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    Good Food

    Chicago-style Hot Dogs; Affordable Wines; Kitchen Knives

    We round up Chicago-style hot dogs, sip affordable wines and learn how to select and maintain kitchen knives. Plus, we get a fresh Market Report with Laura Avery.

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    By Evan Kleiman • Aug 9, 2008 • 1h 0m Listen

    Food critic Jonathan Gold rounds up Chicago-style hot dogs, wine expert Stacie Hunt sips tasty affordable wines and Chad Ward gives us the finer points on selecting and maintaining kitchen knives. Plus, Laura Avery finds what's in season in the Market Report.

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    5 stories
    1. 0:00

      Good Food Sweepstakes

      Subscribe to KCRW during Good Food and you could win a beautiful 10.5" Mauviel Professional Copper Skillet. The Mauviel Professional line has precision heat sensitivity with the strength of 2.5 mm copper walls, thick cast-iron handles riveted through a cast-iron plate, and enhanced sturdiness. Made in France, it's the pan that chefs long for.

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      1 min
    2. 1:23

      The Market Report

      Laura Avery chats with private chef Dave Rubell, who talks about creating a vegetable sauté with the bounty of the market. Create your own with your favorite vegetables. Start with butter and diced shallots. Then add a similarly sized dice of broccoli, corn, asparagus tips, zucchini and anything else you choose.

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      7 min
    3. 8:07

      Chicago-Style Hot Dogs

      LA Weekly 's Pultizer Prize-winning food critic Jonathan Gold hits the LA streets in search of Chicago-style hot dogs. A Chicago-style dog is a Vienna beef frank, yellow mustard, relish, chopped raw onions, celery salt, pickle spear and tomatoes nestled into poppy-seed bun.

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      8 min
    4. 15:45

      Affordable Wines

      Wine guru Stacie Hunt of Du Vin Wine & Spirits sips delicious affordable "full" bottle wines.

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      7 min
    5. 22:57

      Kitchen Knives

      Writer Chad Ward  is author of An Edge in the Kitchen : The Ultimate Guide to Kitchen Knives. He offers pointers on how to buy them, keep them razor sharp, and use them like a pro.   Ward recommends Forschner's Victorinox 8-inch chef's knife - available at most cultery store for $20.

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      7 min
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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

    In this episode

    5 stories
    1. 0:001 min

      Good Food Sweepstakes

    2. 1:237 min

      The Market Report

    3. 8:078 min

      Chicago-Style Hot Dogs

    4. 15:457 min

      Affordable Wines

    5. 22:577 min

      Kitchen Knives

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