Howdy Readers,
Our buddy Harold McGee is going to be Cooking Issues Radio’s special guest this week! The show will be coming to you on MONDAY at 12pm EST, instead of our regular Tuesday spot. This is your chance to call in and ask McGee anything your heart desires. Dave and McGee will be at: 718-497-2128. If you can’t get to a phone, email me (lopez.nastassia@gmail.com) and I’ll pass your questions on.
Thanks for listening.
Nastassia
Great episode, Dave & McGee kick ass!
I went by the Alemany Farmers Market (http://www.yelp.com/biz/alemany-farmers-market-san-francisco) this weekend to pick up (Harold’s) walnuts. I only found two vendors selling walnuts, but they were both selling
walnuts from Ferrarri Farms (http://www.ferrarifarms.com/). One of the stands labeled them “White” walnuts. Wikipedia seems to disagree (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juglans_cinerea).
They were selling three typed of shelled walnuts; regular, organic, and “sunburned”. There was no distinguishable differences between the regular and organic. Both nuts were mild, slightly sweet, only the slightest hint of bitterness if inhaled deeply, but overall underwhelming, very mild. The “sunburned” walnuts, despite the vendors insistence that they were “sweeter”, were very definitely the same nuts but with a deeper definitely more tannic flavor, not unpleasant, but still underwhelming.
http://imgur.com/0qrk9.jpg
I’m not sure Harold’s nut guy was there, it was a rainy weekend, the market was not quite half full. I’m also suspicious that I paid $1.50/lb., the Yelp review above mentions $3.00/lb. walnuts.
Thank you for the excellent podcast,
-Seth
Seth, Keep me posted on the nuts.