Good Food
The Waffleizer; Urban Foraging, Agave; Hot Cross Buns
This week on Good Food with Evan Kleiman, meet the wafflizer, go urban foraging with Eddie Lin and dive into some Easter favorites like ham and hot cross buns.
By Evan Kleiman • • 57m ListenThis week on Good Food, Eddie Lin gets a lesson in urban foraging from naturalist Joel Robinson. Ham adorns many Easter tables. Mark Scarbrough explains the many varieties of this delicious cut of meat. Amy Scherber is here with another Easter favorite, hot cross buns. Russ Parsons of the Los Angeles Times talks waffles and waffle irons. Dan Shumski never met a waffle he didn't like -- he calls himself the wafflizer and he can turn any food into a waffle. Gustavo Arellano shares place for birria, or Mexican goat stew, in Orange County. Dr. Marion Nestle explains why agave isn't much better than high fructose corn syrup. A sneak peak at the new season of Bravo's Top Chef Masters with Susan Feniger. And Laura Avery tells us what's fresh at the Santa Monica Farmers Market this week.
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Mark Gold is the chef at Eva restaurant (7458 Beverly Blvd.). He's buying strawberries from Rutiz Farms. Mark makes a strawberry compote and pours it over a foie gras terrine and adds some sprigs of burnt rosemary. He serves the dish with brioche. The berries are delicate, thin-skinned strawberries.
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Amy Scherber owns Amy's Bread in New York City. Her latest book is Amy's Bread .
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Mark Scarbrough is the author of Ham: An Obsession with the Hindquarter with Bruce Weinstein .
Read the story7 minWaffles are Dad Food
(Photo: Stephen Osman, Los Angeles Times) Russ Parsons is the food editor for the Los Angeles Times . Yeast-raised waffles Makes 16 waffles Adapted from Marion Cunningham's recipe in "Modern California Cooking" 1 package active dry yeast 2 cups milk 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, melted 1 tsp salt 1 tsp sugar 2 cups flour…
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Dan Shumski writes the blog Waffleizer .
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Eddie Lin writes the blog DeepEndDining.com . Joel Robinson is the Executive Director for the non-profit organization Naturalist For You .
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Gustavo Arellano is the food editor for the OC Weekly . He also writes the Ask a Mexican Column. This week Gustavo reviews the birria at El Cabrito in Santa Ana.
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Marion Nestle is a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University . Agave is an extract from the agave plant and is higher in fructose than honey or table sugar. It is less processed than high fructose corn syrup but has just as much fructose.
Read the story7 minTop Chef Feniger
Susan Feniger is the owner of Street and the co-owner with Mary Sue Milliken of The Border Grill and Ciudad. Susan will be a contestant on Season 2 of Bravo's Top Chef Masters which premiers April 7. Info about the Street viewing party is here .
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