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First Bite: Apple tarts à la Julia Child

Five-year-old Olive Boog adores Julia Child's apple tarts. Her mother is KCRW digital editor Caitlin Shamberg, and together they make the tarte aux pommes at home using the...

21 min, 6 sec

How to teach your children to eat

Like walking and talking, eating is a developmental process. So what happens when your child can't or won't eat? Enter Dr. Mitchell Katz , director of the Children's...

11 min, 7 sec

Here's what a couple of our favorite food fanatics serve their kids

As we learned from Bee Wilson at the top of the show, we are not hardwired to prefer certain tastes and flavors. Eating patterns are instead shaped by a wide range of...

7 min, 51 sec

Jonathan Gold eats oodles of noodles and a dumpling or two at Miàn

Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer for the LA Times Jonathan Gold takes us to Miàn , a new Sichuan noodle house opened by Tony Xu in San Gabriel. Chef Xu is responsible for...

6 min, 2 sec

Fava bean ricotta toast

Hannibal Lecter may have eaten his fava beans with liver and a nice Chianti but at Good Food this week, fava beans will be eaten on ricotta toast. Fava beans are ancient...

5 min, 19 sec

Make mine a double

We close out the show with something you adults might enjoy once the kids finally go to sleep: a stiff drink distilled from local ingredients.

4 min, 22 sec

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