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"Just change your eating behavior if you knew how many minutes would be shaved off your life based upon certain consumption as compared to other consumption which would actually add minutes to your life expectancy. Apparently the biggest thing this study that can add to your life expectancy is sardines tomato minutes. Yeah i don't like sardines. Would you eat them with tomato sauce for anyone to add sardines tomato sauce but adds eighty one minutes. Your life i mean i usually. I usually take your sardine jim. Caesar salad honesty's did last night. Actually i had a great caesar salad and i poured a can of rows on top of it which was rather odd but it extended my life one. Eighty one minute okay. You change it with by the way. Would you change your i. I cannot believe is the biggest peanut butter fan in the world and jelly peanut par gel. Well i should be even better. Because i do peanut butter and fernandez. You know. that's my standard fare. Banana sandwiches supposed to have on whole grain bread and It's really gonna eat peanut butter all day long. I have all sorts of different. Kind of peanut. Butter gone through phases. you know. Peanut bars like the trader joe's peanut butter. Jim hitch remember to turn it upside down your refrigerator. Why does an cost three. Take three minutes off your life teen. I think it's the cholesterol colossal. Yeah but our margin takes two minutes. That's not that bad. It's not as bad as the hotdog cured meats cured meats very bad twenty five minutes of your life and seeds and legumes. Those robbery could frisia. Okay well let's take some calls. Eight seven seven three zero one eighty nine seventy by the way you can print out. I didn't do it yet. But i'm gonna do it. You can print out all. I think it's fifty five hundred individual foods and the number of pluses and minuses. They will mean in your existence of you consume consumes. You put them on the wall and you're all set and they're also talking about the environmental impact. We know that beef is not so good for your environment because I don't even know why it's beef so bad for the environment you know well. Part of it is an corby always makes us porn. Corby kummer it. It's what comes out of the mouth not the other end of the methane burping disobey the burping. You also also land lance. That's it that's a that's a big thing. Okay on the road. Your first on boston public right. Tell the truth. would you change your eating behavior. If you knew that hot dog was gonna lose your thirty six minutes. I think i would because i i used to be a heavy smoker smoker. I smoked for years and When i realized it was taken on me and my in my house And this was before. I had kids. I decided to stop just because and i love smoke but i wish i could have cigarette right now to be honest..
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"For jim rowdy and joining us line of the latest policies at the intersection of food police. An industry food policy in industry. I think that is is corby kummer. He's zecca director of the food and society policy program with the aspen institute is senior editor at the atlantic and senior lecturer at the tufts friedman school nutrition science and policy. Hello corby i am not a member of. Oh yes you are. We're all members of the food. I knew you're going to say that disappointed food policy and industry dying to talk to you. Say i you know. I spend a lotta time. There's a there's a dollar store right near gbh when you can run in the air for like cheap little decorations and cheap little cups and glasses and this kind of stuff. I did not realize that. Dollar trees and dollar generals are taking over america. There's more than than walmart starbucks and mcdonald's combined and this washington post piece says is has a lot to do with the haves and the have nots and the great divide between us. Although i'm not a have not happily. And i bet it off time there myself. Go even even though. I have been railing against dollar tree. Stores as usa Preying on the poor with inflated prices and ever decreasing portions and. I still feel that. What really surprised me about this. Long washington post piece was the number of people with lower incomes who rely on dollar stores. And don't say i mean one of them said. I used to get six batteries in a pack. Now i get five but the pernicious aspect in there are so many about dollar stores. Is that bill. Keep the prices consistent and they'll constantly shrink the portions inside so in will be named brands. But you don't notice because it's like one ounce than two ounces less than you were getting before and we've been seek complaints in this piece it was. I don't have other options in my neighborhood. I am able to afford frequent frequent uneconomical bad overpriced visits to the dollar store but people feel they can do that and not one guy was a very eloquent saying i used to be able to go to kroger and spend one hundred twenty five dollars every two weeks for my family of four and prices are going up. My income is going in the wrong direction. I can't do that anymore. So i've got to rely on dollar stores in my neighborhood. So it's a complex and really upsetting story but you know as soon as you see dollar generals profit up thirty two percent from pre pandemic levels. They're really making out gouging. The poor what what is it. Show us about the resources that are available when we know that food insecurity is increasing. We've seen the huge lines at food pantries. And yet people still resort to the the dollar general in dollar stores for their basic nutrition needs. Because as you say they can't have. They've made hard choice to no longer go to supermarket and only a tiny fraction of them. Sell anything fresh so it. It's not fresh very lucky if you can get a little bag of mini carrots. But that's very rare in these stores. Its processed food. it's high in sodium. It's high in fat. It's opportunity good for you. In a number of people interviewed. say perfectly. Well they know it's not good for you but they can't afford and don't have time to go to supermarket so is also you know the expression in food police circles is now swamps not food deserts and it's exactly these kinds of stores with.
