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Best Cookbooks of 2011, Holiday Beer, Glogg
An expert tells us her favorite cookbooks of 2011. Plus, holiday beer selections and a lesson in how to make Swedish Glögg offer alternatives to wine.
By Evan Kleiman • • 57m ListenTired of bringing wine as a hostess gift? Why not try beer? Hallie Beaune of the Beer Chicks suggests holiday beers that will rival your best bottle of wine. And speaking of wine, have you tried glögg? Deep End Diner Eddie Lin attends the Swedish Christmas Festival in Los Angeles and gets a taste of the mulled spiced wine. Jonathan Gold introduces us to a bäco. Celia Sack, owner of Omnivore Books on Food, dishes on her favorite cookbooks of 2011 and Evan talks to one of her favorite cookbook authors, Zoe Francois, about how to make pizza in just five minutes a day. Plus, Texas Agricultural Commissioner Todd Staples discusses the effects of the largest drought in Texas history.
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Amelia Saltsman , author of the Santa Monica Farmers' Market Cookbook , gives us an easy recipe for homemade applesauce. This applesauce is not sweet, but instead is meant to be paired with savory foods like latkes or grilled meats. Her recipe is on the Good Food Blog .
Read the story8 minTexas Drought
Todd Staples is the Agricultural Commissioner for the state of Texas, which is in the midst of the worst drought in the state's history. Ranchers are selling off livestock because of the inability to feed them.
Read the story9 minThe Baco Finds a Home at Baco Mercat
Chef Joseph Centeno, the executive chef at the Lazy Ox Canteen in downtown LA, recently opened Bäco Mercat . Jonathan Gold describes the bäco as a flatbread, about the size of a papusa, with inventive toppings like pork belly, beef carnitas, romesco and salbitxada or merguez sausage, harissa and goat cheese.
Read the story7 minHoliday Brews
Hallie Beaune and her partner, Christina Perozzi, are the Beer Chicks . Beaune talks about her favorite holiday brews of 2011. She likes to purchase the holiday beers now when they are available and keep them in her beer fridge to open in the summer months or perhaps drink during next year's holiday season.
Read the story8 minBest Cookbooks of 2011
Celia Sack is the owner of Omnivore Books on Food in San Francisco.
Read the story9 minArtisan Pizza in Five Minutes a Day
Zoe Francois and Jeff Hertzberg are the authors of Artisan Pizza and Flatbread in Five Minutes a Day . The book includes recipes for pizza dough, a variety of flatbread doughs and even a brioche dough with which they make sweet pizzas.
Read the story8 minA Swedish Christmas
Deep End Diner Eddie Lin visits the 28th Annual Swedish Christmas Fair at the Shrine Auditorium. He eats pea soup, pancakes, lingonberry jam, Swedish meatballs and, of course, glögg, the mulled wine that is popular in Sweden this time of year.
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