Does Foodiness cause wrinkles? Erica Wides is back with a heartfelt episode on apples, aging, Laura Ingalls, Ira Apfel and .. yes, wrinkles.

How does Erica Wides come up with the topics featured on Lets Get Real? Usually during a hike or at the gym great ideas pop up, but, she has one big problem: the loud music!  Is it possible to just turn down sometimes? After the break, Erica pulls this all together with food and foodiness by means of the term: misophonia.  Tune in to hear Ericas spin on this clamorous claim. Misophonia is the intolerance or hatred of the sound of food... or the sound of people eating food. [17:00] --Erica...

Erica Wides is not happy. Pumpkin spice is everywhere, Burger King is making black buns, foodiness has taken over and everybody is trying to sell you a pink ribbon (or a donut). She wonders if these ribbons and donuts really do anything to make us healthier and proposes something entirely new - Foodiness Awareness Month. You might want to sit down for this one. Going back 3,000 years in food history, the pumpkin spice mania has never been as high as it is today. Its a true sign of the...

How does foodiness trash find its way to the woods? Erica Wides shakes her head at diapers on the hike trail this week on Lets Get Real. Why do so many food brands package their food in layers upon layers of unnecessary plastics? Why do those plastics end up everywhere? Tune in and lament with your faithful host. We are drowning, dying and suffocating in plastic packaging. More than half the fish caught now have tiny plastic pellets in their stomachs. [17:00]  

Why are Americans so afraid of food? We are so afraid of the safeness of the food that we are eating, that its preventing us from allowing ourselves to see it as it truly is. Our perceptions of what food is safe and what isnt have been completely warped by strict health codes and air-tight packaging. This week on Lets Get Real, Erica Wides examines the tendency that Americans have to let their fear of food prevent them from eating some of the most delicious things nature has to offer. I think...

What does the word done mean to you? Is it a raw slab of red meat served as is on a plate, or do you like it cooked into a greyish-black oblivion? This week on Lets Get Real, Erica Wides discusses the concept of doneness. Can doneness function on a spectrum similar to autism or sexuality? Erica argues that the amount of doneness depends on the person preparing the meat and how they enjoy to cook and eat it. But even though there is a wide range of doneness preferences, we can all still manage...

Anyone that says that they dont like to eat fish have probably only ever eaten tilapia, which is the worst fish ever according to Erica Wides on this weeks episode of Lets Get Real. Despite tilapia being incredibly bland and tasteless, it is one of the most popular kinds of fish and is available on almost every menu at every restaurant. Scombroid fish, the fast moving, dark meat fish like Tuna and Swordfish which taste better are being over-fished and also have dangerous levels of mercury, so...

Did you know that more than half of Americas kids are chronically dehydrated? Yup. Know why? Foodiness drinks; like Sporty-Ade and Crappi-Sun pouches, and Juicee-Boxes...and regular and diet sodas, all contribute to fat, sick, and dehydrated kids. Kids who may very well grow up to vote for TED CRUZ! Or even worse! Wait, whats worse than Ted Cruz? Listen to find out, on a live, hydrated, and in full living color Lets Get Real! Water creates life. We are water. However you want to define life -...

Erica Wides is not alone in the #foodiness shelter this week! On todays episode of Lets Get Real Erica is joined by The Sarcastic Nutritionists! Josh and Gretchen, the masterminds behind that snark-tastic name, and the bloggers and Etsy with a sense of humor creators of their namesake products come down the ladder to the shelter to talk what else? ‪#‎Foodiness‬. Oh and nutrition, whatever that really means anymore, and Ericas new theory that kids who are diagnosed with ADHD are really...

This week on Lets Get Real Erica starts the show by giving us an update on her hunt for the perfect snack, and then moves on to a discussion about chicken protein powder. Why are we so obsessed with having as much protein as possible, and why do food companies feel they have to add protein to everything from cookies to water? Erica goes in to a discussion all about real food products this week on Lets Get Real. This program was brought to you by Cain Vineyard and Winery. Call me crazy but...

This week on Lets Get Real host Erica Wides interviews Sayre Piotrkowski and Collin McDonnell for a conversation all about how foodiness and beer have intertwined. Erica, Sayre, and Collin discuss how, just like the wine industry has evolved since the 70s, beer seems to be on the same track. How do we tell the difference between people who are doing beer the right way, and people who just want to get there piece of a new trend? Who can we really trust in the world of brew? All this week on...

Erica Wides has snacking on her mind on a brand new episode of Lets Get Real. Why do we love snacks so much? What is a Quesorito? Fight the foodiness, tune in and embrace real food! This program was brought to you by Cain Vineyard and Winery Americans consume 500-700 calories a day JUST from snacking! [18:00] Nobody needs to eat a quesorito.. I dont even know what a quesorito is!!! [25:00] --Erica Wides on Lets Get Real

There are special guests this week on Lets Get Real! Erica Wides is joined by some friends in the foodiness fallout shelter, Cara Tannenbaum and Andrea Tutunjian - co-authors of In a Nutshell: Cooking and Baking with Nuts and Seeds The only cookbook of its kind, In a Nutshell is a complete guide to cooking and baking with nuts and seeds. After working for years as instructors at the Institute of Culinary Education, Cara Tannenbaum and Andrea Tutunjian deliver the essential cookbook for Mother...

