PRK On The Air: Brisket and Bread

Boston Brisket Company. Photo: Jesse Costa

It’s almost St. Patty’s Day and it’s a yummy day for your ears.  Sue told us about Here & Now’s Irish Soda Bread competition and if you miss the broadcast at noon, NEVER fear: get the whole story (and recipes) here.

Jack Epstein. Photo: Jesse Costa

At 3pm EST, Radio Boston will tell you the story of Jack Epstein and his Boston Brisket Company.

We took a tour of the Newmarket Square plant and let me tell you, these people make a lot of grey corned beef.  Epstein says his employees have been working six days a week for the past seven weeks and that they’ll pull in about a million bucks just with their grey corned beef sales.  Co-host Anthony Brooks also went down to Doyles in Jamaica Plain (they buy their brisket exclusively from BBC) to taste the final product.

Don’t miss the amazing audio slideshow!

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Associate Producer, Here & Now Most recently, Jessica worked as an associate producer at WBUR's daily local program, Radio Boston. Jessica moved to Boston in 2008 and has lived many places since leaving her native Texas. After graduating from college, Jessica worked as a federal employee, documentary film festival producer, oral historian, university teaching assistant, traveling saleswoman and klezmer musician. Her work and projects have appeared in The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, Bust, Barnard Magazine, National Public Radio, Public Radio International (PRI), and the BBC. Jessica's freelance radio work has received various awards including accolades from the Religion Newswriters Association and the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. As a Fulbright Scholar in El Salvador, Jessica collected and studied oral histories from the Jewish Community based in San Salvador. Jessica received her B.A. in political science from Columbia University’s Barnard College and her M.A. in history from Indiana University. She learned how to make radio from the phenomenal folks at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Jessica lives in Somerville with her husband, twin son and daughter, and two cats. To learn more about Jessica’s projects, both current and past, please visit www.jessicaalpert.com.