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Arts & Life

Cracking The Coconut

Montana Public Radio | By Beth Anne Austein

Published November 30, 2014 at 5:00 AM MST

Greg and Jon are coconut appreciators. They discuss shredded coconut in candy, cookies, cakes and pies; coconut milk, which in baking can substitute for cow's milk; coconut water (in young coconuts); and coconut oil, with its high smoke point. Coconut oil, once thought a culprit in heart disease, has recently undergone a rehabilitation. How do you open a mature coconut? Greg recommends throwing it on the sidewalk or taking a hammer to it - but don't forget, you'll also be peeling off the skin.

(Broadcast: "The Food Guys," 11/30/14. Listen weekly on the radio at 11:50 a.m. Sundays, or via podcast.)

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Beth Anne Austein

Beth Anne Austein has been spinning tunes on the air (The Folk Show, Dancing With Tradition, Freeforms), as well as recording, editing and mixing audio for Montana Public Radio and Montana PBS, since the Clinton Administration. She’s jockeyed faders or "fixed it in post” for The Plant Detective; Listeners Bookstall; Fieldnotes; Musicians Spotlight; The Write Question; Storycorps; Selected Shorts; Bill Raoul’s music series; orchestral and chamber concerts; lecture series; news interviews; and outside producers’ programs about topics ranging from philosophy to ticks.

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