Good Food
Fruitcake; Fried Chicken Dinners; Lutefisk; Wolfgang Puck's Latest
This week on Good Food with Evan Kleiman, Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer Jonathan Gold reviews Wolfgang Puck's new restaurant, WP24. We'll find out about Slow Food's efforts in Tibet. And KNBC's Joel Grover talks about his revealing report on Southern California farmers markets.
By Evan Kleiman • • 58m ListenTis the season for fruitcake. It's not all bad, says Good Food guest Kate Wheeler. Wolfgang Puck has a new restaurant called WP 24 and Jonathan Gold is here with a review. The farmers markets have been in the news lately, thanks to an investigative report from KNBC's Joel Grover. He talks with Good Food host Evan Kleiman and Laura Avery about how consumers can make the right choices. We'll go to the Sons of Norway Norrona Lodge for the annual lutefisk supper with Deep End Diner Eddie Lin. They're making yak cheese in Tibet, according to Sandra Messick. Lesley Balla knows where to get good fried chicken in LA. Plus CJ Jacobson is trying to figure out what to do with his giant emu eggs that he bought at the Santa Monica Farmers Market.
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7 storiesMarket Report
Fat Uncle Farms sells almond products at the Wednesday Santa Monica Farmers Market. They also sell almonds at the Sunday Main Street (Santa Monica) Farmers Market. They have marzipan, raw almond butter, almond milk and more.
Read the story8 minMoving Beyond Farmers Market Fraud
Joel Grover is an investigative reporter for KNBC . Recently he exposed fraud at Southern California farmers markets. He is joined by Laura Avery, the market manager for the Wednesday Santa Monica farmers market , and the host of Good Food's Market Report. Music Break: Reflection by Henry Mancini
Read the story7 minDeep End Dining's Lutefisk Supper
Eddie Lin writes the blog, Deep End Dining . He attend the annual lutefisk supper at The Sons of Norway Norrona Lodge in Van Nuys. Lutefisk is a Scandinavian dish made from reconstituted lye. Pictures of the lodge and of lutefisk are here. Read Eddie's post here . Music Break: Carrying (instrumental) by Jukebox the Ghost
Read the story7 minYak Cheese
Sandra Messick is a food educator who lives in Los Angeles. She is working with Slow Food on their Tibetan Plateau Yak Cheese Presidium , which hopes to create a viable commercial product for nomads in that area. Read about how some of the cheese is being used here . Music Break: Side By Side (Instrumental) by Lonely Drifter Karen
Read the story7 minFried Chicken Dinners
Lesley Balla is a food writer in Los Angeles. Her blog is Chow Balla . She gives us a roundup of restaurants doing fried chicken dinners here in Los Angeles. Read her post here .
Read the story10 minWolfgang Puck's WP24
Jonathan Gold is the Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer for the LA Weekly . This week he takes us to WP 24, Wolfgang Puck's new restaurant at the top of the Ritz Carlton in Downtown LA. Jonathan likes the shrimp toast, and steak au poivre . WP 24 900 West Olympic Boulevard Los Angeles, CA (213) 743-8824 All of Jonathan's…
Read the story11 minFruitcake
Kate Wheeler's blog is Savour-Fare . A recipe for her family's fruitcake is here . Photo Credit: Kate Wheeler. Music Break: Fruitcake by The Superions
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