Good Food
Cooking with Pine, Curtis Stone in the Kitchen, Tex-Mex Dip
Chef CJ Jacobson talks about cooking with pine, KCRW's Saul Gonzalez investigates beekeeping in Los Angeles and Lisa Fain gets to the bottom of a popular Tex-Mex dip.
By Evan Kleiman • • 57m ListenChef CJ Jacobson talks about cooking with pine, KCRW's Saul Gonzalez investigates beekeeping in Los Angeles and Lisa Fain gets to the bottom of a popular Tex-Mex dip.
Banner image: Evan Kleiman and Curtis Stone. Photo: Aaron Fallon
In this episode
7 storiesThe Flavor of the Forest: CJ Jacobson Cooks with Pine
CJ Jacobson is a Top Chef alum and chef at Girasol in Studio City. He is one of the major Los Angeles chefs who have brought foraging to the fore in LA cuisine. He tells Good Food how he's incorporated pine, juniper and rabbit's tobacco into his dishes.
Read the story9 minLos Angeles Beekeepers Seek to Legalize Beekeeping
Beekeeping has become increasingly common in urban areas over the last five years with cities like New York, San Francisco and Santa Monica passing legislation to legalize backyard hives. But in the City of Los Angeles, backyard bees are still a guerrilla movement. Keeping hives is not exactly legal.
Read the story7 minBob Armstrong Dip
Lisa Fain is the author of Homesick Texan, both the book and the blog . She tells Good Food the story behind the Bob Armstrong dip, a popular Tex-Mex dip named after a Texas politician that combines queso, taco meat, sour cream and guacamole. Find her recipe of Bob Armstrong Dip on the Good Food blog .
Read the story6 minJonathan Gold Reviews Little Sister
Jonathan Gold is the Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer for the Los Angeles Times. This week he reviews Little Sister , a new Pan-Asian small plates restaurant in Manhattan Beach from the team behind Abigaile in Hermosa Beach.
Read the story7 minMaude Opens in Beverly Hills
Chef Curtis Stone , best known as the host of Top Chef Masters, joins Good Food to talk about his new restaurant, Maude , opening this weekend in Beverly Hills.
Read the story9 minMarket Report
Laura Avery interviews Shiho Yoshikawa , ice cream chef at Sweet Rose Creamery , which just opened its third location on Beverly Boulevard near Fairfax. She is excited about cherimoyas, guavas, mangoes and citrus this season.
Read the story9 minHipster Hunters
Hank Shaw writes the award-winning blog, Hunter Angler Gardener Cook . His most recent book is Duck Duck Goose . He discusses an emerging generation of younger and more urban hunters who are looking to forge a closer connection to the meat they consume. Read more about it here .
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