I guess this did not upload correctly, because it's not on the patreon feed. I'm sorry about that. I did not know it was missing until yesterday, and then I had to find my laptop and get it uploaded.
The last podcast I watched the city wake up. This podcast I watch it go to sleep, and ... well I start to go to sleep.
2019-12-11 20:56:24 +0000 UTC View Post
A lot of little stories this week, We made candy canes on the streets of Tallahassee. More Inspiration from Paris, issues with my ears, and why I'm binge watching deep space 9.
2019-12-10 22:12:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Greg is in Paris, and is rambling a podcast from a park near his apartment. This is about flavors, travel and the experience of Paris.
2019-11-26 08:43:49 +0000 UTC View Post
I wanted to post lots of updates from Paris, but patreon thinks someone stole my account and is posting from Paris. It's making it hard to use. I'm posting photos on the lofty pursuits Twitter feed. I'm sorry for the technical glitches. I'm borrowing a VPN to make this part and to get the podcast up (I hope).
The business card I was handed was for this site.
https://stuttgart-rain.com/
A podcast with a coupon in it for a free sample bag of our Black Chocolate Cherry Drops. I talk about my upcoming trip to Paris and about the three Mona Lisa's, and I remember my friend Rich Pouncey, who made the grits for Lofty Pursuits. He passed away on the 11th of November.
2019-11-19 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I think this may be my longest podcast year. I don't stretch them, and so far they seemed to max out at 25 minutes. this one is 31 minutes. I talk about waking up early to get myself on Paris time for an upcoming trip, and I talk about the Candy Feast's response and how accident can somehow make unique designs you can't get intentionally.
2019-11-12 11:42:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Order our Candy Feast Leftovers here https://www.pd.net/node/159
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Once upon a time, Greg got it in his head to make some thanksgiving flavors in candy. Ones that are not normally associated with candy in the United States at least. So he made sweet corn, and sweet potato casserole. Then he went on. Apple pie, Butternut squash ... and he kept going. He wanted a starch, buttered rolls did the trick, he ha...
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2019-11-08 16:31:57 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm sorry I've been light on posts the past few weeks. I've been making the Candy Feast. It sold out the day we started shipping it.
I'm not going to make more of this, this year .... unless I do it as drops and call them Leftovers.
The flavors came out amazing, but at some point they are confusing. The honey baked ham tastes just like ham, not like ham candy, so does the dressing.
I like this idea and I want to take it further for the holidays.
I'm looking...
2019-11-06 22:56:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Today Greg talks about flavor creations and what reaching 500K subscribers is like. He also talks more about the way Beard Street celebrates Halloween in Tallahassee.
2019-11-05 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Apple pie and Butternut Squash.
The Sweet Potato Casserole had too much marshmallow in it. Back to the drawing board on that one.
These two have the flavors dead on.
2019-10-31 01:43:04 +0000 UTC View Post
This model car is called a cube. The license plate has the formula for glucose. This is a sugar cube.
2019-10-30 13:57:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Greg talks about some obscure puns in the video number 117 corn candy, not candy corn. He visits the Royal Hanneford Circus, he gripes about hiring employees a little and gives application tips for jobs, and then comes the Creature.
We also read your letters that you sent to podcast@pd.net
The video is up, still rendering when I'm posting it, but here it is. I made a pun, see if you can catch it.
The Candy Feast is an creation I've been working on for a while. The goal is to make you think differently about flavors. Inspired by a fall feast (a traditional Thanksgiving dinner in the USA) we are making all courses in candy. The trick is to make this work, and we've done it.
The first one we made is Corn Candy, not to be confused with Candy Corn.
I made some Corn Candy. Corn candy is a traditional Japanese candy flavor, and it works so well in hard candy.
What's better, we've...
We're almost at half a million subscribers. Wooo!
2019-10-23 21:29:12 +0000 UTC View Post
I tell about a bad weekend of rain that prevented me from going to see the steam engine crush sugar cane. I talk about some corn candy (not candy corn) and I review Icehenge by Kim Stanley Robinson.
