Kosher Tacos, America's Oldest Menus, Best New Sandwich Shop in LA

Guest Interview

Market Report ()

Evan Funke is the executive chef at Rustic Canyon in Santa Monica. Funke is preparing a simple tomato salad with heirloom tomatoes from Windrose Farm and Munak Ranch. To dress the salad he combines the juice of the tomatoes with olive oil for a simple tomato vinaigrette. 

Evan's tomato salad will be featured at Growing Great, a fund raiser hosted by Josh Loeb and Zoe Nathan, owners of Rustic Canyon and Huckleberry in Santa Monica. All proceeds from Growing Great will go to building school gardens and providing nutritional education at elementary schools in the Los Angeles area. Details on the September 26 dinner and online auction can be found here.

Music break: "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" by Linnzi Zaorski

Guest Interview

Feed The Monster ()

Sean Robins, aka The Monster, ate his way through the entire 2011 Los Angeles Zagat Guide. He chronicles his eating adventures on his blog, Feed the Monster.

Guest Interview

Menu Design: Then and Now ()

Jim Heimann is a noted graphic designer in Los Angeles. He edited Taschen's Menu Design in America: 1850-1985.

Guest Interview

Jonathan's Favorite Sandwich Shop ()

Jonathan Gold visits Ink Sack, Michael Voltaggio's sandwich shop on Melrose in West Hollywood. Gold says it's the best sandwich shop to open in the LA area in a long time. Highlights include the CLT, the cold fried chicken and the Reuben sandwiches.

8360 Melrose Ave, Ste 107
West Hollywood, CA 90069
323-651-5866

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

Guest Interview

Counting Every Bite ()

Adam Hoover and Eric Muth are professors at Clemson University who have invented a new gadget to watch your waistline. It's the bite counter.

Guest Interview

The Sticky Thing about Sugar ()

Shelly Schmidt is a professor of Food Chemistry at the University of Illinois. She explains who sugar doesn't actually melt, but decomposes.

Music break: "Sugar Sugar" by The Archies

Guest Interview

Kimchi Chronicles ()

Marja Vongerichten is the host of The Kimchi Chronicles on PBS. Her recently published book, also called The Kimchi Chronicles, is a wonderful guide to Korean cooking at home.

Guest Interview

Kosher Corridor ()

Elina Shatkin of the LA Weekly gives us a culinary tour of a little stretch of Pico Boulevard that she calls the Kosher Corridor. Her restaurant suggestions are:

Factor's Famous Deli
9420 W Pico Blvd
West Los Angeles, CA 90035
310-278-9175

Pico Kosher Deli
8826 W Pico Blvd
West Los Angeles, CA 90035
310-273-9381

Shilo's
8939 W Pico Blvd
West Los Angeles, CA 90035
310-858-1652

Kabab Mahaleh
8762 W Pico Blvd
West Los Angeles, CA 90035
310-275-3000

Schnitzly
9216 W Pico Blvd
West Los Angeles, CA 90035
424-249-3565

MexiKosher
8832 W Pico Blvd
West Los Angeles, CA 90035
310-271-0900

Haifa
8717 W Pico Blvd
West Los Angeles, CA 90035
310-888-7700

Bibi's Warmstone Bakery
8928 W Pico Blvd
West Los Angeles, CA 90035
310-246-1788

Jeff's Gourmet Kosher Sausage Factory
8930 W Pico Blvd
West Los Angeles, CA 90035
310-858-8590