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"But apparently you can garden and space you can grow basil and cauliflower and peppers and peas and meant etcetera etcetera etcetera. So tell us about this. I love this idea so all on an aunt. Arctic isolation research myers station in antarctica. Is extra ice shelf. Here is right now. A test of the sixty four days that ten members of a winter crew that over winter's like turnips they over winter. A cook doctor. Eight engineers and researchers. They don't see the some for the entire winter humbly through grow lights and seeds and hydroponic indoor controlled environment methods. I spent months doing a piece on vertical farm. Every food writer is done. Vertical arming research. It's indoor farming. There's huge amounts venture capital behind it. But on a meeting many scale you can put them in these research stations and not only are the researchers say so how is their dietary measures. Because they're having some fresh produce in the research station on the extra ice shelf but hauer their brain scans for well being. What's their emotional improvement by being in touch with plants and working inside the mini mini greenhouse and having living things under their hair. Of course they're going to be greatly benefited. I think it's a wonderful experiment. The idea is to prove that this is worth doing and it really greatly increases these people in isolation chambers or space station Research the larger question will be. Does this significantly improve their diets and can we rely on it. Adequately that will send people on space stations with less food because we know this will reliably produce food. That's the next step but it's a wonderful research now. How does this improve your mental state as well as your biometric health workers and it does right. Well i'm sure it does the this. The results are in intuitively. We all want it to be. The most vast improvement helped me respect. I already saw mad team and do this. You know so i know. I know they're trying to do this in antarctica. But i saw matt damon to it a couple of years ago. He grow potato. What did he grow on mars mars. Yeah i i'm not sure. It improved his mental health. Though i don't think it ended well if memory serves well. He came home. I i don't think we want to go into how we doing. This was a fictional portrayal. Phil. that's right. I get so confused now. Time blurs film blurs. No but this is great news especially there soon corby. We did have some good news. That's very good. We got the reminder from karen about the healthy incentives program for snap more money for people who don't have enough money for food and gardening in in the antarctic right so and surprise bags all good things like price benefits every month dance in the streets. Everybody is a huge achievement. Federally okay corby. Thank you very much. Your your background is very nice. They're very nice trees. They're very very plain center of the universe advice. Talk soon thank you. Thank you so much corby. Kummer is.
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"And i have to say that i'm really lucky. The overwhelming majority of our customers. A really cool You know the the horrible ones are few and far enough in between that there's still anecdote rather than the norm through But I i think in in what i've seen i think you know. And i hate to generalize. People in air quotes are so frustrated. And i about the obvious about so many things and and people in the service industry or an easy target. Yeah yeah. They weren't inclined to be that way before they wanna take their frustration out on somebody and somebody that they're only going to see for in in my case because i'm i'm takeout only for three minutes a group or a waiter or waitress in a restaurant where you're only going to see them for an hour there. They just happened to be an easy target. But people in the restaurant business If there are any good at it are used to adapting and hiding things that might be going on in the back of the house. You know you don't you don't wind to your customers about deliveries or about you know stuff that that they don't even the back But it's gotten to a point where it's contributing to the angst in the restaurant business so much that this severe supply chain so it's not only workers in restaurants National distributors can only send out forty or fifty percent of their deliveries every day. Yeah the truck problem right. Yeah yeah we talked about With corby kummer just the other day. It's not just you as you know it's happening everywhere it's horrible. It's horrible so are you. So you said through the years the sixty years of your family's been in the business you've seen this only anecdotally at the as the pandemic is wound down. Has there been an uptick in this. Or you've been among the luckier ones. We are we are truly very very lucky. And it's not because we're takeout. Only i mean we had a full service restaurant for fifty years that we closed A little less than ten years ago. And i've been doing takeout only since then so i really can't complain and i it really anecdotal the horrible people but i have so many friends who are in. The restaurant is this who are the majority of their time. Now is spent trying to adapt and trying to hide What's going on in the fact that the house yet prices are going to go out and people who are already inclined to be jerks. That's just going to give them another. Hey jj do you want to say the name of your business. If you choose. Yes i'd love to. Thanks we're christos to go in whitman. Mass and we used to be christos in brockton for fifty years. Gravy is christos. ggv thanks. I'm reading as as judy was talking. I was reading a piece of the story that occurred. That was run ran at the time. That this this polar cave ice cream. Ashby had to put cones by appointment. Only the guy who owns this place. Remember seeing him on..
