This Week On Good Food: Gin, California’s Foie Gras Ban, The Flavor of Cannabis

On July 1st California will be the first state in the nation to ban the sale, serving and production of foie gras. Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo of Animal and Son of a Gun Restaurants say the ingredient is irreplaceable in the kitchen and Lesley Barger Suter of Los Angeles Magazine questions who will be responsible for enforcing the ban. Speaking of illegal substances, Producer Gillian Ferguson ventures to find out more about medical marijuana edibles. She watches as Joey – aka Big Sexy – of Big Sexy’s Sinful Sweets makes “cannabutter” and attends a private dinner hosted by Nguyen Tran and Laurent Quenioux of Starry Kitchen in which the flavor of cannabis is the star of the show. Nancy Radke details how a series of earthquakes in the parmesan producing region of Italy has devastated parmesan producers. Jonathan Gold takes us to South LA for Yucatan food and Dr. Carson Chow spells out the mathematics of obesity. (You can access his body weight simulator here.) Plus, Good Food Segment Producer Laryl Garcia talks to Lesley Jacobs Solmonson about the history of gin and bartender Tim Loden of Comme Ca walks us through a Classic Gin Cocktail.