Culinary Big-Wigs, Alice Waters, Julia Child, Ferran Adria

Guest Interview

Michael Pollan ()

Michael Pollan is the author of the Omnivore’s Dilemma and most recently Food Rules: An Eater's Manifesto. He and Evan outline some food rules to live by.

Music Break: You Don't Have to Be a Baby to Cry by the Bandana Splits

Guest Interview

A Critic in Disguise ()

Ruth Reichl talks about dressing up in disguise when she was the restaurant critic for the New York Times. Her book, Garlic & Sapphires: The Secret Life of A Critic in Disguise, chronicles her adventures eating in costume.

Music Break: Perfidia by the String-A-Longs

Guest Interview

Jonathan Gold on Wolfgang Puck ()

Jonathan Gold discusses Wolfgang Puck's high-end Chinese restaurant, WP24.  Jonathan declares that you can't get a bad dish at this restaurant. Highlights include steam buns with foie gras, Chinese fried rice with Chinese sausage, and Hot and Sour Soup.

WP24
900 W. Olympic Blvd.
Downtown Los Angeles, CA 90015
213-743-8824

All of Jonathan Gold's restaurant suggestions are on the Good Food Restaurant Map.

Music Break: Silver Threats by Buddy James & his Combo

Guest Interview

Julia Child in France ()

Alex Prud'homme, nephew of Julia Child, speaks about the book he wrote with her, My Life in France. It is Child’s reminiscence about the years she and her husband Paul (Prud'homme's great uncle) lived in Paris, Marseille and Provence.

Music break: Giovoani Benvewnti by Armando Trovaioli

Guest Interview

Ferran Adria ()

Colman Andrews' book is Ferran: The Inside Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food, a profile of Ferran Adrià.

Guest Interview

Music to Cook By ()

Alice Waters, owner of Chez Panisse which turns 40 this week, joined KCRW's Tom Schnabel in the DJ booth as part of KCRW's Guest DJ Project. Waters played the following tracks:

1) Nina Simone: I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl
2) Radiohead: Reckoner
3) David Byrne: Independence Day
4) Youssou N'Dour: Tan Bi

Guest Interview

Market Report ()

David Karp is a pomologist with UC Riverside and a freelance writer for the Los Angeles Times food section, where he writes the Market Watch column. This week he describes the Crane Melons sold at Windrose Farm at the Santa Monica Farmers Market. He also discusses the definition of heirloom.

You can see David’s Market Watch column about the Crane Melon here.

Amelia Saltzman is the author of the Santa Monica Farmers Market Cookbook. See all of her melon suggestions on the Good Food Blog. For information on Amelia’s demonstration at the Good Food Festival, click here.

Guest Interview

Mark Bittman ()

Mark Bittman of the New York Times explains his "less-meatatarian" eating and his practice of eating Vegan Before 6.