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"I wish they would. Then there's going to be states like montana and we won't feel safe traveling around the country on that happy note corby. It's great to talk to you. Always you look good to be with corby. Corby kummer joins us regularly. He's executive director of the food and society policy program with the aspen institute. A senior editor at.
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"Welcome back to boston public radio. Jim brady and jared bone. If you're just tuning in we're talking to corby kummer about the desiccated workplace apple at the atlantic. There's a story in the magazine about an apple was left behind and everybody vacated the office to work from home a year later that apple was still there and granted according to the writer looked a little bit. More like a prune but out of curiosity. the atlantic's rachel gudmund along with two or three other colleagues eight it here. Gbh the way we've we've been put to a similar test. There is a twinkie. this is true in the newsroom. That is apparently ten years old but has lost its golden sheen shrunken down about half its size. Though the temptation to eat it is strong. At least with like me jared. We haven't broken into yet because probably still has a couple of good years left so any case re using this as an opportunity to ask you. How far are you willing to push an expiration date. How old is too old. Are you to scrape some spores of mold off a piece of bread corby said. Do you trust that gallon of milk. If it expired a few days ago what about the workplace. Do you find yourself eating things in the office fridge that you'd never deign to eat in your normal life. The numbers eight seven seven three zero one eight nine seventy my notion. It's a simple rule that i live by. If it doesn't talk back to totally serious and by the way. I would have cut off the mold off. A loaf of bread headquarters not said that there was a problem and one of these people if it says used by x. which every smart person knows is. Bs you will not use it in an shaking my head. No of course. I'll use it. Actually i'm among the people who would take the mold off the bread to. I didn't realize that until corby just educated me although i probably have so much mold and penicillin in me now that this is why i haven't gotten a cold forget covert. I haven't gotten a cold and in two years because i- moldy bread. Apparently would you would you really. I'm being totally sincere. Eat a bite of that apple into what are you worried about. What do you think is going to happen to you. For some reason. I had a really strong scent reaction just seeing that picture and it just makes it right now. I can't believe we're going to do twenty minutes on this guy twenty in the newsroom. I'm not a big fan of his but if you're hungry and there was no other snack. twinkie no because that was described very accurately. I saw the show. The sheen has gone off the twinkie. This mummified white former cake representative of twinkie by the way mackenzie colleague says there. Youtube channels. Didn't know this that. His great dedicated views fifties repeat nineteen fifties. Eric canned foods and seeing if they are still the numbers. Eight seven seven. Three zero one. Eight hundred seventy by the way. This is one of these things where i think we're supposed to say our lawyers say make sure you speak to your local scientists before you do this but i there is. There is really nothing unless there is mold staring me in the face. There is nothing i will not let me repeat that since you asked there is nothing. I will not eat if i am hungry. Period end of discussion now. Those dates are completely arbitrary. I i just said you know what i forgot to if i came across kansas spam of course i would eat that from one thousand nine hundred eighty s. How about can do anything. Well well. Yeah because you've you've kind of again if you open the can talking to you then probably should just put it away and by the way the only thing my understanding and again. I'm not speaking from a. I'm not a scientist to sound like margarita. I'm not a scientist. I think it's the biggest problem. Is that people say lose. It's flavor like to freeze hamburger. I think for six months or whatever it is and after six months. It doesn't isn't go bad on you. It just loses the intensity of its flavors. I mean come on everybody and just go for need the damn apple seven seven three zero one. Eight hundred seventy sent him. Sorry if it's got teeth or hair to when you open the jar that you should probably not eat it okay. How about a candy bar in the newsroom. And then we'll get to the calls that is covered. He can't see inside. Unlike the twinkie thing. You're starving you're alone in the newsroom. Most people working at home. You know the candy bar for example on his desk our colleague and friend so on her desk you know it's been there least fourteen months because she hasn't been other than to do in our under to hear forty months. We did that well. There wouldn't be any. Because i ate them all after about the second month that nobody was there. I was here speaking of the candy bars. Where did all the chocolate candy bars. I'm in the studio today. We're all the ones you generous. They're given to us by our fine friends. The door people at the lenox who are just wonderful. I got one and there are none leftover. That's my you wouldn't was two days old. I think my friend aria. I believe i pronounce that right. I hope i didn't east bridgewater. Welcome to the show. How are you yep. thank you first time caller. Thank you i apple story for you to your apples grow. So i spent many years even france southern france and I thought you might like to know that. It's not uncommon there for the locals to buy apples by the crate. When they're in season at the farmer's market and then they store them in their cellars and for as long as they last might last