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Crispy Pork Gang; Goat Milk Soap; Is Kosher Safer?
Goat milk isn't just for cheese. One family's making soap with their excess milk. Lessons in cooking with economy and grace. Plus, is kosher meat safer than non-kosher?
By Evan Kleiman • • 57m ListenThe Chinese New Year is almost here. Grace Young is ringing in the Year of the Dragon with her kitchen god at the stove. Tamar Adler reminds us that there is no such thing as a cooking failure. Author Marissa Guggiana describes the memorable, and the not-so-memorable, staff meals served in restaurants across America. Crispy Pork Gang is not a gang at all, but the name of a new restaurant in Thai Town. Jonathan Gold pays it a visit and says the pork is “unusually good.” Dr. Maya Shetreat-Klein defines Kosher slaughter and Matt McAllester shares tall tales of journalists' food adventures during wartime. Plus, PJ Jonas
explains how to make soap from goat's milk.
Banner image: Family Meal at Blue Hill Stone Barns
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Chef Nathan Lyon is a television personality and chef on PBS. His latest show is Growing a Greener World . In December, 2011 he published his first cookbook, Good Food Starts Fresh. You’ll find a recipe for his Sweet Potato-Carrot Soup with Candied Spiced Pecans on the Good Food Blog .
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Grace Young is the author of several wonderful books on Chinese cooking including, The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen , The Breath of a Wok and, most recently, Stir Frying to the Sky’s Edge .
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Tamar Adler is the author of An Everlasting Meal : Cooking with Economy and Grace. She advocates a thoughtful pantry and utilizing every ingredient, including onions skins and the hard outer layers of fennel, for economical and delicious meals. You'll find an outtake from this conversation on the Good Food Blog .
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Marissa Guggiana is the author of Off the Menu : Staff Meals from America’s Top Restaurants. A recipe for Blackbird's Duck Fried Chicken and Waffles with Coleslaw is on the Good Food Blog .
Read the story8 minA Gang Devoted to Crispy Pork
Jonathan Gold visits Crispy Pork Gang, an oddly named restaurant in Thai Town. He says they serve an "unusually good" crispy pork. His favorite preparations were crispy pork stir fried with mint leaves and crispy pork served with morning glory. He also likes the crispy rice salad.
Read the story5 minDoes Kosher Mean Safer?
Dr. Maya Shetreat-Klein is a pediatric neurologist and expert in some of the direct healthy benefits of pasture raised meat. In 2008, she started Mitzvah Meat and Mindful Meat, a co-op bringing local, grass-fed, humanely raised and slaughtered meat and chicken to both kosher and non-kosher communities.
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Matt McAllester is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar : Stories of Food During Wartime by the World's Leading Correspondents.
Read the story8 minGoat Milk Soap
PJ Jonas, along with her husband and eight children, lives on a three-acre homestead in rural Indiana. Instead of making cheese, they make goat milk soap with their goats’ milk. Their company is Goat Milk Stuff .
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