Julia and Sasha are joined by Rafa, a New Yorker with a passion for cooking and eating good food, to discuss the legendary memoir that turned Anthony Bourdain from an average chef into one of the most incredible food and travel journalists of the 20th century. They discuss working in real NYC kitchens, tips for cooking at home, and some of the more memorable parts of the Bourdain's sensational book. Other topics include: Aunt Sandy and the Kwanzaa Cake, magic whisks, Sasha baking donuts at 2 am, sole meunière, Turkey in 2015, and more.
     

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In this bonus episode, Julia and co-host Rique, our new friend we met at a BLM protest in Colorado Springs, discuss The End of Policing as a response to police brutality and racial equality. Too often, white people refuse to let Black Americans lead the discussion on issues of race. That has to end. "Defund the police" means fewer police antagonizing communities of color and more money directed to education and community initiatives. Police should not be the primary point of contact for the homeless or mentally ill. Prostitution and drugs should be legal. Other topics include the school-to-prison pipeline, the War on Drugs and the new Jim Crow era (see Michelle Alexander's incredible book), 13th on Netflix, and the racist, violent history of police in America. Black Lives Matter.

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Contact your reps: https://framinghamsource.com/index.php/2020/06/03/letter-contact-your-elected-leaders-tell-them-black-lives-matter/ 

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Sasha and Julia are joined by Bison, Sasha's former co-worker at the outdoor retailer, to discuss Grandma Gatewood's Walk, the book chronicling Emma Gatewood's journey to become the first woman to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail at age 67. We discuss Mrs. Gatewood's life and legacy and Bison's experiences on the AT, including his favorite sections, luxury items, peeing while walking, and trail magic. Other topics include: the Kingdom Cot, Henry David Thoreau, JanSport, Johnny Appleseed, Miss Janet, and MORE.

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Sasha and Julia discuss Aron Ralston's incredible memoir about cutting off his right arm, which had been trapped by an 800-pound chockstone in Blue John Canyon in Canyonlands National Park, to save his life in 2003. The book is marvelously written with vivid imagery, harrowing adventures, and haunting spiritual experiences. It's one of Sasha's major influences. She might not be a rock climber and snowboarder moving to Colorado without it. And it serves to remind Julia of how tragically short life is and that we should spend our precious time doing something worthwhile. Additional topics include: pOoP, watching the Hills, HaNd SaNiTiZeR, Julia's TIPI, Sasha's fire starters, Chris McCandless, Sasha's OWN MULTITOOL RESCUE STORY, Johnny Kapahala, and MORE.

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Topics include: pOoPiNg while dRiViNg, delishus haute chocolate, RapphanNOCK, HUNTING TURKEYS, Vanessa Hudgens and Miley Cyrus, Sean Spicer, BEV's BREAKFAST BOWL, working at farmers markets in Washington, DC, food deserts, RACISM and MISOGYNY, ag subsidies (gross!), RAW MILK (cover your ears, epidemiologists!!), poobahs, the stupid bureaucracy, a RANT about libertarians, and MORE.

Hi everyone! We haven't posted an episode in a whiiiile, but we do still plan to read good books and talk about them. We've had some other projects and Julia's computer is super jank, but we'll be back next week, 5/11!

Topics include: OUR FIRST INTERVIEW with LEAH, a hiker of the Pacific Coast Trail, dirty socks, ICE AXES, pack weights, bLaCk BeArS and RaTtLeSnAkEs, FB groups, leukotype, PEEING and POOPING on the trail, Mount Whitney, trail names, trail ANGELS, and MORE!

Topics include: Rachel Khoo, PÂTÉ with RABBIT STOMACH, haggis, cognac vs. vermouth?, bonemeal, standing vs. sitting, Sun Dance ceremonies, medicine pipe BUNDLES, Indian vs. Native American, "American" as a controversial term for US citizens, BABIES packed in MOSS, tanning hides, mythical stories about Blackfoot transvestites, a wOmAn WhO mArRiEd a PiEcE oF pOoP, dried meat, preserved PHAT, Kutuyis, bLoOd cLoT SoUp, PAINTED TIPIS, one potentially explicit word???, and MORE!

TOPICS include: Sa$ha SKIING ON ONE SKI, Julia in CAVES and hunting rabbits, Julia cutting up her rabbits and making DELISHUS food with the rabbits, POOP, a really GREAT PUN, Weston A. Price's BADA$$ research of the primitive societies, wide birthing canals, PEMMICAN, puddings, tribal life, fermented FI$H, mixtamalization, PARASITES, tRaShInG tHe PaLeO DiEt, and MORE!

TOPICS include: the Eiteljorg Museum, Leah the PODCAT, skiing and snowboarding, living in TEEPEES, Julia's first HUNTING TRIP, grinding up meat, sea life in the ocean, AMPHIBIANS going EXTINCT, how humans destroyed other species, White Nose syndrome of BATS, stupid ROUNDUP, mesocosms, the saturation state, Couvier and Darwin, a bunch of extinct animals and a bunch of bone fossils, and MORE.