Good Food
Latkes; Halal Fast Food; Lizard Buffet; Jonathan Gold
The holiday season is upon us and that means latkes and Christmas cookies this week on Good Food. Host Evan Kleiman finds out about a new lizard species discovered in a Vietnamese lunch buffet. And Jonathan Gold takes us to Koreatown.
By Evan Kleiman • • 58m ListenThis week on Good Food with Evan Kleiman, celebrate Hanukkah with latkes. Amelia Saltsman shares her family's favorite recipe. Baker Abby Dodge is in holiday mode too. She is making cookies using only four ingredients. Evan Kleiman takes Jimmy Shaw and Diana Kennedy to a taco truck in East LA. We'll talk LA street food and the law with Ernesto Hernandez. Herpetologist Lee Grismer explains how a new species of lizard was discovered in a Vietnam lunch buffet. Frank Browning returns to Good Food to talk apples and he tells us how a French fast food restaurant has caused a stir over serving halal meat. Fermented foods are all the rage, says Burkhard Bilger of The New Yorker. And Jonathan Gold is here with a restaurant for us to try in Koreatown.
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Amelia Saltsman is the author of The Santa Monica Farmers Market Cookbook .
Read the story9 min4-Ingredient Holiday Cookies
Abby Dodge is a baker and a contributing editor to Fine Cooking magazine. Her new book is Desserts 4 Today: Flavorful Desserts with Just Four Ingredients . A recipe for her Grown-up Chocolate Bourbon Balls is here . Music Break: Slide Show by El Michel's affair
Read the story6 minDiana Kennedy at a Taco Truck
Diana Kennedy is a long time scholar of Mexican food. She lives and works in the Michoacan region of Mexico. Her latest book is Oaxaca al gusto . A picture of Diana, Jimmy and Evan is here . Music Break: Everybody Eats When They Come To My House by Cab Calloway
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Ernesto Hernandez is a law professor at Chapman University. Read more about taco trucks and the law here .
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Lee Grismer is a herpetologist at La Sierra University in Riverside, CA. He and his son identified a new species of lizard after a colleague ate it at a Vietnamese lunch buffet. More about it, including a picture, here . Music Break: Ghost Town (Instrumental) by Zeep
Read the story8 minApples
Frank Browning is a writer and reporter. His book An Apple Harvest is now out in paperback. His Winter Apple Salad recipe is here.
Read the story7 minHalal Meat in French Fast Food
Frank Browning, who lives in France, discusses how the country has prevented Quick, the hamburger chain from selling halal meat . Read about Quick's foie gras hamburger here . Music Break: God Moving Over The Face Of The Water by Moby
Read the story5 minKorean Clams
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