The price of pork, giant marrow and an Asian fried chicken crawl

Hosted by Evan Kleiman Aug. 27, 2016 Food & Drink

Phillip Vowles talks about growing armchair-sized vegetables in Wales, then Christian Schwarz gives us a primer on California mushrooms and reporter David Jackson discusses his investigation into the hog business in Illinois. We also get tips for cooking and growing tomatoes from The Bazaar's Holly Jivin and Pernille Carpenter of Coastal Organics. Plus, Jonathan Gold's favorite Asian fried chicken spots and Sonoko Sakai's recipe for bacon and scrambled egg onigiri.

From this Episode:

The giant veg specialist

Phillip Vowles has been growing vegetables in Wales for more than 30 years. But these aren't your average veg. His ginormous zucchini, known as marrow in those parts, are...

7 min

Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast

Fungi are among the oldest living things on Earth. Mycologist Paul Stamets believes they can be used to clean polluted soil, create insecticides and even treat smallpox and...

11 min

Tomato time!

This time of year, our farmers markets are full of red, purple, yellow and orange tomatoes — from pint-sized Sungolds to heirlooms to other more robust varieties for sauces....

8 min

The price of pork

Last month, the Chicago Tribune began to publish the findings of a nine-month deep dive into the Illinois pork industry. In recent years, hundreds of new industrial hog...

13 min

Rice craft

Imagine warm, hand-shaped triangles of rice sprinkled or filled with salted salmon or Japanese pickled vegetables that are wrapped in roasted nori. These are onigiri or, as...

10 min

An Asian fried chicken crawl through LA

Jonathan Gold closes out this week's show with the scoop on where to find the best Asian fried chicken in Los Angeles. "There are so many chicken frying traditions all...

6 min