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- 9. Of Light Mousses, Spiky Onions, and Cakey Apocalypse
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July 12, 2020
History: origins of the mousse
Ingredients: the onion. The FODMAP diet. Lachrymatory properties.
Fining and Honing Your Knives
How to Cut an Onion
"As Above, So Below". Philosophy of culinary science.
An Earthly Apocalypse: story of a failed cake
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To learn more, visit http://www.projecthopeandfairness.org31 min - 8. Food and the Industrial Revolution
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June 27, 2020
The Industrial Revolution is often said to be made of three parts: the steam engine, the Bessemer blast furnace, and the silicon wafer. However, underpinning these three technologies is a great wealth of modifications in the diet necessary to feed the worker. The rise of sugar as a cheap source of calories, the use of food additives to preserve and make food more palatable, the use of the chicken as a great filter to consume lots of waste products and produce edible meat are just a few examples of what is covered in this article.
SECTION ON PH&F: news about the African Chocobar.
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To learn more, visit http://www.projecthopeandfairness.org28 min - 7. PH&F Progress
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June 18, 2020
David's New Machine: David Logbo Zigro went to Abidjan to pick up the newest melangeur.
The African Chocobar: description. Comments about pricing.
The Peruvian Connection: the very beginning of PH&F
Kuapa Kokoo: Fair Trade cooperative located in Kumasi, Ghana
2003--first trip to Ghana
Food Fact: why are some fish oilier than another? Why are some white and others red? The nature of fish oils.
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To learn more, visit http://www.projecthopeandfairness.org31 min - 6. History of PH&F, part 2; Other Treats
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June 4, 2020
HISTORY OF GHANA: importance of gold trade, slave trade; Tetteh Quarshie, the man who introduced cacao to continental Africa.; Kwame N'Kruma
HISTORY OF CAMEROON: origin of name, German influence, Western Cameroonians, President Biya, Northern Cameroon and Boko Haram, formation of Amazonia, biggest exports, polarization of North vs South.
WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR, FAIR TRADE, & FREE TRADE
FOOD FACTS: proscription of white food. Reverend Sylvester Graham's influence. Effects of diet on prevalence of diabetes. Honey as digested sucrose.
FOOD ADDITIVES: Center for Science in the Public Interest. Glyphosate, antibiotics in our food.
TWO CULINARY ERRORS Tom "surprises" a steak; Tom puts glace in the melon, not glaçons.
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To learn more, visit http://www.projecthopeandfairness.org39 min - 5. More About Cocoa Sustainability
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May 29, 2020
Sections from my book, "A History of Project Hope and Fairness"
- Six motivating facts for writing the book, and for my thoughts about cocoa sustainability.
- Six important events that influenced my way of thinking about how to solve problems with cocoa sustainability.
- History of Ivory Coast.
Ingredients--what is bread flour? all-purpose? pastry?
History: How did chocolate become popular in Europe?
Troubleshooting: The Story of Goofy Bastard
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To learn more, visit http://www.projecthopeandfairness.org31 min - 4. The Story of Padmore Cobbina, Part 2. Thoughts on Cocoa Sustainability
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May 21, 2020
We continue with Padmore’s extraordinary adventure. In this part, we start on the bubble boat, continue to a camp near Foggia, visit a man in Naples who forges a document that would allow him to leave Italy. Padmore meets Tolva, moves in with her. They get married and then Padmore flies back to Ghana in order to legalize his status and to see his sons.
The Most Important Project of My Life: PH&F. Thoughts on how to make cocoa growing a sustainable occupation.
Food thoughts: how to hard-boil an egg.
Food history: origins of American cereals
Troubleshooting: how to keep green vegetables green.
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To learn more, visit http://www.projecthopeandfairness.org31 min - 3. The Story of Padmore Cobbina--Part 1
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May 13, 2020
Padmore left Ghana in 2018, crossed the Mediterranean in a flimsy balloon boat, lived in Italy, and eventually ended up living in Malmö, Sweden and ended up marrying a Swedish woman who went to his church. This is his story.
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To learn more, visit http://www.projecthopeandfairness.org31 min - 2. History of PH&F, Yeast, Baguettes, and Meat cookery
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May 4, 2020
We start this episode with a brief history of Project Hope and Fairness. Then we talk about the use of yeast to leaven breads and pastries and to produce alcohol. Remarks about the history of the baguette. Meat cookery and moisture loss: the roles of myoglobin, sauces, pH alteration and sealing in the juices.
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To learn more, visit http://www.projecthopeandfairness.org29 min - 1. Introduction
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May 3, 2020
Today's podcast answers the following questions:
- Why write a podcast?
- What is my background?
- What is Project Hope and Fairness? What does it do?
- What is baking powder? Single-acting vs double-acting
- When to use baking soda and baking powder.
- History of canning. Botulism. The 12-D cook.
- Mayonnaise--a mixture of phases with an emulsifier. How to make. Whisks.
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To learn more, visit http://www.projecthopeandfairness.org29 min - TOM’S PODCAST #57: LIBERTE, LIBERTAD, FREIHEIT—THREE LINGUISTIC PATHWAYS TO FREEDOM
In today's podcast, I focus on examples of loss of liberty. The first is JS Bach being imprisoned for having the effrontery of asking his employer to let him go so he could seek a more lucrative employment elsewhere. It’s shocking that one of the world’s greatest musicians was considered to be property. Of course NO ONE should be considered to be property! A friend of his, a mere horn player, was hung for a similar infraction.
120 years later, Chopin spent a honeymoon on the island of Majorca with his new wife, George Sand. Both of them were combining a honeymoon with holding good on promises to publishers—she on a book in progress and he on a collection of 24 preludes. They spent several months living in a scary monastery high in the mountains partly because Chopin was suffering from TB, which the locals interpreted as an example of how sin leads to disease, the result being a loss of liberty for Chopin and Sand.
The third example of loss of liberty deals with how cacao symbolized power in the four Central American societies—of the Olmecs, the Toltecs, the Mayans and the Aztecs. Later, when Cortez brought cacao back to Spain, it came to symbolize power there as well with a loss of liberty for the Jewish doctors living in Bayonne, France, where they established cacao as an important local industry. During the Industrial Revolution, cacao became an important foodstuff for factory workers and in order to provide it, the colonial powers forced West Africans to provide them with inexpensive beans. The result was the use of child labor, five forms of which are described.
I start the podcast with Bach’s Prelude number 8 in E-Flat Minor and I finish with Chopin’s Prelude #14 in the same key. Bach’s prelude was written in a prison cell. Chopin’s was written in a monastery cell. Both are examples of a loss of liberty.
As always, we are looking to help African cocoa farmers become African chocolate makers. Join the revolution by donating to the cause!
1. Go to www.projecthopeandfairness.org and click on the Donate button. -OR-
2. Send a check to: Donations, PH&F, 1298 Warren Road, Cambria, CA 93428.
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