Pickles, hot chicken, GMO labeling, antidepressants and taste

Hosted by Evan Kleiman Jul. 30, 2016 Food & Drink

Marion Nestle explains what's in the GMO labeling bill on President Obama's desk. Simran Sethi examines her loss of taste from taking antidepressants. Dianne Jacob gives tips on how to write about food and the Ans discuss their latest venture, a cookbook. Plus: pickling pointers from Little Dom's and a new hot chicken spot to try, per Jonathan Gold.

Photo: Howlin' Rays' hot chicken (Stan Lee)

From this Episode:

A GMO labeling update

Earlier this month, Congress finally passed a GMO labeling bill. Friday afternoon, while we were filing this week's show, President Obama signed the bill into law. Here's...

9 min

Antidepressants and taste

When food writer Simran Sethi's father died, she lost her sense of taste: "There's so much pleasure in food. All of the sudden, there wasn't and I couldn't make sense of it."

9 min

Angelenos, get your hot chicken fix at Howlin' Rays

Once southern food was hard to find at restaurants north of the Mason-Dixon line. Now restaurants all over the country are serving grits, collard greens and waffles piled...

6 min

Pickling 101

Pickling and fermenting are hot on the minds of chefs nowadays. But long before the days of refrigeration, pickling was a necessary means of preserving the seasonal harvest....

10 min

Will write for food

Calvin Trillin has written about food for the New Yorker for decades. It may seem implausible but he doesn't describe food in anything he writes. There is a consensus among...

12 min

An: to eat

According to an old proverb, it is extremely lucky to have five daughters, especially if they are born in a row. Helen An, the matriarch behind the restaurant group House...

12 min