The Breakfast Show

Hosted by Evan Kleiman Mar. 18, 2017 Food & Drink

We devote this week’s show to the most important meal of the day: breakfast. April McGreger of Farmer’s Daughter gives us a historical account of biscuits, and Chef Josef Centeno serves up his spin on Japanese breakfast at Orsa & Winston. Then Big Bad Breakfast Chef John Currence talks up cornmeal, and Carolyn Phillips shares tips on ordering dim sum. Plus: We’re all about eggs from the farmers market.

Photo courtesy of Ed Anderson

From this Episode:

The KCRW 'Good Food' breakfast montage

In the radio biz, there’s a standard question we ask of all our guests when we do our microphone soundchecks: “What did you have for breakfast?” We kick off The Breakfast...

8 min

April McGreger's biscuit crusade

We can’t talk breakfast without talking biscuits. Though they’re also eaten for lunch and supper, too, biscuits are predominantly a breakfast food, says April McGreger , a...

11 min

Chef Josef Centeno puts his L.A. spin on the traditional Japanese breakfast

Most of the breakfast foods we eat in the US are sweet and hearty, from donuts and pancakes with maple syrup to frosted flakes and biscuits and gravy. At Orsa & Winston in...

6 min

Cornmeal for Big Bad Breakfast

In John Currence ’s world, cornmeal looms large. He’s the man behind the Big Bad Breakfast restaurants in Mississippi and Alabama and author of the cookbook, “ Big Bad...

12 min

"The Dim Sum Field Guide"

Next our breakfast crawl takes us in search of tasty Cantonese dim sum, where an endless parade of small plates and baskets filled with steamed dumplings, buns, balls and...

10 min

It's all about eggs

We could go on about breakfast forever. But since all good things must come to an end, we close out the show at the Santa Monica Farmers Market with an ingredient arguably...

9 min