The Main Course Archive

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Special Program at 12:00 am - 12:00 am

The first show to ever air on Heritage Radio Network, The Main Course, has hosted the most interesting chefs, farmers, and food luminaries—from Michael Pollan and Alice Waters, to Wylie Durfresne, Joan Dye Gussow, Mark Ladner and Marion Nestle—since 2009. The Main Course is the brainchild of Heritage Radio Network founder Patrick Martins. Over the years, The Main Course has been home to many different cohosts, but Patrick has always remained active as a producer and host. Over the years, The Main Course has been home to many different cohorts including Katy Keiffer, Mark Marabella, and the charismatic duo Phillip Gilmour, restaurateur extraordinaire (Momo Sushi Shack, Hi Hello, Moku Moku), and Alexes McLaughlin, but Patrick has always remained active as a producer and co-host.

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Hosted by

Katy Keiffer

Katy Keiffer has worked in and around the food industry for over thirty years. First as a cook, then a butcher, a cookbook publicist, and finally, a food writer, Katy has been present for the massive transformation of the food industry in America. Growing up in a rural New England town where gardening, composting, bread baking and scratch cooking were part of daily life gave her a lifelong appreciation of how important good food is for body and soul. A host at Heritage for over six years, she has spent the time engaging with a vast cohort of informed experts who have contributed enormous stores of knowledge about how our food system works, and how it doesn’t.

Hosted by

Patrick Martins

Patrick Martins was born in New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital on February 10th, 1972. Later, he received a Masters' Degree in Performance Studies at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Patrick works with an excellent team to run a distribution business for heritage breeds of livestock and poultry. In 2019, The New York Times wrote that Heritage Foods is “— the company at the forefront of the nonindustrial meat movement —”. Patrick is a founder of Slow Food USA and the Heritage Radio Network and author of the Carnivore's Manifesto published by Little, Brown. In 2004 he and a friend produced the New York City Trivia Game. Patrick is a host of the podcast and radio show The Main Course O.G.  