Musings on Food

I want a recount.

This contest is rigged!

Boo!

Pure Gold man!!!

Love ya

Saw you made the popular list! Nice job.

--Mo

& I love this entry!!!

Awesome.

The Food/Family connection needs to be re-instituted... We lost it w/ too much take-out/delivery.

-(;o)~

http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/1138

With the right ingredients, too. Great voice, nice pace and well produced. Hope to find out what others are having for dinner.

Mike Wright

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Be kind, it took longer than necessary...

http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/1808

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As a foodie and fellow urban-refugee-living-in-the-country, I related to this. Also liked the quality of his voice and the people he interviewed.

Shel Horowitz - Host/Producer, Principled Profit: The Good Business Radio show (WXOJ, Northampton, MA) - Founder, Business Ethics Pledge - a worldwide campaign to prevent future Enron scandals at http://www.business-ethics-pledge.org
Award-winning author

a recipe for greatness

How fun!

really great use of interview clips! that was just really enjoyable to listen to, and would make a great show.

http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/2057

I agree this sounds very professionally done. Even more impressive since it is your first piece! Not only well delivered and written, but even the timing of the background music and the flow of the interview cues. Great!

The topic is great, too. I have been hearing more about the growing movement for eating locally and your discussion would seem to fit along those lines.

Very pro delivery and production, and manages to be both amusing and thoughtful at the same time. Best line: "I was raised on a farm in Wisconsin by hippies--this was not as precious as it sounds."

A show on where food comes from would be great. (And I'm volunteering now to provide a short segment on where wine comes from...)

I wouldn't think a show on the "origins of food" would interest me very much, but you clearly have some compelling skills behind the mic! I enjoyed the prospect of those interviews, and the way you tied those things to your personal life made for a great submission! I definitely enjoyed this and would LOVE to hear more.
Good luck to you! Try mine?

Be Baffled By Bafflegab!-->
www.publicradioquest.com/node/1319

"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy" - Spike Milligan

I know you in person, Adam. So, I feel like some kind of shill here. But, here I am nonetheless. I have to say, I'm impressed. Your piece was engaging, yet light and approachable. It was personal but not egotistical. As someone else said, it sounded just like something one would hear on NPR.

Even though, I've known you for several years, I just learned a lot about you from listening to this. I'm not into food like you are. I wasn't raised like that (and I see how that may have made all the difference). And yet, hearing Umpleby say in your sound bite interview of him that everyone should learn how to make bread tickled something in me. I'd like to learn to make bread from scratch. So, perhaps there's some hope for the hopeless like me. Your piece got through to me.

The bass line background worked nicely and the quick interviews you laid in gave a wonderful flavor and richness to your piece (despite the brutal time limit). I can really see (and hear) that you have a knack for radio.

Your voice and your story were both engaging. I really enjoyed listening.

Valerie
I'm a music junkie
http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/1856

Amazing voice, great story. I wanna hear more of you!! Good luck. :)

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Please listen, then vote and comment if you are willing, to my 2 minutes of funk (sans funk)
http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/805

I thought I was actually listening to NPR. You nailed it, baby.

Howdy Adam,

I'm glad to see you posted your entry with an hour to spare (and that I was able to find it!) It sounds good, you have a good voice and I like the music bed. Best of luck.

If you haven't already, please visit
http://www.publicradioquest.com/audio/user/6702

Thanks!

--Mo

Good essay. I can relate to your topic, my whole family plans their day around food.

DJAlisha
http://www.publicradioquest.com/audio/user/2097

Thoroughly enjoyed your piece. A food show with periodic essays by food-obsessed literati is something I'd listen to. Nice work, and good luck!

Courtenay

Another grandma + food story! No, this is not a diss -- I love it! You should listen to Shannonh's "The Quickest Way to the Heart is through the Stomach." She's great, also. And yes, my entry also features my grandmother with a cameo of her green jello salad (she breaks the stereotype -- cooking was not her strongpoint. Grandpa was the chef in the family.)Anyway, you have a really great entry here. I really connected to your voice, and your intimate and profound perspective on food. The bass thumping rhythmically the background was also a very nice touch. Good job. Hope to hear more from you!

elizabeth
news director
morning host/producer
kisu 91.1 fm pocatello, idaho

Nice work, Adam! You sound great, and I love the background music. Ah, I remember when I saw my first artichoke plant, what a surprise...

Adam,

Food is central to the good life, and eating an examined life is so akin to living the examined life. I think I understand your message and exemplify it in mine. I bet you can really relate to a movie like "Eat Drink Man Woman" (1994).

Two things I would ask of you. Seek out the other foodies here at the Quest. Join the Food Guild. And listen to my submission.

Steve

No one should, look back with regret on all that they never did: the beauties they did not see, the music they did not hear, the flavors they did not taste, the aromas they did not inhale, the sensations they did not feel.