Celebrity Diet Fails, Friendly Fats, Unpacking Pok Pok LA

Hosted by Evan Kleiman Jan. 09, 2016 Food & Drink

Rebecca Harrington enthralls us with her hilarious attempts to follow celebrity diets; author Nina Teicholz casts doubt on the low fat diet trends of previous decades; Jonathan Gold says there’s a lot to unpack at Andy Ricker’s much-anticipated Pok Pok LA in Chinatown.

Photo: David L. Reamer

From this Episode:

Attempting Celebrity Diets, from Greta Garbo to Beyoncé

In her book, I'll Have What She's Having , author Rebecca Harrington chronicles her hilarious misadventures following the diets of celebrities like Jackie Kennedy, Greta...

8 min

Big Sugar's Public Enemy Number One

Robert Lustig is a professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology at UC San Francisco. His YouTube lecture, Sugar: The Bitter Truth , has been viewed over six...

12 min

Is Fat Our Friend?

In The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat & Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet , author Nina Teicholz casts doubts on the many low fat diet trends that thrived during...

11 min

Just Eat It: Two Filmmakers Find Mountains of Food Waste in Dumpsters

Filmmakers Grant Baldwin and Jenny Rustemeyer take on a food waste challenge in their documentary, Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story . The two vowed to eat only discarded...

10 min

Jonathan Gold Reviews Pok Pok Los Angeles

Jonathan Gold is the Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer for the LA Times. This week, he visits Pok Pok LA , the latest addition to Chef Andy Ricker’s Thai restaurant...

9 min

Market Report: Radicchio

Santa Monica Farmer's Market manager Laura Avery speaks with Nate Peitso, owner of Maggie’s Farm , about radicchio, which reaches peak flavor during the current cold,...

6 min