Good Food
Best Wine; Tastiest Chips; SNL Seder; Sinaloan Cuisine
We eat intense Sinaloan cuisine, experience a special Saturday Night Live Seder and sample the tastiest chips on the market. We sip the best wine in the world, cook bubbly casseroles and learn about the Sonoma County meat buying club. Plus, we brew whole bean chocolate and search for lost ravioli recipes.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1h 0m ListenJonathan Gold eats intense Sinaloan cuisine, while Laraine Newman experiences a special Saturday Night Live Seder. Jeremy Selwyn samples the tastiest chips on the market, writer Mike Steinberger sips the best wine in the world and Clifford Wright cooks bubbly casseroles. Marissa Guggiana organizes the Sonoma County meat buying club, Rob Polevoi brews whole bean chocolate and Laura Schenone searches for her family’s lost ravioli recipes. Plus, Laura Avery finds what’s in season in the Market Report.
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9 storiesThe Market Report
Laura Avery chats with Zoe Nathan, who is the pastry chef at Rustic Canyon Wine Bar on Wilshire in Santa Monica. She and proprietor Josh Loeb do a Saturday brunch from 9am to 1pm. Featured are Zoe's baked goods including her blueberry corn muffins.
Read the story8 minSinaloan Cuisine
Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic and LA Weekly columnist Jonathan Gold eats chilorio (bright orange, cumin and chile stewed pork) and Sinaloan machaca (dried beef that's grilled, then pounded in a mortar and crisply fried) at El Sinaloense in Huntington Park.
Read the story6 minSNL Seder and My Muslim Passover
Actress and voice-over artist Laraine Newman talks about experiencing an impromptu Seder in the Saturday Night Live studios using the available food at hand. She is a founding member of Saturday Night Live and is now a contributing writer for online magazine, One for the Table , in which her recent SNL Seder article appears.
Read the story7 minTastiest Chips
Potato chip aficionado Jeremy Selwyn samples the tastiest chips on the market. His favorites are Walkers Crisps, flavors include beef and onion, from England and Tim's Cascade Style chips, which you can find in the United States.
Read the story7 minBest Wine in the World
Slate wine columnist Mike Steinberger decants the best wine in the world, the 1947 Chateau Chevel Blanc which sells for $12,000 a bottle. You can read more about this wine in Steinberger's recent Slate article . Music break: Oceans of Venus by Dengue Fever
Read the story7 minCasseroles
Author Clifford Wright cooks delicious casseroles from around the world in his latest work, Bake Until Bubbly : The Ultimate Casserole Cookbook. It includes new and improved classic recipes as well as some upscale and unusual ones.
Read the story7 minMeat CSA
Marissa Guggiana organized a group of cattle ranchers in Sonoma and Marin counties to provide grass-fed, free-range meats in partnership with the University of California Cooperative Extension in Sonoma County . She's started a meat community supported agriculture, CSA, and formed the meat buying club.
Read the story4 minBrewed Chocolate
Cabaret Chocolates founder Rob Polevoi brews whole bean chocolate. It's made from whole cacao beans and evaporated cane juice. Polevoi was inspired by the chocolate drinks of the Aztecs, who drank their chocolate for its effects and not just the flavor. Music break: One Step Ahead by Big John Patton
Read the story5 minThe Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken
Laura Schenone travels to Italy to find her great grandmother's ravioli recipe in her book, The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken : A Search for Food and Family.
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