year they buy multiple crate and over the period of the year they shrivel just like that apple you described until they look like teeny tiny prunes. But i will tell you the reason they do. This is because those in season still tastes better albeit their texture changes a bit but they still tastes better than store. Bought apple bought that day. Because of you waste sample these at southern france. I ate those apples. Never had a problem never known anyone to have a problem. Sorry what do you think about squeamish. Person like let's say. I don't know jared bowen for example. He was living in the south of france with you would not have tasted. That shrunken apple. Well i think you might get a little bit of a haughty look from a local. Whoever is serving eluding. But if you're gonna go that tip he might wanna abscond from the Cheeses as well. you know. Because they're ten times. Well that's actually want. Because i love those. Jesus smellier the better. I love those dot dot. Because you're culturally trained. You have learned. Today are okay. You should be hosting the segment not us. Let me tell you that was a great first call. Do another one soon call again soon. How about that jarred. You're living inside your like a southern france kind of guy you living in southern france and they're a bunch of shrunken apples in your basement. Changes everything already them. Totally eat them. Because it's part of the cultural thing because it hasn't been sitting on a desk in an office with the sun boring down on it and you have to look for little. Make sure it doesn't have worms or mold or fungi. Which apparently this apple ensure there's there's an easy answer to this question on barris that oh no it. So don't write me. How about the cheese thing that area just mentioned we all eat cheese with mold on it in it. Why is that okay. I don't mean just for you for all wise that okay just because it tastes. Good wrong with eating mold is there. I don't know maybe the the lawyer isn't any upfront and moment stuff. Talking stop talking. Jared do not amanda. You're in providence. In boston.
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"Julian julia had a last thing in the smithsonian exhibit. Wear they put in a sort of cardboard version of meryl streep is illegal and it comes to life. So you know it's wonderful that it's been it's right there in a movie but you can just go on the mall thinks reopening may twenty-first smithsonian reopening date. And you can be in julia's kitchen. So jared you can revisit the day before yes well. Yeah and i just remember it being real kitchen to. She magnets on the refrigerator. I remember being really tempted to take one of the knowing that they were going. It was supposed to go to the smithsonian the next day i think there was one from king arthur flower. I remember. she had lots of cats stuff around. I think the only thing that isn't original is the stove which i think if memory serves. Her nephew was going to her nephew or something but it was a real kitchen. She really lived there. It was her life. You know. I feel like i now have to add my julia child story. I think. hold corby. But maybe i haven't is when i was a city councillor for my One term around the two thousand there was a dinner. Dinner At cambridge rindge and latin around the cool culinary program and when i got there once in line at star market for like thirty seconds i was seated at the table on the other side and her aide said to me. Could you sit next to ms child. And i was so excited because i figure all they want me to sit and it turns out i said why are you asking 'cause i assume she'd say she's a big fan of mine and the woman said well she to sit next to and talk to people with the voices so that sort of blew that away. Some sitting next to julia child almost too nervous a conversation even though she's incredibly personable and the mayor at the time is sitting on her other side. And i hear him saying tur- so julia ever used the george foreman grill. Anything george and she was so polite. And so you know ruth. She was so sweet even though i'm guessing that she hadn't and she was. I mean i'll tell you. She was so accessible and such so much but that was actually completely question. That was just the kind of things she loved engaging with because she was so anti snob gene was so. This is the way we do it. In america we are completely not a french snobs even though she believed strongly in technique and discipline and rigor that was different from aping some other culture. She would love that while she did. And so and then she handled it beautifully and by the way. The one supermarket bumped into her without Disparaging sube margaret in town. Was maybe the crummier supermarket in cambridge. I mean a total dump and who's ahead of me in line that dump it The great julia child was just a few blocks sweetly anti snob and accessible. And we're called. She picked up the phone and listened her phone number and when people had just answered their questions. I'd love the total return on corby kummer. Corby i'm sorry to end with this. But there's kind of revolting story but super fascinating about an apple that was left in somebody's office. You can tell us for how long what became of it but during the pandemic thought about the food that we left behind the things that were left behind. But what happens with if you leave an apple in the office for all time before you even answer revolting. Are you kidding me. It is one of the most inspiring and uplifting stories. I've read in ages. I look at the picture. And i just smell it. That's what three voltage by the way it's in the atlantic your place. The greatest clearly has apple transference problems. If he's going to bring up. I strongly identifying with us beleaguered apple and it strengthened adversity so yet. This is indeed in office where i've spent Unbelievable amounts of time. It is a wonderful fact checker name. Rachel gunman