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ArtBites; MoneyMaker Water Pump; Drink Vinegar; Chicken Knees
Learn about a cooking class that combines art history; drinking vinegars; how to use worms to recycle your kitchen waste. Go knee-deep in chicken knees and hot wings, discover a company that uses a water pump to solve rural poverty and celebrate Dia de los Reyes Magos. Plus, find out about a restaurant that plans on using breast milk as an ingredient and get a fresh Market Report with Laura Avery.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1h 0m ListenMaite Gomez-Rejón combines cooking lessons with art history, while Toby Cecchini highlights drinking vinegars. Cathy Nesbitt raises worms for composting kitchen waste, Eddie Lin goes crazy for hot wings and chicken knees; and Martin Fisher creates a revolutionary water pump as a means to solving rural poverty. Plus, chef Vicente del Rio celebrates Dia de los Reyes Magos,Dana Harris talks about a Swiss restaurant’s plan to use breast milk as ingredient and Laura Avery serves up a fresh Market Report.
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8 storiesThe Market Report
Laura Avery talks with Mark Peel, who loves to cook Brussels sprouts this time of year. The chef-owner of Campanile restaurant sautés them quickly in olive oil until they start to color, then adds 1/4 inch of balsamic vinegar and allows them to boil quickly until the sprouts caramelize.
Read the story6 minArtBites
Maite Gomez-Rejón combines cooking lessons with art history as part of her program, ArtBites : Cooking Art History. Both a culinary and art historian, Gomez-Rejón has worked in the education departments of several museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art , MoMA , LACMA and the Getty Villa . Louise Moillon: Still…
Read the story7 minDrinking Vinegars
Bartender-writer Toby Cecchini talks about drinking vinegars and making "shrub" out of fresh fruit. Shrub is the American version of drinking vinegar and it's still popular in the South. The inventor of the Cosmopolitan cocktail, Cecchini is author of Cosmopolitan : A Bartender's Life.
Read the story7 minWorm Composting
Worm advocate Cathy Nesbitt raises red wiggler worms for "vermicomposting," composting kitchen waste into fertilizer. Nesbitt, whose company is Cathy’s Crawly Composters , in Ontario, Canada, is also the subject of the new documentary, Squirm . Music break: El Gatillo (Trigger Revisited) by Calexico
Read the story8 minHot Wings and Chicken Knees
Deep End Dining blogger Eddie Lin goes crazy for hot wings and chicken knees. He samples the extremely hot Atomic chicken wings at Alondra Hot Wings in Paramount. He eats chewy fried chicken knees as dim sum at King Hua in Alhambra. These morsels of cartilage are coated in a garlic batter, seasoned with spices and garnished with fried seaweed.
Read the story8 minMoneyMaker Water Pump
Social entrepreneur Martin Fisher developed the MoneyMaker pump as a mean to solve rural poverty by accessing fresh water.
Read the story8 minDia de los Reyes Magos
Vicente del Rio, chef-owner of Frida restaurant in Beverly Hills, celebrates El día de los reyes magos by baking rosca de reyes cake. The crown-shaped bread is decorated with candied fruit. Baked inside is a tiny figurine, symbolizing Baby Jesus.
Read the story7 minServing Breast Milk
Dana Harris shares her thoughts on Swiss Storchen restaurant's plan to use human breast milk as an ingredient. Dana writes Variety ’s food blog, The Knife . Hotel zum Storchen Am Weinplatz 2 CH-8001 Zürich 22 Switzerland +41 44 227 27 27
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