On Let’s Get Real Chef Erica Wides 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. Incisive, pragmatic, sarcastic, and an unrepentant know-it-all when it comes to anything food, on Let’s Get Real Chef Erica Wides does the job for you of sifting out everything that’s fake in the world of food – from “foodiness” marketing and cooking show shams to “health-halo green-washing” and annoying whole-food righteousness – so you never unknowingly chow down on carpeting again.
There's nothing left to say. I've read every editorial, every FaceBook post, every HuffPo screaming front page rant. I'm done. I'm done with the election, and I'm done even discussing it, or him. He who shall not be named. I had been calling him the apricot barbarian, but you know what? I love apricots, they're delicious and pretty and when ...
Scary Clowns, Apricot-Faced Barbarians, and Gluten; Who Ya Gonna Call?
October 4, 2016
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We're all really, really scared these days. Scared for the future, scared for the planet (well, some of us), scared of scary scaring clowns scaring kids, scared of scary clowns pretending to be legit candidates...OMG, so much scariness! And it's not even Halloween yet!But even worse than all that scary stuff...is GLUTEN! Oh no, GLUTEN! The ...
It's special guest day here in the Foodiness Fallout Shelter! My new, once-in-a-while co-host, Emily Peterson, has taken time out from her busy life of cheffing, motherhood, chicken raising and occasional taxidermy to join us down here. You may know Emily from her HRN show, Sharp and Hot, but today we're doing a mini-series within my show, ...
@KarlMeltzer just broke the world record for the being fastest ever finisher of the entire Appalachian Trail, you know the Appalachian train, right? It's a 2,190 mile hiking trail that runs along the East coast of the US, from Georgia to Maine.Now, I hike, and I've done little bitty bits of it, 4-5 miles here and there, on DAY hikes. I see ...
Welcome back to the Fallout Shelter, now climate controlled by Foodiness!
September 13, 2016
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Today, on the season premiere of Let's Get Real!!!Ok, so a couple of changes are afoot here in the Foodiness Fallout Shelter. Well, no, actually the shelter is the same, I barely touched the place over the summer. It looks really great, and the biomass fuel HVAC system I built last winter is working great, too. Biomass is awesome, you guys ...
Today, on Let's Get Real...It's the extended live version of "Cod Worms and Devil Dogs"!Can't remember what that is? It's the live theater piece I did back in March. This is the extended version, that I performed on Saturday.I worked so hard on this as a live show, that I'm not ready to put it to bed yet. So all you lucky listeners get to ...
Pollen-Whacked? Maybe You Need a Shot of Lawn-Grass Juice!
June 7, 2016
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I'm hiding out down here in the fallout shelter this week. I'm safe here, since we're so deep underground and we filter our air. I can't go outside anymore, since I seem to have developed terrible seasonal allergies, all of a sudden. Twice this spring I've been hit with weeks of a sore throat, major congestion, coughing. It's not a cold, I ...
From Erica Wides:Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, in a very dark, grim place in my past...I waited tables at TGI Friday's.Yes, really. Hard to believe, I know, but I needed a job, I couldn't get hired anywhere else, and a friend got me the job. It was the early 90's, we were in a recession, I was depressed and dumpy looking, and no ...
