Tom's Podcast
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45 episodes
45. Le Comptoir du Cacao
May 8, 20235 businesses that I have opened during my lifetime.Projet Espoir et Equité, opened in 2020."You cannot start wholesale." Le Comptoir du Cacao--May 1, 2023Description of products: pastries, choc...
43. Three Beautiful Towns on the Salento Peninsula
March 18, 2023Lunch in Tricase Porto--south of LecceVisiting a gluten-free store, a mozzarella store, Basilica di Santa Croce.Visiting Ostuni, Lunch in GallipoliExtolling spumoni: Gallipolian versus Sicilian ve...
42. Three Days in Lecce
March 11, 2023Column donated by Brindici to Lecce--history. Statue of Orontius (Oronzo). Amphitheater (built in 2nd century). Porta Rudiae.Little food stories. The sad olive trees of Sorento. W...
41. A Trip to Lecce
March 2, 2023Train Trips: Cordes to Toulouse, Toulouse to Lyon, Lyon to Chambéry. Lyon to Milan, Milan to Bologna, Bologna to Lecce.Meal Descriptions.Announcements about the new store in Cordes sur Ciel.
40. Dorothy Neuhaus: One Hell of a Woman and Mother. An Interview.
January 6, 2023Dorothy Neuhaus, 99, was an inspiration to me, showing how important it is to become involved in one's local community. She saved the WH Over Dakota Museum and she founded the area's first recycling center.Why...
39. Participating in the Ivorian Booth at the Salon du Chocolat
November 5, 2022Five days in the Ivorian booth, talking to visitors.Description of the buildingThe burgeoning B2B (Bean-to-bar) market. The tools of the B2B trade. Melangeur companies.Pioneers: John...
38. Doors--on the Brink of Profound Change
October 2, 2022Countries of the Global South and the Global NorthTransformation from Commodity AgricultureTwo events important to the future of PH&FTwo certifications--organic and Fair Trade--that had promise but...
36. Chapter 1 of Bien Manger Pour Bien Vivre
July 31, 2022THE ART OF EATING AND COOKINGAUSTERITY BECOMES A VIRTUEGASTRONOMY AS AN ARTA NEW DISH IS GREATER THAN A NEW STARBRILLAT SAVARIN: "Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you who you are."A...
35. Translating "Bien Manger Pour Bien Vivre"
July 17, 2022.Background of the author, Edouard de Pomiane, a pseudonymPreface written by the legendary Ali-Bab and introduction by author.I found his writing and his assumptions dated. They really are based on a Euro...
34. Four Encounters with Julia Child
June 25, 2022FIRST ENCOUNTER: January 1970, cooking meals from Julia Child's "Cooking of Provincial France".SECOND ENCOUNTER: January, 1971, attending the taping of the Omelet Show at WGBH.THIRD ENCOUNTER: ...
60. DISCOVERING CHOCOLATE—A TALK DELIVERED TO THE LOUBERSIANS
April 14, 2026On Sunday, April 12, I gave a talk to 11 Loubersians, people from the village of Loubers. I covered the following:My backgroundThe cocoa tree, fruit, and seedImportance of fermentation to...
33. Project Redwood Grant; Establishment of SCAP and Project Espoir et Equité
May 15, 2022Report on fundraiser in September of 2021. Individual donations. Two Projects Funded by a Project Redwood Grant: 1, Depa will be pressing cocoa liquor to extract cocoa butter and the press cake will b...
32. A Hallelujah Chorus of Truffles
December 22, 202116 members of our truffle chorus: Apple-Black Pepper, Arabie (Date paste), Coco-Banana, Coffee, Cranberry, Curry-Raisin, Chipotle, Ginger, Marzipan, Noisette, Orange-Vanilla, Pine-nut, Vanil...
31. A Loss of Trust--the Assassination of JFK
November 26, 2021Ten Factors that make us who we are: 1, the economy (use of the government); 2, sex and the pill; 3, science (acquired a central focus); 4, war (more of it); 5, climate (burning up the planet); 6, organized religio...
30. Victor's Family Reminiscences, Part 3
November 3, 2021Oliver spent a lot of time with the Indian family. He accompanied them up Mt San Jeronimo, where he participated in the rites of sun worship. Relationships between the Indios (Indians) and the Mestizos (Spanish-Mexi...
29. Victor's Family Reminiscences--Part 2
October 26, 2021Characters: Oliver--eventually became VP of a big oil company. Jenny--my great-grandmother. Rolf--invented the milk carton. Esther--my mother's mother (got sick in Mexico and returned to the US).&n...
28. Five Easy Pieces
September 16, 2021Bach's music is profoundly cheerful and full of love. JSB was a devout Christian, and his music portrays the majesty of a Theistic God who loves his creation. These five organ pieces are among my favorites.<...
27. Victor's Family Reminiscences--Part 1
October 16, 2021Written by my Great-Uncle, Victor Frederick Peterson. Comments about how I inherited this document. Other personal comments.Emigration of Swedes to the US and Little Swedens that dotted the MidWest and ...
25. Joining the Merchant Class
July 1, 2021African Truffle assortment using Depa chocolateDepa: our first chocolate production facility. David's customers.Description of truffle productionOther products using Depa chocolate<...
24. Can Science and Religion Coexist in One Person?
May 15, 2021A comparison of my parents' science interests and their hopes to make me a scientist. A comparison of parental religious philosophies. How can science and religion coexist in one person when science negates religi...
23. Stories About Depa, Pezoan, and Cordes sur Ciel
April 15, 2021My commitment to "do something" about poverty of the cocoa farmer. Purchase of tools for farmers. 2012 trip: I proposed the idea of building cocoa processing facility in Depa. Since 2019, David Logbo Zigro...
22. Batteries in Our Future
March 23, 2021.The Thomas Edison Model: dispersed generators connected by ACIntermittency: how to blend wind and solar with traditional generatorsEnergy to weight ratio: History of the battery.<...
21. Survival in the Time of Global Warming
March 6, 2021Hopelessness: a hopeless approachA bug shows the way; a metaphor for our times.History of the global warming theory.Forcings: measured in watts per square meter (incoming and outgoing)<...
20. The Concept of the Apocalypse
February 13, 2021INTRODUCTION: An old-testament writing genre that grew in response to the Babylonian captivity to provide hope to the Chosen People who had been kidnapped to Babylon, then invaded by the Greeks and then the Romans....