Please Pass the Salt Potatoes

The 1st Ten Great Foods

PLEASE PASS THE SALT POTATOES
The Video Guide to "Great Original Foods of Upstate New York"

Upstate New York is home to great, unique, and original foods and eateries. We travelled throughout Upstate New York and made videos of some of the best.

Here are the first ten:

*Garbage Plate-Nick Tahou's, Rochester
This is the home of the garbage plate.
*Buffalo Wings-the Anchor Bar, Buffalo
Buffaol Wings were invented here and nobody makes them better
*Ice Wine-the Finger Lakes
Grapes have to freeze on the vine before you can call it "Ice
Wine." The Finger Lakes region is one of the best landscapes in the U.S. There are over 100 wineries here.
*White Hots-Heids, Liverpool
Do you want a white or a red and why is a white hot a Coney?
*BBQ&Sauce-the Dinosaur, Syracuse
Bill Clinton's favorite barbecue joint (in NY??!!)
*Upstate Fish Fry-Dougs in Skaneateles
No one does an upstate fish fry better than Doug
*Pancake Flour-New Hope Mills
Organic pancake mixes in a stunning upstate location
*Spiedies-SpiedieFest in the Southern Tier
Exquisitely marinated chicken and beef
*Grape Pie-Grape Festival, Naples
The grape pie is unique to the Finger Lakes region. If you've
never tried one, the it's definitely worth a trip to this beautiful part of Upstate New York
*The unique Central New York delicacy-SALT POTATOES
They're hard to find in restaurants. Try our recipe.

More to Come! Send us your ideas.

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Videos Edited on FORscene

Saturday, April 18, 2009

The videos and DVD's -we're looking for ideas

Fifteen videos are done and you can view them on this site.

The first ten are available on DVD. Go to http://www.c3video.com/ to buy our DVD. The next set of five videos are not on DVD yet. We're working on five more for another DVD release.

Upstate New York has many more unique, original foods and eateries. If you have ideas for more videos, let us know here.

Video Feedback

We value your feedback. Watch the videos and let us know what you think. Is there anything else we should know about the places we visited.? Have you ever been to any of the great eateries featured in the videos? Did you ever make any of the great foods? Tell us your story.

The People Who Made "Salt Potatoes"

Steve Keeler is an award winning video producer and a professor at Cayuga Community College in Auburn, NY

Michael Hollingworth is a former BBC producer and correspondent. He has been a visiting professor at Cayuga several times.

Cayuga students Jeff Newell, Sean Horsford, Jade Williams, Dan Carter and Trevor Field worked on the Grape Pie, Spiedie, New Hope Mills, Buffalo Wing, Fish Fry, and Salt Potatoes segments.

Trevor, student teacher Steve Roder, and high school students Colin Hewitt, Ben Keeler and Becca Keeler worked on the Heids, Dinosaur, Ice Wine, and Garbage Plate segments.

Jade is our host and did the narration for eight of the ten segments. Tiffany Collinsworth narrated the Heids segment and Felicia Wickman narrated the Dinosaur segment. They're both Cayuga students.

Doug Brill was our engineer and provided invaluable technical support

Nate Vitale, a wine saleman who teaches wine appreciation at Cayuga is the expert in the Ice Wine segment.

About the "Salt Potatoes" Project

"Please Pass the Salt Potatoes" started as a project in Professor Steve Keeler's Documentary Production class in the award-winning Telecommunications Dept. at Cayuga Community College, a unit of the State University of New York.

"Salt Potatoes" and the documentary class are part of Prof . Keeler's NEW-FOR project. NEW-FOR requires students to produce documentaries about their own region - Upstate New York. In doing so, students take a fresh look at Upstate New York and discover its people, vitality and beauty. It encourages students to stay in Upstate New York after college graduation. A project like "Salt Potatoes" also encourages travel and tourism throughout the region.

The class was co-taught by Visiting Professor Michael Hollingworth and supported, in part, by a Labeille grant from the college's Foundation.

In January 2007, the project adopted FORscene, the revolutionary online video editing program, as its editing software. Cayuga is the first U.S. college to use FORscene.

In the summer of 2007, high school students, from the college's Adventures In Television program, became involved in the project.

Today, the project continues as an independent venture. More videos are being produced. A DVD is available at www.C3Studios.com. Fnding is being sought for a guidebook and cookbook.