Guest Interview

Good Food Sweepstakes ()

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Guest Interview

The Market Report ()

Laura Avery chats with private chef Dave Rubell, who talks about creating a vegetable sauté with the bounty of the market. Create your own with your favorite vegetables. Start with butter and diced shallots. Then add a similarly sized dice of broccoli, corn, asparagus tips, zucchini and anything else you choose.

Where to find those savory shallots, you ask? Farmer Alex Weiser, of Weiser Family Farms, will have shallots beginning this weekend. These brown-skinned, multi-bulbed flavor-enhancers are beloved by chefs for their flavor, which falls somewhere between garlic and onion.

Guest Interview

Chicago-Style Hot Dogs ()

LA Weekly's Pultizer Prize-winning food critic Jonathan Gold hits the LA streets in search of Chicago-style hot dogs. A Chicago-style dog is a Vienna beef frank, yellow mustard, relish, chopped raw onions, celery salt, pickle spear and tomatoes nestled into poppy-seed bun. Jonathan also stumbles upon the "Twinkie dog", a hot dog sandwiched between two deep-fried Hostess Twinkies and garnished with Cheez Whiz.

Marty D’s
230 S Beverly Dr
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
310-273-7771

The Infield
14333 Ventura Blvd
Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
818-501-1850

Portillo’s
8390 La Palma Ave
Buena Park, CA 90620
714-220-6400

QT Chicago Dogs
4344 Woodman Ave
Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
818-386-0111

Vicious Dogs
5231 Lankershim Blvd
North Hollywood, CA 91601
818-985-DOGS (818-985-3647)

Guest Interview

Affordable Wines ()

Wine guru Stacie Hunt of Du Vin Wine & Spirits sips delicious affordable "full" bottle wines.

Du Vin Wine & Spirits
540 N San Vicente Blvd (near Melrose)
West Hollywood, CA 90048
310-855-1161

She recommends the following:

REDS:
’05 Grand Theatre, Bordeaux, France  $ 7.99
’06 Luzon Verde, Jumilla, Spain (Organic) $ 8.99
’04 Chateau Bas, Aix en Provence, France  $9.99
 

WHITES:
’06 Clement Cote du Rhone, France  $ 8.99
’07 Oisly Thesee, Touraine, Loire, France $ 8.99
‘06, Chateau de la CantrieMuscadet Sur Lie, Loire, France  $9.99
’07 Astruc Marsanne, Languedoc, France    $9.99


ROSÉS:
’07 Chateau Bas, Aix en Provence, France  $ 9.99
’05 Sorin, Provence, France  $11.99
’03 Chateau Nodoz, Bordeaux, France  $13.99

Guest Interview

Kitchen Knives ()

Writer Chad Ward is author of An Edge in the Kitchen: The Ultimate Guide to Kitchen Knives. He offers pointers on how to buy them, keep them razor sharp, and use them like a pro.

Ward recommends Forschner's Victorinox 8-inch chef's knife - available at most cultery store for $20.