Good Food The Silk Road show Hosted by Evan Kleiman Sep. 23, 2017 Food & Drink Listen 57 min MORE Photo: Beef plov pictured in “Samarkand” courtesy of Caroline Eden From this Episode: Jonathan Gold dines at Delicious Food Corner LA Times food writer Jonathan Gold dines at Delicious Food Corner in Monterey Park, a restaurant he calls “the most Hong Kong place in the San Gabriel Valley.” Dim sum... 5 min Unveiling Uzbek culinary traditions Samarkand sits in Uzbekistan on the ancient Silk Road. Food and travel writer Caroline Eden uses the Russian nesting dolls matryoshka as a metaphor to describe the Uzbek... 10 min 'Taste of Persia' Think about Persia and an expansive understanding of an ancient gastroculture that includes many lands and peoples comes into focus. Food writer and photographer Naomi... 18 min 'The Saffron Tales' We kicked off the show with Jonathan Gold’s favorite Hong Kong-style breakfast in Los Angeles. Now, we turn the mic over to writer Yasmin Khan to hear about breakfast food... 8 min Controlling weeds, at a cost Earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency approved the use of a new formula for an herbicide called dicamba. Soybean and cotton farmers use it to halt the... 7 min The Market Report: kale This week at the market, Laura Avery shops for kale with Ashley Abodeely, the chef de cuisine of the Nomad Food Truck , and Christie Jimenez who grows kale at Jimenez... 8 min Credits Host: Evan Kleiman Producers: Laryl Garcia, Abbie Fentress Swanson, Joseph Stone, Rosalie Atkinson