Podcast appearances and mentions of peter hertzmann

Peter Hertzmann has been writing about and cooking food for 5 decades. His extensive travel and teaching has led to his latest book, 50 Ways to Cook a Carrot, which uses the carrot as the humble center of a book on how to cook, not just how to cook carrots.Feast Yr Ears is powered by Simplecast.  

Hi and welcome back to another episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. Today I feature an interview with author and cookbook collector and self-proclaimed autodidactic polymath, Peter Hertzmann. Peter has been the creator, author, and illustrator of the e-zine à la carte since its inception in 1999.  He is also the author of 50 Ways to Cook a Carrot and Knife Skills Illustrated. Peter is passionate about teaching people from all walks of life the skills that will enable them to cook almost anything. His obsession and life-long interest in cooking and culinary traditions goes back to the early 1970s and for him, cooking is not just a matter of preparing recipes, it is a total immersion in all things food. As he writes in his e-zine: “I’m obsessive. All my life, when something interested me, I became obsessed with it. I learned all I could about it. I lived it!  For most of his adult life, my interest was Chinese cookery—its preparation, materials, history, politics, and culture. Besides learning all he could about Chinese food and culture, he became involved with Chinese-American organizations and studied Chinese-American food, history, and culture. He collected English-language Chinese cookbooks and eventually amassed one of the largest collections in the world. (The books are now part of the Pond-Hertzmann Collection at the University of California at Davis.) Then one fall, during an eight-day trip to Paris—his first—he had an epiphany - that he wouldn’t be able to proceed with my education unless he spent a lot of time in France and learned to at least read some French. In the following two years, he started doing just that. As he was obsessed with Chinese cookery, he is now obsessive with French cookery—its preparation, materials, history, politics, and culture. His e-zine a la carte is part of that obsession. Listen To This Episode: Apple Podcast AppStitcher Google Music PlaySpotify Things We Mention In This Episode: Peter’s website Hertzmann.com Bibliothèque Nationale de France Archive.org Google Books   Download a copy of my Cookbook Writing Roadmap   Please join our Confident Cookbook Writer Facebook Group Let’s connect on Instagram @greenapron

This episode we’re discussing Non-Fiction Food and Cooking books! We talk about the mystery of electric kettles, bodybuilding expertise, and fear of trying to make recipes that look like the pictures. Plus: Songs about bananas! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Robert Hamaker Books We Discuss This Month Geek Sweets: An Adventurer's Guide to the World of Baking Wizardry by Jenny Burgesse The Official DC Super Hero Cookbook by Matthew Mead Batman: Through the Genres The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World by Mark Pendergrast Eat Live Love Die: Selected Essays by Betty Fussell Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food by Ann Hood An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace by Tamar Adler Dirt Candy: A Cookbook: Flavor-Forward Food from the Upstart New York City Vegetarian Restaurant by Amanda Cohen,  Grady Hendrix, and Ryan Dunlavey Cook Korean!: A Comic Book with Recipes by Robin Ha Thug Kitchen: The Official Cookbook: Eat Like You Give a F*ck by Matt Holloway and Michelle Davis Protest Kitchen: Fight Injustice, Save the Planet, and Fuel Your Resistance One Meal at a Time by Carol J. Adams and  Virginia Messina Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World by Dan Koeppel Other Media We Mention The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook: They Came, They Cooked, They Left (But We Ended Up with Some Great Recipes) by Erin Ergenbright and  Thisbe Nissen The Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer,  Marion Rombauer Becker and Ethan Becker So many editions: Robert's travel copy with Marion's illustration is from 1954. He says the editions to avoid are 1962 and 1997. Coffee Isn't Rocket Science: A Quick and Easy Guide to Buying, Brewing, Serving, Roasting, and Tasting Coffee by Sébastien Racineux,  Chung-Leng Tran, Yannis Varoutsikos (Illustrations) Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley Nanny Ogg's Cookbook: A Useful and Improving Almanack of Information Including Astonishing Recipes from Terry Pratchett's Discworld by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs, Tina Hannan, and Paul Kidby How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food by Mark Bittman Knife Skills Illustrated: A User's Manual by Peter Hertzmann à la carte: the author's website Chopping Vegetables with 8-Foot-Long Knives by Simone Giertz (features chopping an oven in half) Murder in the Kitchen by Alice B. Toklas The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek by Howard Markel A Month of Sundaes by Michael Turback Knickerbocker glory The Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen The Enchanted Broccoli Forest by Mollie Katzen Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford In Pursuit of Flavor by Edna Lewis Links, Articles, and Things Cup (unit) Postum shows up in old restaurant menus and in a marketing campaign using Mr. Coffee Nerves. Search for it in New York Public Library’s historical menus. We also discuss it in Episode 029 - Westerns. Rubenstein Library Test Kitchen Goblin Sandwiches Geographical indications and traditional specialities in the European Union The Cook’s Thesaurus Yes! We Have No Bananas Louis Prima - Yes We Have No Bananas Chiquita Banana The Original Commercial Is this the bananana song? We think so… (Clearly we misheard the lyrics.) Matthew published a cooking zine called “Slugs and Spice / Sugar and Snails” for Food Not Bombs Vancouver almost ten years ago. He found a terrible scan you can look at if you’re interested. Crying in H Mart By Michelle Zauner Sobbing near the dry goods, I ask myself, “Am I even Korean anymore if there’s no one left in my life to call and ask which brand of seaweed we used to buy?” Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts, follow us on Twitter, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, September, 4th, when we’ll talk about our travel reading habits! Then come back on Tuesday, September 18th, when we’ll talk about Romance Fiction!

