Badmaash, tooth pix, the migrant kitchen

Hosted by Evan Kleiman and KCRW Staff Oct. 29, 2016 Food & Drink

Nakul, Arjun and Pawan Mahendro talk chicken tikka poutine, their podcast and the Diwali menu at Badmaash. Dave Green and Joe Cobden share the story behind their 12-second video restaurant reviews on Instagram, and Antonio Diaz discusses the Life & Thyme/KCET documentary The Migrant Kitchen. Plus, The Monster’s Cookbook, persimmons at the market, and Jonathan Gold's new 101 list.

Photo: Diwali menu at Badmaash. (Photo courtesy of Badmaash)

From this Episode:

The persimmon report

The days and nights are finally cooling down in our neck of the woods and for chefs like Kris Tominaga of Mardi , that means it is persimmon season. Learn how Tominaga...

8 min

Got 12 seconds? Here's your restaurant review

One day, over a meal at Kobawoo House in Koreatown, film director Dave Green and actor Joe Cobden decided they wanted to hack the video review feature on Yelp. With the help...

8 min

The monster's cookbook

“Salt Made from Tears of Boredom” and “Tins of Escalating Pain” are not products made by dramatic teenagers. Rather, these items are for sale at Hoxton Street Monster...

7 min

Shout-out to Badmaash!

Diwali celebrations kick off this Sunday. the Festival of the Lights is five days of partying that mark the start of the Hindu New Year.

17 min

The migrant kitchen

A new wave of immigrant second-generation chefs and restaurateurs is shaping the current restaurant scene in Los Angeles.

10 min

Jonathan Gold's 101 Best Restaurants

For the past several months, our favorite food critic Jonathan Gold has been hard at work eating for his annual LA Times listicle of his favorite 101 restaurants in LA ....

6 min