Erica Wides doesnt like sports. Big surprise. But recently she learned what an over-under is... or if youre speaking in a NYC sports talk radio accent .. the ovah-unduh. The ovuh-unduh is an American phenomenon. After the industrial revolution and the mechanization and centralization of farming and the invention of post-war chemical fertilizing and the subsequent government subsidizing of commodity grains and then the subsequent shift in out diets to a corn and soybean orgy of grain and grain...

This week on Lets Get Real Erica starts off the show by talking about her favorite imaginary/real best friend, Laura Ingalls Wilder author and subject of the Little House on the Prairie book series. She draws from what she thinks Lauras perspective of food in our modern day and age would be. Would Laura even recognize the things that we call food today, and how does our increasing amount of choices in our diet cause problems in the modern world, all discussed on this weeks episode. This...

Erica Wides celebrates 125 episode of Lets Get Real by going back to the basics -- milk! What makes breastmilk so special? Why does anybody use formula? Well - theres a lot to unpack here. Erica calls baby formula the original foodiness product - is she right? Tune in and hear her share her opinions on the issue of breastmilk vs formula. This program was brought to you by Cain Vineyard and Winery. We can all agree that mama milk kind of crushes soy-based formulas - no matter what. Breast milk...

Dont throw those ugly carrots out! Or that old can of soup! Or those lentils! Erica Wides helps you feel better about your old weird foods on a mindful episode of Lets Get Real. Food waste is a serious problem and Erica explores how the foodiness machine plays into the equation. This program was brought to you by Cain Vineyard and Winery. We throw out almost 40% of the food we produce. [12:00] Lately, food waste has been making its way into the mainstream media -- which is great! [13:00]...

This week on Lets Get Real Erica begins the show by discussing when she first moved to Brooklyn 20 years ago, she transitions from this to looking at how Brooklyn has changed her lifestyle and her cooking. She talks about one cooking job that she does that involved cooking for a wealthy family, and her frustration with the occasional terrible cooking of the nanny. She discusses the fact that the cooking is not a matter of economics, but rather a way for the nanny to stick it to the man. This...

This week on Lets Get Real Erica begins the show by addressing the briefly famous dress picture that it seems none of us could agree on. She uses this topic of color to transition to a recent announcement by Nestle. Nestle stated that by the end of 2015 they will be removing all artificial colors from their candy. This program was sponsored by Cain Vineyard and Winery. If there were no candy in the world by tomorrow, poof! Who would suffer? [1:07] -- Erica Wides on Lets Get Real

This week on Lets Get Real Erica starts the show by reminiscing about Seinfelds Bizzaro World. She transitions to talking about her own personal bizzaro world, and how some of the current policies regarding nutrition makes it seem as if the US government is going crazy. She goes into other topics which include, Ronald reagan, Greenwich Connecticut, aliens, and food allergies. This program was sponsored by Cain Vineyard and Winery The same group that brought us smoking as an asthma cure...is...

This is a story about rocks, pebbles and stones. From the doctors office to Iceland, Erica takes listeners on a journey that ends with stone soup. Stone soup? Kidney Stones? It all makes sense in the end. Tune in and find out why pebbles might be the next big diet craze. This program was brought to you by

Cotton Candy Latte? Oh come on!! Yes, its a real thing and yes -- Erica Wides is talking about it on todays episode of Lets Get Real. Tubs of margarine and suburban dinners are Ericas nightmare and she gives listeners a window into the hellish world of guns and snowboards in New Jersey. This program was brought to you To me, the flavor of cotton candy just tastes pink. [05:00] --Erica WIdes on Lets Get Real

What better way to introduce the new year than a long winded story about Coscto and The Peanuts? Tune into the season debut of Lets Get Real as Erica Wides teaches listeners about the virtues of frozen food and whole animals. Hear what she thinks you should all be doing in 2015 and why family dinners can be challenging. This program was brought to you by Cain Vineyard and Winery. This year everybodys resolution including mine should be taking a fresh look at your food - restocking......

Its time to recap the year in foodiness as Erica Wides closes out 2014 on the season finale of Lets Get Real. From bleached cereal grains to kale salads at The Cheesecake Factory, Erica takes a look at whats saved us and plagued us in 2014. Is the future bright? Have we made progress? Will a giant avalanche of sugar destroy us all? Find out on Lets Get Real!. 2015 - I thought wed never live to meet you next week [04:00] You can get a kale salad at the cheesecake factory. if thats not progress...

So Thanksgiving is over and many of you have thrown out the carcass and moved on from the whole ordeal. Erica Wides has a bone to pick with you this week on Lets Get Real. Erica breaks animals down to the bone and explains what makes skeletal pieces the foundation of Western cooking. Is bone broth the new kale juice? Is there a more flavorful part of an animal than the bones? Find out and tune in! This program was brought to you by Cain Vineyard and Winery. Generally speaking the bones and...