who wrote a piece about going back to her office after fifteen months and finding a plucky envy apple. So you've seen envy apples which kind of look like the snow. White poison apple. They're very pretty part of the reason. They're pretty unblemished is they. Were bred to have thick skins that would withstand shipment this thick skin all through with good the fairly controlled climate conditions of the atlantic offices in the watergate in washington. For fifteen months so it hadn't had punctures that would let in mold or fungus therefore it didn't rot. It just slowly rebel into. I think what she called was like a a date moore a longtime dried preserved fig so it looked like it slowly collapsed but it did not mold. It had a beautiful bright shining in and she went to great lengths talking to various food. It was like getting a second opinion from a doctor. She would not stop until somebody said. You will not die if you eat this. Because who were. Three of the scientists were explaining mold. Fungus air humidity fruit. We're saying nah. No you don't wanna do. You don't wanna go there. you don't wanna eat it. She not only went there. She invited three other people being slices of apple. Okay we obviously know the would not have eaten this up. I think that is a give turning right now. Hearing about this again after reading about it corby kummer part food expert part scientists part. Whatever would you have taken by the apple. Probably after reading. All of this stuff about it you i would have an antidote or some kind of hospital nine one one line nearby when i did it but yeah i'd be interested in means of preservation by the way unless something is growing green mold like a chia pet i would eat it i mean. Are you kidding me really. Yeah but we know one of the things you when you start looking into this as lots of moldings. Four people do this whole flavor and mold a department of mit course and his partner is was the chef of anton for awhile. Go this whole flavor. Fungus has an interview with today in with rene reds epi from noma all about fermentation. Still a big thing with chefs. If you read about a certain ones are harmful like with jam you can hoop off the white mold on the top and the jam underneath his fine. It has exposed to air arado but with loaves of bread. If you see one mold spot even if you don't see it in the rest of the bread because it's very airy and holy. It's there so you're not supposed to eat the rest of the bread. So you do your investigation until you find somebody who says i don't think you'll die but don't call me if you do by the way if you're looking for someone to say that my number is six months corey it's great to see you as always love. Tasmania take care much..
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"Boston public radio jared bone sitting in for marjory. I'm jim geraghty. Johnny over the latest headlines about food policy and the industry is cory comer. He's the executive director of the food and society policy program at the aspen in senior editor at the atlantic senior lecturer at the tufts friedman school of nutrition science and policy. Hello there corby kummer. Hello there although there hi corbett so we. Your massachusetts has tended toward the puritanical when it comes to alcohol here but now we have these self poor alcohol machines which seemed to be creeping into new england and to my surprise already here in massachusetts. I didn't realize it. So we're What are they about. Are we all going to be using them at some point soon. You know as anyone who has visited mississippi or states or bourbon. Street new orleans work to seeing Drive throughs that gave you annoymous big gulp. Sized alcohol fill drinks. The does in your in mississippi you know. It looks like it's a car wash or mcdonald's drive through and it's a bar and you get a giant pinnacle lada or marguerite and you're in your car like in one of those red Solo cups but even bigger so. There's that there's bourbon street with everybody going down with the same red cups of full of alcohol and usually wearing beads even out of a a mardi gras season in any case that has not been the case in new england and connecticut is about to allow the filth poor alcohol machine. You've all seen the vending machines especially from coca cola three mixture drink and you can pick exactly what you want and that's a huge innovation in the soft drink industry. This is the same thing for alcohol and cocktails. As far as i can tell the only place it's legal in massachusetts is behind a lock and key with valid. Id for bartenders at casino. But it might be coming sooner. You know it's one thing to be a supplement to make the lives easier of a wait person or a bartender but it sounds to me like this is a job killer inc. I mean isn't that what the goal is. It's partly job killer. It's partly just to increase sales. It's eating everything if it's for a bartender at the mgm springfield as it is. Then thurs you your drink and still gets a tip but it makes life easier then all you can say is. It's like those automatic expresso machine. We love the barista but the barista is just putting in a computer code on the super fancy eighteen thousand dollar machine and then handing into us the codes. We do it ourselves I don't know that it's a job killer. Unless of course connecticut is saying we're going put these on highway rest stops and so i was kind of joking but not about talking about how puritanical massachusetts has been around alcohol for instance. We still don't have happy. Hour other states do Obviously that's been given a lot of thought because of drunk driving accidents and whatnot but Especially as we're we're seeing the to go cocktails issue still alive. And whether that will be continued into next year or something that arose during the pandemic and with the advent of these self. Four machines is massachusetts changing in that regard. Well i think that legalizing beverages really