Cannibalism, Swedish meatballs, Syrian kobee and cheese shops

Hosted by Evan Kleiman Apr. 01, 2017 Food & Drink

This week, zoologist Bill Schutt considers the implications of culinary cannibalism, and we visit Tony Danza’s cheese shop in New York City. We also find hundreds of different cheeses on offer at The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills and make a pitstop for Swedish meatball sandwiches at Olson’s Scandinavian Delicatessen before heading to Van Nuys for Syrian kobee with Jonathan Gold.

Photo by Alleva Dairy by Marcella

From this Episode:

‘Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History’

The phrase “eating your young” implies a brutal and savage nature. Au contraire, says zoologist Bill Schutt . He’s studied cannibalism extensively in animals and humans...

15 min

The oldest cheese store in America

OK, back to the realm of “Good Food.” You remember Tony Danza ? He played a single dad, retired baseball player and housekeeper/boyfriend to Angela Bower on the 1980s TV...

15 min

The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills

Next we return to our neck of the woods to sample hundreds of different cheeses. We wish! Seriously though, The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills has 500 different kinds of...

15 min

Make mine a Swedish meatball sandwich

If cheese ain’t your thing, consider gravlax, lingonberry jam and cod roe squeezed from a tube atop a slice of crusty bread. That’s what's on offer at Olson’s Scandinavian...

7 min

Jonathan Gold dines at Kobee Factory and Syrian Kitchen

Syria has long been on our minds since the Arab Spring protests first erupted throughout the Middle East in 2011, and even more so now with President Trump’s recent travel...

5 min