Let's Get Real

Why are Americans so afraid to eat horse? This week on Lets Get Real, Erica Wides is talking about the trendiness of meat, and falsehoods in the industrial food system. Would horse meat be a problem if it werent hidden in microwavable lasagna? Erica thinks not! Later, tune in to hear Erica talk about the invasion of tattooed and moustachioed butchers in Brooklyn and beyond. Why has working with real food become an identity marker? Shouldnt eating food be the norm? Erica wraps up the show by explaining how foodiness has infiltrated vegetarian and vegan food and made it wholly unhealthy! This episode has been brought to you by Cain Vineyard and Winery. While nobody is up in arms about the pesticides, estrogen, antibiotics, or cancer-causing artificial colors and flavors intentionally put in our food, everyone is up in arms, or hooves, that food has been found in our food. [6:00] -- Erica Wides on Lets Get Real

Will anyone stop the 7-Eleven invasion of the East Village? This week on Lets Get Real, Erica Wides is talking with two activists from the No 7-Eleven group, Bob Holman and Rob Hollander. Tune into this episode to find out how gentrification and foodiness are intertwined in the case of the 7-Eleven infestation in Downtown Manhattan. How is corporate control of neighborhoods related to the corporate influence in food? 7-Elevens infiltration of the East Village and the Lower East Side undermines decades of rich cultural history. Dont become a victim of foodiness; tune into Lets Get Real. This episode has been sponsored by Cain Vineyard and Winery. To Pringle-ize is to force conformity and stick humans in a tube for easier shipping. [9:15] -- Bob Holman on Lets Get Real

Dieticians are in bed with Foodiness, Incorporated! Erica Wides is once again joined in the studio by nutrition expert Kristin Wartman to talk about her recent article in Civil Eats about big foods influence on The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Hear how companies like Coca-Cola and General Mills fund nutrition studies on sugar and processed food. Doesnt that just seem like a conflict of interest? Kristin spoke with a dietician employed by Sodexo off the record; hear how a food professional deals with the contradictions of health and foodiness? Later, Erica challenges Kristin to a game of foodiness truth-or-dare! This program has been sponsored by Whole Foods. People whose jobs it is to look out for peoples health are...for sale? [7:00] -- Erica Wides on Lets Get Real Theres nothing whole about whole grain cereal. Its highly processed! [11:20] -- Kristin Wartman on Lets Get Real

Propaganda creates reality. Foodiness exists because we continue to consider it real food. Erica is here to continue in her quest to destroy all things foodiness, and convince listeners that real food is real food - and nothing else. Tune in for an exploration into the stranglehold Hollywood and television has on our decision making when it comes to food, and find out how her appearance on Dr. Oz helped move things just so slightly in the direction of whats right. This program was sponsored by Cain Vineyard and Winery. You cant have art without enduring suffering. [7:30] The turnip growers of America arent sponsoring shows like the Biggest Loser or The Voice - foodiness companies are. [11:30] Yogurt is a living thing. If you powder it - its not yogurt anymore. [19:30] -- Erica Wides on Lets Get Real

Todays Lets Get Real is all about fake food nutrition- stuff like enhanced peanut butter and low-fat dairy. Well, Erica Wides is here to tell you that these products are not food! Joining Erica in the studio is a nutrition educator Kristin Wartman, and shes on the show to debunk the mythology of foodiness nutrition. Learn about the differences between Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids, and why skim milk cannot be considered a whole food. Hear about some food products that are some of the biggest culprits of false foodiness nutrition! This episode has been sponsored by Cain Vineyard and Winery. Foodiness has robbed us of nutrition and replaced it with nutrition... because this is radio you have to imagine the air quotes Im putting over the word. [2:05] -- Erica Wides on Lets Get Real Big food corporations and advertising have done a great job convincing people that these foodiness foods are what we should be eating. [11:25] Yogurt is a live food. You cant put it in a cereal. [22:05] -- Kristin Wartman on Lets Get Real

