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City Bans; Meat Glue; Absinthe
Evan Kleiman visits with lawyer and Glendale City Council Member, Ara Najarian, about the city ordinance that forbids commercial grilling outdoors. Kim Severson, NY Times writer, talks about another ban: NYC's Health Department proposal of a "partial" phase-out of artificial trans fat in all New York City restaurants. James Watson, a Harvard professor who has who has written a book titled: It's Golden Arches East : McDonalds in East Asia, shares his ideas on fast food culture. Food scientist, Harold McGee, explains the fear inducing term, "meat glue" and Simon Ford, says if we're going to be driven to drink we might as well be driving Plymouth Gin. Legendary baker, Peter Reinhart, shares his thoughts on our daily bread and Moveable-Feast blogster extraordinaire, Louisa Chu, has been dancing with the green fairy, and has lived to tell about it.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1h 0m ListenEvan Kleiman visits with lawyer and Glendale City Council Member, Ara Najarian, about the city ordinance that forbids commercial grilling outdoors. Kim Severson, NY Times writer, talks about another ban: NYC's Health Department proposal of a "partial" phase-out of artificial trans fat in all New York City restaurants. James Watson, a Harvard professor who has who has written a book titled: It's Golden Arches East : McDonalds in East Asia, shares his ideas on fast food culture. Food scientist, Harold McGee, explains the fear inducing term, "meat glue" and Simon Ford, says if we're going to be driven to drink we might as well be driving Plymouth Gin. Legendary baker, Peter Reinhart, shares his thoughts on our daily bread and Moveable-Feast blogster extraordinaire, Louisa Chu, has been dancing with the green fairy, and has lived to tell about it.
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8 storiesMarket Report- Carrots, Walnuts
Laura Avery finds Barbara Whyman of Tutti Frutti Farms knee deep in customers at the Santa Monica Farmers Market. She is selling yellow, orange, and purple carrots. She also has leeks, Yukon gold potatoes, and a few varieties of winter squash that she says raw foodists are buying like crazy.
Read the story6 minGin Please!
Simon Ford of Plymouth Gin tells us about the fine flavors of gin and what goes into their centuries old recipe. Simon gets us started with a few recipes we can try at home. Sloe Motion Giz Fizz 20 ml Plymouth Sloe Gin 75 ml champagne garnish: 3 blueberries Pour in the Sloe Gin top with champagne.
Read the story6 minAbsinthe
Louisa Chu is a chef and writer based in Paris and Chicago, and has been a Good Food correspondent since 2002. Good Food followed Louisa Chu through her year at the Cordon Bleu cooking school in Paris. She stayed in France as long as she could, working in many of the best Paris restaurant kitchens. Now we can find her in Chicago.
Read the story7 minMcDonalds Takes Asia
James Watson is a professor at Harvard. He's written a book on the explosion of fast food culture in Asia, It's Golden Arches East : McDonalds in East Asia . Music Break: My Melancholy Baby - Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie
Read the story7 minMeat glue?
Chefs all over the country call on food scientist Harold McGee to decipher the chemical reasons for their kitchen catastrophes. Harold’s book On Food and Cooking is a great reference for the incredible chemistry that takes place in the kitchen.
Read the story6 minBread - Crust and Crumb
Peter Reinhart is a baking instructor at Johnson & Wales University.
Read the story7 minBanning Trans Fats
Kim Severson is a staff writer for the New York Times and co-author (with Cindy Burke) of The Trans Fat Solution: Cooking and Shopping to Eliminate the Deadliest Fat from Your Diet.
Read the story7 minGrill Outside, Break the Law
Glendale recently began enforcing an ordinance that bans commercial grilling outdoors. This is having a big effect on Glendale's Armenian population since this kind of grilling is central to their celebrations and foodways. Ara Najarian is a lawyer by day and a Glendale City Council Member by night. He is also one of 85,000 Armenians in the…
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