Good Food
Black Truffles; Christmas Desserts; Forbidden Wines
This week on Good Food with Evan Kleiman, we'll celebrate Christmas with black truffles, sweets, Korean porridge and Moroccan wines. Plus, Russ Parsons of the LA Times is here to share his favorite book title of 2010.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1h 0m ListenMerry Christmas! We're celebrating with black truffles. Joachim Splichal of The Patina Restaurant Group is living it up with a celebration of this decadent fungus. We'll talk Christmas sweets from Bon Appetit with Barbara Fairchild. Although alcohol is forbidden in Islam, it is widely available in Morocco. Sommelier Stacie Hunt tells us about Morocco's wine production. The LA Times' Russ Parsons reveals his favorite food book of 2010. We'll find out what "good meat" actually is from Deborah Krasner. Jonathan Gold warms us up with Korean abalone porridge. And we'll find out what's on Dorie Greenspan's French table.
Truffle photo above from Erika Penzer Kerekes of In Erika's Kitchen.
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Benjamin Bailly is the chef at Fraiche in Culver City. He is making a loup de mer, a Mediterranean seabass dish with sunchokes, crosnes, salsifi and mushrooms. The recipe is here .
Read the story7 minFood Trends 2010
Russ Parsons is the editor of the Los Angeles Times' food section. He and Evan agree that the most notable food trend of 2010 is the food truck and the new restaurant genres (food trucks, pop-ups). Russ' favorite book is As Always Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto .
Read the story7 minBlack Truffles
Chef Joachim Splichal of The Patina Group and Patina restaurant , celebrates this season with black truffles from France. He shaves black truffles on a salad or in a risotto. They are hosting two dinners on January 11 & 12 at Patina featuring the black truffle. Recipes from Patina for the black truffle are here .
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Deborah Krasner is the author of Good Meat:The Complete Guide to Sourcing and Cooking Sustainable Meat
Read the story7 minForbidden Wines
Stacie Hunt is a sommelier with Du Vin Wine and Spirits and Splash Productions. Find a list of restaurants that Stacie recommends serving Moroccan wines here , as well as some of her favorite labels from the region.
Read the story7 minKorean Porridge
If you're nursing a hangover, the L.A. Weekly's Jonathan Gold recommends heading to Koreatown for porridge. Bon Juk offers abalone porridge, or jeonbokjuk, that includes rice, water and abalone. Mountain is another option for porridge.
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Barbara Fairchild, formerly of Bon Appetit, edited their latest cookbook Bon Appetit Desserts . The recipe for their spiced chocolate ribbon cake is here .
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Tom Hudgens is the author of The Commonsense Cookbook , a compilation of recipes from Deep Springs , a men's college in the Sierras. The school emphasizes three tenets: academics, labor and self-reliance.
Read the story7 minAround Dorie's Table
Dorie Greenspan is a prolific cookbook author. Her latest is Around My French Table . One of her most popular recipes is Pumpkin Stuffed with Everything Good.
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