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    Good Food

    Animal

    Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic and LA Weekly columnist Jonathan Gold feasts on the manly food at Animal , located in Fairfax's "dude" district.

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    By Evan Kleiman • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic and LA Weekly columnist Jonathan Gold feasts on the manly food at Animal, located in Fairfax's "dude" district. He recommends the fried hominy, raw amberjack with peach and mint, foie gras with biscuit and gravy, turbot with shell beans and tomato, quail fry and the bacon-chocolate crunch bar (seen above) for dessert.

    Music break: Blue Moon by The Checkmates

    The full episode

    5 of 8
    Tarahumara Nutrition; Argentine Ants; Royal Meals; Pollinators Plunge
    1. 1:00The Market Report
    2. 8:41Cooking Royal Meals
    3. 15:50Argentine Ants
    4. 23:38Tarahumara Nutrition
    5. 31:09AnimalYou’re reading this
    6. 38:30Didier Dagueneau's Legacy
    7. 44:09The Impending Agricultural Crisis
    8. 51:16Food Safety Songs
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      Evan Kleiman

      host 'Good Food'

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      Bob Carlson

      host and producer, 'UnFictional'

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      Jennifer Ferro

      Jennifer Ferro, President, KCRW, Los Angeles

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      Thea Chaloner

      Supervising Producer, Good Food

      CultureFood & Drink

    The full episode

    5 of 8
    Tarahumara Nutrition; Argentine Ants; Royal Meals; Pollinators Plunge
    1. 1:00The Market Report
    2. 8:41Cooking Royal Meals
    3. 15:50Argentine Ants
    4. 23:38Tarahumara Nutrition
    5. 31:09AnimalYou’re reading this
    6. 38:30Didier Dagueneau's Legacy
    7. 44:09The Impending Agricultural Crisis
    8. 51:16Food Safety Songs
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