Welcome to the new Chefsmartypants.com, the home of Chef and Culinary Educator, Erica Wides. Please browse our media sections and listen to some of Erica’s radio clips from appearances on Martha Stewart Morning Living with Kim and Betsy. Or watch some of her TV appearances. We’re building more content, so check back periodically. And don’t forget to check out Erica’s own radio show, Why We Cook, on Heritage Radio. It airs live on Tuesdays at 6:30 PM, but archives of past shows are available online as well.
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Last month I shot 3 instructional videos on Thai cooking for about.com, here’s a link to the first one posted.
http://video.about.com/thaifood/Traditional-Tom-Yum-Soup.htm
[ Read More → ]Eric Rochow is a very cool guy from Brooklyn, who contacted me after listening to my ”Why We Cook” episode on cabbage and fermentation. Not to be confused of course with last week’s episode on kombucha and fermentation!
Eric has a great blog and web radio/tv show called Garden Fork, which is full of all kinds of interesting things about food, cooking, gardening, home repairs, beekeeping…basically everything that I love too!
He is also interested in fermentation (but who isn’t?) and wanted to chat. He asked me to do an interview on …
[ Read More → ]Darren Atkins, of dmanburger fame (www.dmanburger.wordpress.com) and a writer for insidefandb.com, did a great piece on the benefit we had in March for Streets International. He also wrote some very nice things about me!
here’s the link
http://insidefandb.com/2010/05/for-the-vietnam’s-poorest-streets-international-gives-them-a-future/
Thanks, D-Man!
[ Read More → ]A few weeks ago I was a guest on The Mindkitchen, a virtual cooking competition show on Heritage Radio. It was pretty freaking funny. If you listen, make sure to listen to the very end of the last segment, after the music.
http://www.heritageradionetwork.com/archives?search=mindkitchen&x=0&y=0
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This photo was taken last summer, so it’s a little old. But it’s just so cool. She is posed next to what remains of a tree, covered with Laetiporus Sulphureus—chicken of the woods mushrooms.
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