important step to allow restaurants that have barely survived to make a high profit margin unmixed drinks to go. I hope that continues. Because i don't think that most customers are gonna spend a fortune on cereal tactics. I don't think this is dangerous. Who increase consumption. But i will say that all this legalizing good we do this. I was on a zoom discussion with the massachusetts author. Dan olk wrote a history of temperance. And the prohibition movement we were talking about legalized marijuana and the history of temperance. And i bet that there's going to be the same kind of strange bedfellows. Alliance opposing these self. Drink machines saying that. They're going to increase consumption dangerously that there was intemperance which is where a right now for example. He you dan. Oakland were saying the baptist. Church is joining forces with various unions to say. We don't want legalize marijuana because it's going to suppress alcohol feels bu- to last things. The thing that jared has mentioned this cocktails to go thing which i think most people know under baker executive order was okay through june fifteenth at literally being voted on the senate today to extend to march of two thousand twenty two you if if we need any proof not that we do in this country that there are two americas if there was a bill in the legislature today to say let's adopt what mississippi is doing. Let's have big gulps of mixed drinks in your car at mcdonalds. You think would get one vote in the legislative. Even i mean really either. You would hope it wouldn't. I haven't seen the lobbying. I believe that the state should increase and extend the legalized to go drinks. Because it is a way of helping restaurants is great but it is not the same as big gulps in cars. And i have not seen any kind of lobbying. I've only seen the restaurant industry saying hey help us out. We need everything we can to make money. Maybe in terms if they do this thing with cars they can also install these machines at k. through twelfth makes some extra restaurant. I mean that's the thing is. I think it's fine so far with under lock and key you have to have the employees to be able to use them so we're talking to become corby yesterday without you re talking about a horrible story in the globe. About how the he our heroes grocery workers of course for about a minute and a half At rhodes brothers delivery people were being replaced by outsourcing by contracting out with companies that do the delivery and then last night we read a story about pickers as they're called the people who grabble your stuff if you're doing instacart thing or whatever you're doing particularly during the pandemic but a lotta people think it's gonna continue maybe at a lower level post pandemic. These people are treated like crap. I mean they are right now. This is an incredibly depressingly bisque topi in story about what it is like to fill online grocery orders in a supermarket or warehouse. But i would say there's so much more of this that we don't read about like in warehouses from online ordering services but let's go it's like for supermarkets so the pickers as they're called are.
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"corby kummer" Discussed on Boston Public Radio Podcast
"It just slowly rebel into. I think what she called was like a date moore a longtime dried preserved fig so it looked like it slowly collapsed but it did not mold. It had a beautiful bright shining in and she went to great lengths. Talking to various foods site. Visit was like getting a second opinion from a doctor. She would not stop until somebody said. You will not guy if you eat this. Because who were three of the scientists or explaining mole air humidity. We're saying none. No you don't wanna do. You don't wanna go there. you eat it. She not only went there. She invited three other people being slices of this apple. Okay so we obviously know. The jarred would not have eaten this apple. I think that is a give churning right now say hearing about this again after reading about it corby kummer part food expert part scientists part. Whatever would you have taken a bite of the apple. Probably after reading. All of this stuff about it you i would have an antidote or some kind of hospital nine one one line nearby when i did it but yeah i'd be interested in various means of preservation by the way unless something is growing green mold. Look chia pet. I would eat it. I mean you kidding me really. Yeah but one of the things when you start looking into this as lots of moldings. Four people do this whole flavor and mold a department. Mit course erm and his partner was the chef of anton for awhile. Go this whole flavor. Funguses an interview. Today with rene reds epi from noma all about fermentation still a big thing with chefs. If you read about a turtle once or harmful like with jam you can hoop off the white mold on the top and the jam underneath his fine at had some exposed to arrived on but with loaves of bread. If you see one mold spot even if you don't see it in the rest of the bread because it's very and holy. It's there so you're not supposed to eat the rest of the bread so you do your investigation until you find somebody who says i don't think you'll die but don't if you do by the way if you're looking for someone to say that my number is six months of corby it's great to see you as always loved danya day care so much. Thank you corey. Corby kummer joins us regularly. He's the executive director of the food and society policy program at the aspen institute a senior editor at the atlantic and a senior lecturer at the tufts friedman school of nutrition science and policy. So up. next we're asking you. How far do you push the expiration date when it comes to eating the food. I can't. I just need to eat something to settle my stomach right now before this conversation. That's all coming up next eighty nine seven. Gbh boston public radio..
