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This week it's a look into the future with Dr. James Levine, Director of the N.E.A.T. Center at The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Levine says your desk could be a slow-rolling treadmill with a computer mounted on it; you could be taking signing lessons instead of going to the gym, and cooking with friends who make you laugh. It all comes from Dr. Levine's imagination and 15 years of detailed obesity research at Mayo. His latest books are Move a Little, Lose a Lot and The Blue Notebook, a novel to be published in July.

The Sterns have found cows so happy that the milk they give makes what Jane says is the most fabulous ice cream she's had in her life! All of this bliss can be found at Delaware's Woodside Farm.

Forget the pricey ice cream maker — Karen Solomon brings us classy popsicles you make from practically nothing. It's all in her book, Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It: And Other Cooking Projects.

Ray Isle, Executive Wine Editor for Food & Wine magazine, talks the break-out Chardonnays — the unoaked ones — and tries to convert Lynne.

Poet Thomas Sayers Ellis, author of The Maverick Room, writes a poem for us titled "Godzilla's Avocado," and Rachel Muston says the refrigerator is the biggest energy drain we've got.

Recipes

Chocolate Fudge Pops

Creamy, chocolaty, and frozen – what could be better? These luscious little wonders taste like fudge on a stick. Get the full recipe.

Siracusa Market Pasta

A Pasta inspired by the black olives that farmwives marinate and sell at the morning market in the Sicilian port town of Siracusa. Get the full recipe.

Features

Jane and Michael Stern: Woodside Farm
Hockessin, DE

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When the Sterns discovered Woodside Farm in Hockessin, Delaware, Jane claims she found the best ice cream she's had in her life.

It's all about the ultra-rich milk that goes into this impossibly luxurious treat, and the farm's philosophy that happy cows give the best milk. The milk is produced by a small herd of pretty and pampered Jersey cows lovingly cared for right on the Woodside Farm property.

Each cow has a name and is groomed, petted and fed a healthy diet of fresh green clover. The herd was started in 1990 with Abby and Melissa who still reside at the farm, although they are now retired.

There are lots of flavors on offer, but the Sterns say go for the vanilla cream. It's simply the richest and best ever and makes all other premium ice creams taste like ice milk.

Woodside Farm
1310 Little Baltimore Road
Hockessin, DE
302-239-9847
www.woodsidefarmcreamery.com

Move a Little, Lose a Lot

Lynne recently visited Dr. James Levine at his office at The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Levine is an authority on preventing and treating the global obesity epidemic, and the Director of the N.E.A.T. Center as Mayo, which translates as "Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis." This, in turn, translates as the small day-to-day movements we've stopped doing over the past century.

Lynne on the treadmill at the N.E.A.T. Center, with Dr. James Levine. Photo by Jen Russell

"375 Degrees": A Poem by Dr. James Levine

Dr. Levine is lean, as expected, and exuberant — no stuffy scientist here — as you can tell when you hear the poem "375 Degrees" that he wrote for Lynne.

Unoaked Chardonnay

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Lynne is not a Chardonnay fan. She thinks they're akin to drinking oak chips. Ray Isle, Executive Wine Editor for Food & Wine magazine, wants to change her thinking about that. He suggests three break-out Chardonnays — unoaked ones — to try:

• From Chile: 2008 Cousino Macul Estate Chardonnay. About $11
• From South Africa: 2008 Brampton Unoaked Chardonnay. About $11
• From Oregon: 2007 Chehalem INOX Chardonnay. About $19

"Godzilla's Avocado" — Thomas Sayers Ellis

Poet Thomas Sayers Ellis wrote the poem "Godzilla's Avocado" for us. He is a teacher of writing at Sarah Lawrence College, a photographer and a performer of ideas. His latest book of poetry is The Maverick Room.

"Trashing the Fridge" — Rachel Muston

You knock yourself out to reduce your carbon footprint to a mere toe tap; you recycle everything but the cat, and compost the remains from supper every night. But you're ignoring the elephant of an eco-sinner in the room, the refrigerator. Rachel Muston and a lot of other people believe the fridge is the biggest energy drain we've got. So she's doing something about it. She keeps track of carbon footprint reduction experiments on a blog at www.efficiencyexperiments.blogspot.com Rachel works in information technology for the Canadian government in Ottawa.

"Trashing the Fridge" is originally from a February 4, 2009 New York Times article by Steven Kurutz.

Short Attention Span Science:
What Kind of Fish?

When you buy a package of fish labeled "red snapper" at the supermarket, are you sure you're actually getting red snapper? To find out about truth in advertising on food labels, Lynne went to the laboratory of Dr. Steven Palumbi, Professor of Marine Sciences and a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for the Environment. Dr. Palumbi showed Lynne that the only sure-fire way we can know that what's on the label is what's in the package is to do a little DNA sleuthing.

The video of Lynne's visit with Dr. Palumbi is posted on the Discovery Channel's Web site.

Audio Highlights

• Jane and Michael Stern visit Woodside Farm in Hockessin, DE
  
• Karen Solomon on popsicles
  
• Dr. James Levine: Move a Little, Lose a Lot
  
• Ray Isle talks about unoaked Chardonnays
  
• Poet Thomas Sayers Ellis
  

Music

• "Getting in the Cows" by Charlie Maguire, from Long Way To Another Friend, Mello-Jamin Music
• "Cold Brains" by Beck, from Mutations, Geffen
• "Popsicle" by Talking Heads, from Sand In The Vaseline, Sire
• "Zombieland" by T Bone Burnett, from True False Identity, Columbia
• "Momove" by Underworld, from A Hundred Days Off V2
• "Futures" by Zero 7, from The Garden Atlantic
• "Dear Limmertz" by Azymuth, from Faze Action Present: Abstract Funk Theory Obsessive
• "Call Me" by Al Green, from Call Me, The Right Stuff
• "The Splendid Table Theme" is written and performed by Billy Barber, "Two for the Road" (used for the Sterns segment) was written by Henry Mancini for the film of the same name. It's also performed by Billy Barber.

Books

• Move a Little, Lose a Lot by Dr. James Levine
• The Blue Notebook by James Levine, M.D.
• Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It: And Other Cooking Projects by Karen Solomon
• The Maverick Room by Thomas Sayers Ellis
• 500 Things to Eat Before It's Too Late by Jane and Michael Stern

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