The apocalypse is imminent! What- or should I say who- are you going to eat? Erica Wides is back with another episode of Lets Get Real to teach you how to survive the end of times. Hear how the apocalypse will eliminate the irony from Brooklyn rooftop farming, and why its better to eat a pigeon than a rat. Looking to make a reservation at the Foodiness Fall-Out Shelter? Hear what skills are necessary to learn in an post-apocalyptic New York City. New York has been hit with storms and blackouts, but are the citys residents really ready for Rapture? Find out this episode of Lets Get Real! This program has been sponsored by Cain Vineyard and Winery. Foodiness takes care of what you eat for you so you dont know how it came to be! [15:20] -- Erica Wides on Lets Get Real

Are you ready for week two of Foodiness Reeducation Camp? Do you have what it takes? Well then get in line and tune into this weeks episode of Lets Get Real. This week at camp, listeners live in a world where food is not a product. Breakfast is tiny and meat must be hunted. The raspberries arent flavored, they taste like.... raspberries! There are no garden burgers or vegan lasagna. The veggies are not made into chips and there are no protein bars. By the time youre de-programmed, youll never mistake foodiness for food again! This program was sponsored by Cain Vineyard and Winery. Nowhere in history of dystopian science fiction have the words apocalypse and vegan been put together. 10:15 Foodiness doesnt go bad, because it was never good in the first place. 13:00 --Erica Wides on Lets Get Real

Are you the right kind of person? Lucky for you, Erica Wides is here to sign you up for a session at Foodiness Reeducation Camp! Are you getting hungry after Ericas boot camp regiment? Well, Foodiness Reeducation Camp only serves real food in its cafeteria, so you better be hungry for rabbit legs and greens! Breakfast will consist of real, organic oatmeal... with no artificial sweeteners! After breakfast, you will be helping build a stone wall to keep out the GE Monsanto militia! Re-train your palate to forget the fake fruit-corn syrup flavors youve known since birth! This episode has been brought to you by Tabard Inn. If youre hungry, you better eat what youre given. Thats part of reeducation... and part of maturity. [17:20] Foodiness is everywhere- even in your bath products! [30:00] -- Erica Wides on Lets Get Real

This week on Lets Get Real, Erica is talking about her favorite non-secular, genocide-filled holiday: Thanksgiving! But Thanksgiving has really changed since the days of The Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. Foodiness has co-opted another American tradition, and Erica is here to tell you what food to steer clear of on your familys Thanksgiving table. How will Erica survive this years Thanksgiving on Long Island- the bastion of foodiness? Fight the power, and have real food this Thanksgiving! This program has been brought to you by Cain Vineyard and Winery If you cant bash your Republican relatives in the media, then whats the point of being a part of the liberal elite? [28:20] -- Erica Wides on Lets Get Real

How does foodiness relate to wine? Friend of the show and sponsor of the network, Christopher Howell of Cain Vineyard and Winery in Napa Valley joins Erica Wides for this weeks episode of Lets Get Real. Learn what goes into making real wine - from fermentation to organic or biodynamic grapes and everything in between. Chris and Erica discuss scale of production, ingredient labeling, regulation, and authenticity as they relate to wine - and dispel many common myths. Get real about whats in your glass on this weeks episode of Lets Get Real! This program has been sponsored by HeritageRadioNetwork.org. The real funny thing about wine is that even if you are the size of coca cola everybody wants to trade on the idea of Mom and Pops in the vineyards crushing grapes. [12:00] Some of the smallest scale wines are the highest controlled. Its all about needing to be known. [20:00] The idea that there should be no control and no thought would imply that theres no cooking in the kitchen!. [24:00] Natural wine is wines contribution to the raw food world. [25:00] In order for wine to be real - the key is going to be providence. [27:00] If you think the wine is trying to be cool - perhaps its the least likely to be something that hasnt been manipulated. [30:00] -- Christopher Howell on Lets Get Real