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"corby kummer" Discussed on Boston Public Radio Podcast
"Many choices. I'm sorry mortaring. Andrew was struck me reading. All this is is the gender bias. Frankly i mean we have one daughter saying mom abused her. Another daughter saying doubt abused her one daughter saying they treat each other horribly. They were screaming yelling. The ex-wife talking about coerced sex dad to in the car. It sounds like a a. I mean beyond dysfunctional scary and violent family. So i can't help thinking if this were a woman up for the job and these and these these stories about her family she wouldn't be there for two minutes. Mom mom presided over this sort of household so. I'm not sure why the same standards. Obviously people have difficulties in their families and their substance use and mental health issues. But this sounds like something way beyond any of that. And like i said. Do you think a woman with all this coming out about her mothering. Her parenting the alleged affairs on both sides would would be there for a minute. Well i certainly think it would be It would be judged differently because at that is pretty much always the case when there is There's always a difference between How men are judged particularly in positions of power and particularly those involving law enforcement And women who are judged that way the so you're you're i just wanna make sure. I understand the premise of the question. You're saying that if Dennis white were a woman and he had been accused in the past of domestic violence in the same way if a woman had been accused in the same way as dennis white had been accused which he'd be judged differently. I absolutely agree with you on that. I also think she would be judged differently if it came out that she had been the victim. Yeah yeah. I don't think it's a. I think it's a no win. I think you know. I guess i just find it. Incredible that you would be considering at this point. A possible police commissioner. Someone who had this of this much of a bizarre and allegedly violent and edgeley abusive cruel private life family. Who marjorie is considering you say. There's a double standard. And i would agree with both of you but since it came out. He thinks interesting came to light that he has why thinks he should be the commissioner of the of the oscar nominated would say i i i think she would feel. I think the average will feel would not be ashamed and withdraw. That's what i think. And i think that this is just incredible that he's thinking he should be the police commissioner man who's supposed to have wisdom and judgment your denies it. He said his party everything. I think he's denying everything being the initiator of any violence in that family. He said he's been the recipient. And he's purely responded. I'm okay well. I mean the strains credulity doesn't not i don't know i'm just saying that's his position so if it turns out he's contending that he didn't do what he is charged with. Why should he withdraw. Because even the daughter that's defending him talks about a wild crazy household but that the mother was the initiator she says yes but we have another daughter saying something completely different and and the mother saying something completely different saying she's got the scars to prove it and being disbelieved like so many women who alleged domestic violence against powerful men are just believe. There's a pattern here. And i guess that's the part that bothers me that you could get this far in the process whereas a woman would have been out of contention before she ever got to be considered in the circumstance. I mean i don't think i'm crazy about this andrea. Think you're crazy. Generally we have a technical issue. We gotta take a break okay okay. You're listening to boston public radio. We're gonna be right back when. I talked to intricate brawl. More about this and some other things stay tuned to eighty nine seventy h. boston public radio on boston. Public radio andrew cobra with the latest and the dentist white saga then. We're the end of most covid restrictions in massachusetts restaurants are free to pack their dining rooms and guests can stay as long as they want but the industry is hoping some covert rules will stay on like capstone delivery fees and the ability to send cocktails with got orders. Food policy writer. Corby kummer will join us to discuss resistance to some of these ideas on beacon hill and the cyberattack disruption on meat processing plants. Pretty soon your home network. Extend beyond your home into your driveway and open to your neighbors. Prying is a new service. Amazon sidewalk will share part of your echo and ring network with others nearby in hopes to improve their service tech and nocco. Join us to explain this and whether you should opt out all that ahead and more ahead on.
