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Last Meals; Pie Mas; Mindless Eating
Mike Randleman is documenting the last meal requests of death row prisoners and Al Elia has initiated a holiday in pie's honor. Dr. Rayner Hesse is cooking with the Bible and Helen Palit has found a way to recycle food. Donna Cavato shows us how schools are benefiting in the rebirth of New Orleans and Professor Wansink says that we will just keep eating until our plates are empty- whether we're hungry or not.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1h 0m ListenMike Randleman is documenting the last meal requests of death row prisoners and Al Elia has initiated a holiday in pie's honor. Dr. Rayner Hesse is cooking with the Bible and Helen Palit has found a way to recycle food. Donna Cavato shows us how schools are benefiting in the rebirth of New Orleans and Professor Wansink says that we will just keep eating until our plates are empty- whether we're hungry or not.
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8 storiesMarket Report - Roast Carrots and Beans
Laura Avery meets up with Mark Gold, chef of Leatherby’s Café Rouge in Costa Mesa and he tells us how to roast carrots, especially the lovely nantes variety from McGrath’s and Weiser Farms. The trick is to cut your carrots to the same size. Roast them on a cookie sheet with garlic, cut up slices of bacon, a pat of butter and thyme.
Read the story6 minMindless Eating
Did you know that the size of the bowl you eat out of, the proximity of food to your person and how much food is on display will determine exactly how much you eat? It has nothing to do with hunger. Big glasses, large plates and abundant displays of food will make you eat up to 70% more food per meal. And you won’t even know it.
Read the story8 minForget Christmas, Celebrate Pie-mas
Good Food podcaster Al Elia loves pie. Each year Al and a group of his friends get together to celebrate the noble pastry. They call their celebration: Piemas . Every dish in the meal from appetizer to main course to dessert is, of course, pie.
Read the story6 minWhat Would Jesus Eat?
Rev. Dr. Rayner Hesse, Jr. leads an Episcopalian parish in New Rochelle, NY, and has a passion for cooking that he developed at an early age. He is co-author (with Anthony F. Chiffolo) of Cooking with the Bible: Biblical Food, Feasts and Lore .
Read the story7 minDead Man Eating
If you were scheduled to die what would your last meal be? Let us know. Email us at goodfood@kcrw.com In 2006 fifty people made their last meal requests. Mike Randleman maintains a website all about the people on deathrow and their last meal choices.
Read the story6 minEat Your Schoolyard
Across the country, many of us may periodically think about the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. But for those in New Orleans, it is still a daily struggle to put their lives back together. Through a program called Edible Schoolyard , Donna Cavato is helping to rebuild a school and to restore some beauty and joy to the lives of the students…
Read the story6 minDoggie Bags On a Large Scale
Everyday people in Los Angeles struggle to find their next meal. And everyday hundreds of pounds of perfectly prepared food from restaurants and events is thrown into the garbage.
Read the story6 minNigel Slater
Nigel Slater is an award-winning British food writer and journalist. He has written a column for The Observer Magazine for over a decade and is the principal writer for the Observer Food Monthly supplement. Here he talks about a year in his life with food in The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater.
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