Good Food
Carrot Cake Smackdown; Kitchen Incubators; Recipes after Katrina
Food memories are so powerful they can conquer Alzheimer's, deprivation and even a community lost to a hurricane. How to build a community back together one recipe at a time. And do you take vitamins? There is increasing evidence that they are doing nothing for you. Plus, the best bakeries in LA.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1h 0m ListenMargot Dougherty makes a best- of list for LA's bakeries. And vitamins aren't doing you any favors according to Dr. Will Clower. If a hurricane destroys a community, can family recipes build it back up? Judy Walker will let us know. Abby Dodge gets busy with carrot cake and says it's making a comeback. Jonathan Gold eats at Bazaar, the new restaurant. And Erik Knutzen & Kelly Coyne push the Urban Homestead movement -- learn to cook, grow and harvest. Rather than open your own commercial kitchen, why not rent one that's already set up? Andrea Bell talks about her shared spaces. Plus Laura Avery hears how to make a fish dinner in 15 minutes.
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8 storiesThe Market Report
Farmer Alex Weiser grows "new" potatoes. These are potatoes that have been just dug from the ground and have not had time for their skin to set and get tough. New potatoes don't need to be peeled and the skin flakes off with your finger. Alex says they are like the veal of potatoes without any cruelty.
Read the story8 minL.A.'s Best Bakeries
Margot Dougherty compiled a list of the 20 best bakeries in the latest issue of Los Angeles Magazine . If your favorite isn't on this list, tell us. Leave a comment below.
Read the story7 minVitamins and Your Diet
Will Clower, author of Fat Fallacy and The French Don't Diet Plan , says that recent studies that question the efficacy of vitamin supplements on disease prevention. Several of these studies looked at the affect vitamins had on cancer and heart disease. You can learn more about the studies in this New York Times article .
Read the story8 minCooking Up a Storm
Judy Walker is the food editor of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans . She is the co-author of Cooking Up A Storm with Marcelle Bienvenu , a columnist for The Times-Picayune. After Katrina, the newspaper became the central point for collecting recipes washed away in the storm. Judy and Marcelle compiled 250 of them in their book. Many…
Read the story7 minA Carrot Cake Smackdown
Abby Dodge is a contributing editor at Fine Cooking magazine and the author of The Weekend Baker . For Fine Cooking's Carrot Cake "smackdown," Abby created a classic carrot cake, complete with cream cheese frosting. Her competition is Jehangir Mehta, chef and owner of Graffiti in New York. Jehangir made spiced carrot cakes with candied…
Read the story7 minJonathan Gold Visits Bazaar
Jonathan Gold is the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for the L.A. Weekly where he writes the Counter Intelligence column. Jonathan recently reviewed Jose Andres' Bazaar , located in the SLS Hotel (465 South La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles). Music break: Up Front by James Hardway
Read the story8 minMaking an Urban Homestead
Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne are the authors of The Urban Homestead and the blog Homegrown Evolution . They own four hens, a vegetable garden, a homemade rooftop dehydrator and are avid canners and lacto-fermerters.
Read the story7 minKitchen Incubators
Andrea Bell is the proprietor of the Chef's Kitchen Cooperative in Los Angeles. The Cooperative has five commercial kitchens, which are rented to artisanal food producers, culinary instructors and catering companies. These rental kitchens are also called "kitchen incubators." To find a kitchen outside of Los Angeles, visit …
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