Food & Drink

Don’t trash your fruit peels, chicken bones, and coffee grinds. A new food waste recycling law in California aims to cut methane emissions household by household.

from KCRW Features

The United Farm Workers is struggling to grow its membership and gain attention from state lawmakers. What does its future look like?

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Bill Addison visits Blossom Market Hall in San Gabriel, where a couple from the area return home on a mission to build community by showcasing a spectrum of food options.

New San Gabriel food hall aims to build community — Bill Addison reviews

Bill Addison visits Blossom Market Hall in San Gabriel, where a couple from the area return home on a mission to build community by showcasing a spectrum of food options.

from Good Food

David Owen goes behind the scenes of modern refrigeration — its history and the unintended consequences in its wake.

The consequences of cooling technology are chilling

David Owen goes behind the scenes of modern refrigeration — its history and the unintended consequences in its wake.

from Good Food

Design curator and writer Corinne Mynatt became fascinated with objects she found at flea markets and began researching their history and function.

Tools of the trade: New book explores the design and history of kitchen implements

Design curator and writer Corinne Mynatt became fascinated with objects she found at flea markets and began researching their history and function.

from Good Food

Furloughed from their jobs in the early days of the pandemic, first-time entrepreneurs Rhea and Marcel Michel decided to open a food business.

Mexican and Indian flavors collide at Saucy Chick Rotisserie

Furloughed from their jobs in the early days of the pandemic, first-time entrepreneurs Rhea and Marcel Michel decided to open a food business.

from Good Food

Clocking in at just under 1,000 pages, food writer and editor Amanda Hesser unearths new recipes in the New York Times archives that provide an overarching retrospective of the…

What makes a recipe essential? Amanda Hesser updates a classic

Clocking in at just under 1,000 pages, food writer and editor Amanda Hesser unearths new recipes in the New York Times archives that provide an overarching retrospective of the…

from Good Food

Market correspondent Gillian Ferguson gets the lowdown on greens from Megan Strom of County Line Harvest and Adrian Castro of Coffee Coffee.

Seeing green at the farmer’s market

Market correspondent Gillian Ferguson gets the lowdown on greens from Megan Strom of County Line Harvest and Adrian Castro of Coffee Coffee.

from Good Food

Chopped salad began in 1937 with Hollywood’s Brown Derby Cobb. Like the current TikTok salad craze, bowls of chopped ingredients have been viral ever since.

Chopped salad: Crunchy, customizable, marries well with dressing

Chopped salad began in 1937 with Hollywood’s Brown Derby Cobb. Like the current TikTok salad craze, bowls of chopped ingredients have been viral ever since.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Chef Kavachi Ukegbu is on a mission to introduce West African cuisine to a wider audience starting with fufu, a West African, starchy staple used in lieu of utensils.

Fufu: How to make, eat, and what to pair with the West African staple

Chef Kavachi Ukegbu is on a mission to introduce West African cuisine to a wider audience starting with fufu, a West African, starchy staple used in lieu of utensils.

from Good Food

With its recent appearance at California farmers’ markets, conehead cabbage is a sweet conversation piece, as correspondent Gillian Ferguson discovers.

Rearing its pointy head at the market: Conehead cabbage

With its recent appearance at California farmers’ markets, conehead cabbage is a sweet conversation piece, as correspondent Gillian Ferguson discovers.

from Good Food

Citing climate and health concerns, city leaders in California are slowly taking action to limit the use of gas in both homes and businesses.

Has California seen the end of gas stoves?

Citing climate and health concerns, city leaders in California are slowly taking action to limit the use of gas in both homes and businesses.

from Good Food

Bill Addison returns with a restaurant review of Horses in Hollywood, which he refers to as “the most exhilarating dining experience in the last year,” and discusses what eating out…

Bill Addison reviews the 4 chefs holding the reins at Horses

Bill Addison returns with a restaurant review of Horses in Hollywood, which he refers to as “the most exhilarating dining experience in the last year,” and discusses what eating out…

from Good Food

Arts columnist Carolina Miranda examines Joan Didion’s narrative of the pioneers who made the journey to build California, and the author’s use of a humble potato masher as a literary…

Reflecting on Joan Didion’s CA roots and significance of a family potato masher

Arts columnist Carolina Miranda examines Joan Didion’s narrative of the pioneers who made the journey to build California, and the author’s use of a humble potato masher as a literary…

from Good Food

Writer Cathy Erway describes the process of roasting sesame oil, and gives recommendations for choosing the right bottle for cooking and finishing a dish.

Refreshing the pantry with one of the oldest oils used for cooking

Writer Cathy Erway describes the process of roasting sesame oil, and gives recommendations for choosing the right bottle for cooking and finishing a dish.

from Good Food

Professor Dorinne K. Kondo discusses how the media has failed to represent the AAPI community, most recently in the latest season of “The Great British Bake Off.”

When comfort television gets uncomfortable

Professor Dorinne K. Kondo discusses how the media has failed to represent the AAPI community, most recently in the latest season of “The Great British Bake Off.”

from Good Food

Author and performing artist Michelle Zauner searches for identity and reconciliation following the death of her mother in her memoir, “Crying in H Mart.”

Michelle Zauner (Japanese Breakfast) reflects on food and family in memoir

Author and performing artist Michelle Zauner searches for identity and reconciliation following the death of her mother in her memoir, “Crying in H Mart.”

from Good Food

Baker and pastry chef Roxana Jullapat pays tribute to the modern grain movement by recognizing eight ancient grains that play a vital role in domestic agriculture.

Baker Roxana Jullapat brings mother grains to modern times

Baker and pastry chef Roxana Jullapat pays tribute to the modern grain movement by recognizing eight ancient grains that play a vital role in domestic agriculture.

from Good Food

Food scholar Adrian Miller chronicles the evolution of barbecue, from indigenous peoples in the Americas to the intersection of food and race in the antebellum South.

‘Cooking the Indian way’: The surprising beginnings of American barbecue

Food scholar Adrian Miller chronicles the evolution of barbecue, from indigenous peoples in the Americas to the intersection of food and race in the antebellum South.

from Good Food

Evan Kleiman shares quick recipes for soups that can be made with water instead of broth and are full of vegetables and/or protein-rich legumes and beans.

Try these winter soups packed with veggies, protein-rich legumes and beans

Evan Kleiman shares quick recipes for soups that can be made with water instead of broth and are full of vegetables and/or protein-rich legumes and beans.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand