Good Food
Cannibalism, Swedish meatballs, Syrian kobee and cheese shops
This week, zoologist Bill Schutt considers the implications of culinary cannibalism, and we visit Tony Danza’s cheese shop in New York City. We also find hundreds of different cheeses on offer at The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills and make a pitstop for Swedish meatball sandwiches at Olson’s Scandinavian Delicatessen before heading to Van Nuys for Syrian kobee with Jonathan Gold.
By Evan Kleiman • • 56m ListenPhoto by Alleva Dairy by Marcella
In this episode
5 stories‘Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History’
The phrase “eating your young” implies a brutal and savage nature. Au contraire, says zoologist Bill Schutt . He’s studied cannibalism extensively in animals and humans and has found that it occurs much more commonly than we’d like to think. His new book is “ Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History .”
Read the story15 minThe oldest cheese store in America
OK, back to the realm of “Good Food.” You remember Tony Danza ? He played a single dad, retired baseball player and housekeeper/boyfriend to Angela Bower on the 1980s TV sitcom, “Who’s the Boss?” Bet you didn’t know he now owns a cheese store in New York City.
Read the story15 minThe Cheese Store of Beverly Hills
Next we return to our neck of the woods to sample hundreds of different cheeses. We wish! Seriously though, The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills has 500 different kinds of cheeses for every occasion.
Read the story15 minMake mine a Swedish meatball sandwich
If cheese ain’t your thing, consider gravlax, lingonberry jam and cod roe squeezed from a tube atop a slice of crusty bread. That’s what's on offer at Olson’s Scandinavian Delicatessen on Pico Boulevard. The shop switched hands from one Olson to another after it first opened its doors in 1948.
Read the story7 minJonathan Gold dines at Kobee Factory and Syrian Kitchen
Syria has long been on our minds since the Arab Spring protests first erupted throughout the Middle East in 2011, and even more so now with President Trump’s recent travel bans.
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