virtues of frozen food and whole animals. Hear what she thinks you should all be doing in 2015 and why family dinners can be challenging. This program was brought to you by Cain Vineyard & Winery. “This year everybody’s resolution including mine should be taking a fresh look at your food – restocking… literal...
Episode 117: The Year in Foodiness
December 23, 2014 22:43 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBIt’s time to recap the year in foodiness as Erica Wides closes out 2014 on the season finale of Let’s Get Real. From bleached cereal grains to kale salads at The Cheesecake Factory, Erica takes a look at what’s saved us and plagued us in 2014. Is the future bright? Have we made progress? Will a giant avalanche of sugar destroy us all? Find out on Let’s Get Real!. “2015 – I thought we’d never live to meet you next week” [04:00] “You can get a kale salad at the cheesecake factory. if that’s ...
Episode 116: I have a bone to pick with you
December 02, 2014 22:26 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBSo Thanksgiving is over and many of you have thrown out the carcass and moved on from the whole ordeal. Erica Wides has a bone to pick with you this week on Let’s Get Real. Erica breaks animals down to the bone and explains what makes skeletal pieces the foundation of Western cooking. Is bone broth the new kale juice? Is there a more flavorful part of an animal than the bones? Find out and tune in! This program was brought to you by Cain Vineyard & Winery. “Generally speaking the bones and ...
Episode 115: Sometimes..All I Need is the Air That I Breathe…and a Plain Yogurt
November 25, 2014 23:32 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBWho’s the bigger liar — the banking industry or the peanut butter industry? The jury is out. Tune in to a brand new episode of Let’s Get Real as Erica Wides tries to make sense out of whipped peanut butter and yogurt, amongst other things. Find out why air isn’t free anymore and why Erica can’t stand rich spoiled kids. It’s a good one. This program was brought to you by Cain Vineyard & Winery. “Maybe the biggest liars in the industry aren’t bankers after all – maybe it’s the peanut butter m...