The Best of 'Good Food,' 2014 Edition

Hosted by Evan Kleiman Dec. 27, 2014 Food & Drink

We've selected our favorite segments of the year for our final show of 2014. Our top picks range from donut-slinging luchadors to Soylent, a beverage some have dubbed “the future of food.”

Photo: Naomi Harris

From this Episode:

The Breakfast Bible

Seb Emina, also known as Malcolm Eggs, is the editor of the London Review of Breakfast and the author of the book The Breakfast Bible . He talks about how a lack of...

8 min

Donut Man of East LA

Carolina Miranda’s story “ The Donut Man of East LA ” appeared in the tenth issue of Lucky Peach magazine. She tells the story of Abel Nabor Campos who left his town of...

7 min

The Buttermilk Drop

Dwight Henry is best known as an actor with roles in the award-winning films 12 Years a Slave and Beasts of the Southern Wild. But in his civilian life in New Orleans, he...

8 min

Soylent, Is It the Future of Food?

Rob Rhinehart is the CEO of Soylent . He crowd-sourced $3 million in funding for the beverage, plus, $1.5. million in private capital. Evan Kleiman tastes soylent and...

7 min

Jonathan Gold Reviews Porridge and Puffs

Jonathan Gold is the Pulitzer Prize-winning Food Writer for the LA Times. This week he reviews Porridge and Puffs , a porridge pop-up inside Field Trip. He recommends the...

7 min

The Untold Story of Alcohol in American Literature

Olivia Laing is the author of The Trip to Echo Spring , a book about her literary journey across the US, tracking the role alcohol played in the lives of extraordinary...

9 min

Are Placebo Cocktails Enough to Get a Buzz?

Adam Rogers is the author of the new book Proof: The Science of Booze . In the book he documents a University of Washington study that examined the placebo effect when it...

8 min