Peter Hertzmann is a culinary instructor and author living in San Francisco. He has travelled, cooked and written about many foods and recently returned from Japan where he photographed a lot of stoves. His writings and explorations of the history of Umami in western cooking will open your eyes to how much longer Umami has been a "thing" than you thought.

It’s hard to know what this episode is really about. Government bullying private enterprise? An evil conspiracy to crush a competitor? Confused consumers unable to read a label? All of the above? In a nutshell, on 12 August 2015 the US Food and Drug Administration sent a warning letter to Josh Tetrick, CEO of Hampton Creek Foods, informing him that two of Hampton Creek’s products: are in violation of section 403 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act) [21 U.S.C. § 343] and its implementing regulations found in Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 101 (21 CFR 101). Just Mayo and Just Mayo Sriracha are the two products, and their crime is that they do not contain eggs. So they cannot be called “mayo”. Who sicced the FDA on Hampton Creek? has become the big question, as a pile of emails winkled out of the government by a Freedom of Information Act request seem to show that the American Egg Board orchestrated a campaign against Hampton Creek. I mentioned the story in my newsletter three weeks ago, which prompted Peter Hertzmann, an independent researcher and a friend, to suggest that the reality, as ever, is not quite so straightforward. Peter was good enough to fill me in on some of the background. Notes Peter Hertzmann’s website is well worth exploring for all sorts of good things. The American Egg Board is just one of several commodity checkoff programs. There have been some very interesting challenges to the whole idea of a mandatory checkoff, one of which recently featured on BackStory, a history podcast. I did ask if I could use it, but no reply yet; you can hear the segment here, but you will need a sharper legal brain than mine to decide whether mandatory funding of something called government speech raises First Amendment concerns. What got Peter and me into the sciencey discussion of mayonnaise and emulsions was his mention of the Harvard University Science and Cooking lecture series. I’m mortified to admit that I didn’t know about it. Many of the lectures are on YouTube, and one in particular that Peter pointed me to showed Nandu Jubany from Can Jubany restaurant in Spain making an aioli from nothing but garlic, salt and olive oil, and a bit of water. You can see him do that from about 13:30 to 17:30 in this video, but the intro, on emulsions, is worth watching too if you want to a better understanding. I’m sharing, without comment, some of the AEB material obtained by Ryan Shapiro. The FDA’s letter is, of course, online. The banner image of a mayonnaise emulsion under the microscope is from a scientific paper on substituting eggs with a modified potato starch.

Peter Hertzmann is an author, instructor, blogger, historian, and occasional butcher. Today, Peter’s expertise that shines through the rest is that of knives. Linda interviews him about the origins of the chef’s knife, which actually didn’t even exist a mere 50 years ago! Tune in to hear more about how knives have evolved! This program has been sponsored by The Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board. Today’s music provided by Obey City. “If you look at the year 1855 as a dividing point…they did have steel before that, but that really made modern production of steel possible.” [13:55] “The Japanese style handle with a western style blade can be very comfortable.” [35:30] –Peter Hertzmann on A Taste of the Past

Bling, the Urban Dictionary tells me, is an onomatopoeic representation of light bouncing off a diamond. Or a Bob Kramer original hand-made chef’s knife, which goes for $2000 and up. Of course some people might be able to justify spending that kind of cash on what is, after all, one of the key tools of the trade … if your trade happens to be cooking. But my guest today, Peter Hertzmann, says he sees lots of knives, maybe not quite that expensive, hanging on the wall in people’s kitchens, unused. “Kitchen knives”, he told this year’s Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, are “the new bling”. Peter teaches knife skills, has written extensively on the topic, and one of the things he is adamant about is that you never chop, you slice. Even if you’re pretty handy with a blade, you can probably learn a thing or two from his video Three Aspects of Knife Skills. I know I did. Notes You can actually get a set of four Bob Kramer knives, plus a steel to ruin them with, for less than $2000. Intro music by Dan-O at DanoSongs.com. Outro music by Martin Simpson. And if I ever knew, I’d forgotten that the song was written by Cat Stevens.