Let's Get Real

This week on Lets Get Real, Chef Erica Wides helps listeners virtually meet their meat. Hear about how she worked on a grass-fed lamb farm and learned the in and outs of natural animal processing and how much different the pasture raised animals are treated than the typical grain and corn fed industrial stuff. Find out why corn fed meat products dont have the right balance of Omega3 and Omega6 and how things like paste soy and ammoniated beef product find their way into the commodity product. Todays episode was brought to you by Heritage Foods USAs No Goat Left Behind Project.

This week Lets Get Real goes ripe for seasonality as Chef Erica Wides expounds on the disillusionment that foodiness has created: that seasonal items like strawberries are good and available all year round. Fighting this notion of faux-seasonality Erica will guide you to making smarter choices that that you dont need to be an elite Brooklyn foodie to follow that allows you to fight foodiness at the same price for fast food. As the seasons change maybe its a good time to think about doing the same with your eating habits, so Lets Get Real. This episode is sponsored by Whole Foods Market.

This week Lets Get Real takes on the convenience of food, such as the redesign of the new ketchup packets for drive-thrus, and how that has resulted in the rise of foodiness. No longer having to forage, hunt, process, cook, smoke, etc. our own food has lead to our increased reliance on unhealthy convenience food argues Erica, but there are simple and easy ways to make the move to healthier options and theres no need to do it cold turkey. So tune in to Lets Get Real to find out how you can start making real, informed decision about what you eat. This episode is sponsored Wholefoods Market .

This week brings the exciting inaugural episode of Erica Widess new show Lets Get Real so turn on your AC because the kitchen is about to get real hot. Back in the day you knew the difference between junk food (candy) and food (vegetables); between food that we knew what it was (apples) and food that we didnt want to know (Twinkies). This is where Erica comes in each week to 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. This special first episode is brought to you by The Hearst Ranch.