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"corby kummer" Discussed on Boston Public Radio Podcast
"To be t they seem to take forever on stuff that are no brainers and routine basis so anyway. Let's move on. We've heard a lot of talk. About how restaurants can't rehire people post pandemic in how there's a terrible staff shortage. I'm glad a lot of these people in the restaurants are saying that the real problem is the lousy wages and the lousy working conditions in a lot of these restaurants corby so no matter what restaurants say about worker shortage. The answer is always. Pay them more so th. There's a very simple answer Restaurants obviously financially strapped as we were just talking about But now i love this story. Workers are rising up and saying we've had it. We are now in the driver's seat with you You so many workers have moved out of state or are no longer available found other jobs. It offer much more controlled and better working conditions. That restaurants are saying we've had it so in washington. I went into a restaurant over the weekend that i really like an independently woman owned restaurant and the woman who was in charge of service said you heard about the restaurant. One of the most expensive restaurants in washington where the staff said It's friday and you're on your own this weekend. We're resigning on mass. You have been abusive to us long enough. And you've had this manager who is nuts and dings us for lipstick and fractions or the way we address guests or the way we do or don't hide our tattoos and so this was like one of the highest profile restaurants in dc and so the workers are targeting very successful high profile restaurants. And i think that in the case of this local restaurant what we read about was agreed but in the case of other more targeted strikes and attacks. It saying you have to start incorporate just raising your minimum wage and incorporating tips into the menus. We've often talked about on this show which is much more equitable. And you have to treat us like human beings because we're now in the driver's seat. Do this begin driver. do maybe. This is too tenuous connection. Do you think this will cause some members of congress who oppose a gradual increase to fifteen dollars to maybe support a significant increase. Even if not fifteen is now seven dollars and twenty five cents is incredible federal minimum wage and it because they're so concerned about the imp inability restaurants and other retail businesses to hire people this by a few extra votes for that. Oh no it's a question as is so often the case it's big private industry. That leads the way. We don't want that to be the case. But mcdonald's franchises not mcdonald's nationally are raising some of their minimum wages to fifteen dollars simply to be able to stay open to keep the doors open so private industry chipotle lay in one area where there was a bad social media campaign announced it was raising employees to an average of fifteen dollars an hour and starting wages from eleven to eighteen. And so this kind of pressure one fair wage. Which is the national groups are jared jeremiah. Who's been lobbying this for a long time. She's now being able to mobilise on a national scale and getting the kind of attention she never had. Well the other big thing is something we talk you a lot about Corby kummer is the tipped wage thing. I think it's to another story firm. I think it's two dollars and some change so if you if it's a snowy night or rainy night or just you don't get a lot of customers for whatever reason you could be going home at the end of the evening with fifteen dollars complicated about the minimum wage which seems absolutely inhuman and brutal is how many restaurant workers will say no. We want that because in exchange we can pocket many more tips and we don't want tips to be averaged out and shared with everybody. We want to be able to continue working for tips and restaurant owners..
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"corby kummer" Discussed on Boston Public Radio Podcast
"Only ones taken away your burgers. It's likely the russians joining us. Talk about the cyberattack. The disrupted your big mac. Thac how cocktails to go could be a no go and other headlines about food policy and industry as corby kummer. Corby of course is the executive director food and society policy program. Excuse me the aspen institute. He is a senior editor at the fabulous atlantic senior lecturer. Tufts friedman school of nutrition. Science and policy. Hello there corby kummer alot jim and marjorie and now i'm going to be afraid of your handshake. So guess show. Actually they were wiped out it anyway. Anyway you know what is the legislature going to do about extending some of these deals for restaurants which certainly deserve them in terms of outside eating in terms of not having these usurious Chunks taken out of their profits by rub hub and whatever. They are end toco cocktails. What's happening well. We're all really proud of jody adams and the group. She has helped spearhead and lots of other boston area. Restaurateurs are in and they were lobbying at the state house to increase a lot of penned emig relief measures that were taken by the state legislature and governor. Charlie baker who state of emergency expires any second on june fifteenth. is looking into how to extend cocktails to go which increased profit margins And i think the thing that is closest to my heart is a cap on delivery commissions from dora dash grubhub breeds. This has been Extortion on the part of these national services. Don't care about workers or dashers. Whatever they say the they charge restaurants up to thirty eight percent commission on restaurant deliveries which wipes out there already very narrow and fragile margin profit margin and so caps have been in in massachusetts fifteen percent in california. I think it was twenty percent but whatever the state legislature lands on they should be continuing this cap and i. I think what encourages is the growth of small local alternatives to these national software behemoths. That have taken over the mobile delivery service. But i don't know she said when you said it's imminent it's june fifteenth. Is the date. The emergency order expires in these things expire. So if you guys out there care about this yet to call your legislator now. Baker supports the extension of outdoor dining. Which in my opinion should be made permanent The toco cocktail should at least be continued for a year or so. The package stores are opposing it has been opened throughout the whole pandemic restaurants. Obviously have not and this delivery fee thing if they saw if they don't keep the cap in they're basically saying these out of state behemoths that you describe are more important local restaurants. I mean talk about these being. No brainers is an understatement. Just do it. What was it grow that wanted to. Thirty eight percent thirty cobra. Corby just said that. Thirty eight percent. Yeah that's insane. And by the way fifteen percent is a lot to a lot more number. Call your legislator if you care about your local independent restaurants. We're getting a lot of emails saying all this is gonna attributed drunken driving takeout a cocktail. I really don't see that as a big factor particularly since you're cocktails are in the container you're gonna take them home and make them with the ice and the and the garnishes to go to go with them. I mean you can of beer in the car now. That is such a blunt. They're expensive and price disincentive. You wanna get drunk. It's probably not going to be from a craft cocktail. Exact restaurant gets you and increase its profit margin again. This could be a life or death. I don't mean blair this could be like a life or death kind of thing for restaurants coming of the pandemic so if you care about it either way i guess..