2019-10-22 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostToday I started the next flavor serious. I made sweet corn candy. Not only is this delicious and I added a butter, so it's buttered sweet corn I guess, but it's not completely uncommon flavor in Asia. I'm doing a candy feast. Buttered corn, sweet potatoes, cranberry candy, apple pie, peach cobbler, pumpkin pie, sourdough bread, Amd possibly a red wine candy to have on the side. I might even try to bake a candied ham candy.
I know I won't make all of these flavors, but I'm going to try ...
Apparently I now get fan art. this is amazing. Thanks Brittoodles.
2019-10-19 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I had planned for over a month to go up to the Jarrell Plantation in Julitte Ga to see them crush their sugar cane with what may be the last steam powered cane crusher left. I was to video it. The weather is set for rain all Saturday thanks to the incoming storm. I'm bummed. I'm not going to go now. My cameras do not like getting wet, and they can't run the steam engine in the rain.
I've spent the whole week planning for a shoot. Perhaps next year. In any event you can see t...
2019-10-18 01:02:47 +0000 UTC View Post
I tell the tale about the strange journey I had in getting the ice cream bus I now use, I talk about ice creams influence on cultural memory, and I review a book called Frankenstein prodigal Son.
Frankenstein Prodigal Son
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com...
2019-10-15 13:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I think I crammed it all in, in the title.
This podcast is about video #116, about being recognized in other cities and how weird it is, I talk about Calculating Stars, this years Hugo winner, and we read your letters.
2019-10-08 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is a early link to this video. It will go public at about 11am tomorrow. I may make it a premier and if I do you can ask me questions live.
Enjoy.
2019-10-04 01:28:53 +0000 UTC View Post
I just put my pumpkin spice candy up at Lofty Pursuits. I was happy with the flavor last year, but this year instead of using liquid flavoring I used dried spices, cinnamon, All spice, nutmeg ... the very things I put into a pie.
I went down a pumpkin spice rabbit hole a while back when I realized there is no Pumpkin in the campaign room.
This is one of the best flavors I've made, subtle and clean.
2019-10-03 12:37:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Don Rosa is an artist who draws Uncle Scrooge comics. In The Life and times of Scrooge McDuck a great book that you need to read if you haven't, Scrooge McDuck had an adventure at Krakatoa. if you don't know the island blew up in a volcanic eruption in the late eighteen hundreds. I did not know that further eruptions created a new island on that location called Anak Krakatoa, which means child of Krakatoa.
This island in turn had an eruption which caused the tsunami ea...
I've become fascinated with a confectioner for the 1700s named Nicolas Appert. He won contest to preserve food run by the French government. This is the beginning of canning and tinting and your can of tuna fish is its direct descendant.
He is also weirdly known for inventing chicken Kiev.
I guess candy makers can do anything. :)
I'm still trying to find out more about his confectionery business
I write this as I battle with Caterine, my cat for control of the keyboard. Typing while petting is hard.
I talk about this photo I took back in 1996, as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Abby Road, and I cover a candy failure that happened today.
Abby Road Parody
For the 50th anniversary of Abby Road I pulled out of my files a photo I took in 1996 to promote the Juggling stuff I sell at Lofty Pursuits.
It made me appreciate the original cover photo more. I sited a location, College avenue in Tallahassee, in front of the recently opened Potbellys. It had the zebra stripes and the sight lines, then I noticed. The photographer, or at least the camera was above eye level. It was centered on the album cover to make the sight lines...
2019-09-27 14:20:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I go over some things about the Tiki Candies I'm making.
How binaural audio works, and how my mic was developed
Replies to questions (send them to podcast@pd.net
And that is podcast #12
-GReg
For a long time I said the STI candy was the hardest I've done. By all rights this should not have worked out at all .All the little white wrapped triangles wanted to cool to fast. Jake was a monster, flipping them on the heating table so they would not distort, and the design came together and did not distort. Now to hope the customer does not order any more. I really don't want to go through this again. IT was so cold at the end it took two of us to size the candy down from the Log.&n...
2019-09-23 19:23:12 +0000 UTC View Post