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The Food Show: Early autumn shrimp

For 12 years, The Food Show took listeners inside the food business, exploring news and trends in food production, marketing and consumption. Beginning in 1978, host Jim Wright – a former circus ringmaster – navigated through the gastronomical gamut as listeners learned all about the food business. From important news to tips on camel-milking or microwave cookery, The Food Show offered a wealth of information on anything food-related.

Jim Wright offers a recipe for "Early autumn shrimp," courtesy of Regina O'Rourke in Etobicoke, Ont. in this 1978 episode of CBC Radio's The Food Show. It's an easy and colorful dish, she says, great for any time of year.
• In 1996, movie company Viacom started the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. restaurant chain, inspired by the 1994 movie Forrest Gump.
  • Of more than 2,000 species of shrimp, one of the most dangerous is the pistol shrimp, which can stun or kill its prey with sonic blasts. It has one enlarged claw, which it snaps to create a stream of bubbles that can move at 100 km/h and, for an instant, is as hot as the sun.

Medium: Radio
Program: The Food Show
Broadcast Date: Oct. 15, 1978
Announcer: Jim Wright
Duration: 0:43
Photo: © Elke Dennis. Image from BigStockPhoto.com

Last updated: January 27, 2012

Page consulted on March 26, 2013

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