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Consolidation in biotech, aeroir, smoked beets, beer cocktails
Harvest Public Media's Luke Runyon fills us in on Bayer's bid to buy Monsanto and Gastropod host Nicola Twilley discusses the concept of aeroir. Then, Jonathan Gold takes us to Salt's Cure for the best pork chop in LA before we pedal candy in Jefferson Park with Grace of the Sea. Plus, Travis Strickland, Jacob Grier and Claire Ptak share recipes for smoked beets, a beer flip and rye chocolate brownies.
By Evan Kleiman • • 57m ListenHarvest Public Media's Luke Runyon fills us in on Bayer's bid to buy Monsanto and Gastropod host Nicola Twilley discusses the concept of aeroir. Then, Jonathan Gold takes us to Salt's Cure for the best pork chop in LA before we pedal candy in Jefferson Park with Grace of the Sea. Plus, Travis Strickland, Jacob Grier and Claire Ptak share recipes for smoked beets, a beer flip and rye chocolate brownies.
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7 storiesBayer's $62 billion bid for Monsanto
This week the German pharmaceutical and chemical company Bayer made a $62 billion bid to buy Monsanto, the biotech business headquartered in Missouri. If the deal goes through, it would create the largest seed and pesticide business in the world.
Read the story10 minThe air we … eat?
Terroir, in wine jargon, is everything. It provides clues as to the particular soil, climate and locale where a grape or bottle of wine was produced. The same can be said for merroir when it comes to oysters. But can air have its own place-based atmospheric flavor?
Read the story8 minYou can't stop the beet
It's Memorial Day weekend. That means it's time to dust off the backyard smoker and throw some — wait for it — beets on the grill. In Santa Monica this week, Baltaire chef Travis Strickland shares his "set it and forget it" smoked beet recipe with Laura Avery. You'll find it waiting for you on the Good Food blog .
Read the story7 minA tour de force chop at Salt's Cure
Sure Sotto and Chi'Spacca have their own great pork chops, but Jonathan Gold and our very own Evan Kleiman agree it is Salt's Cure that has — hands down — the best in town. Chefs Chris Phelps and Zak Walters recently moved their meat joint to Highland Avenue in Hollywood.
Read the story8 minMake that cold one a beer cocktail
For several of us on the Good Food team, Memorial Day weekend means popping open a cold one and sipping it al fresco. This year, make it a beer cocktail. Boilermakers and micheladas are the perfect storm of craft cocktail and craft beer in a glass.
Read the story8 minLet them eat cake
Claire Ptak worked as a pastry chef at Chez Panisse before bringing her Northern Californian sensibility to Violet bakery in London.
Read the story8 minPeddling candy in South LA with Grace of the Sea
Luis Sanchez is an LA street vendor who goes by the name Grace of the Sea . Grace sells bacon-wrapped pineapple-stuffed hot dogs and candy out of a golden basket in Jefferson Park. We close out the show this week riding along with Grace on the candy route. Producer David Weinberg is our guide.
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