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Cranberry Harvest; Healing the Wounds of War; Paraguay; Bacon as a Weapon
One crop that could never grow in Southern California is the cranberry. They literally need a flood to grow. In this week's show, meet a cranberry farmer and find out what a bog is. Plus how farming can help veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan heal the wounds of war. And hear how one guy considers bacon a weapon of mass destruction.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1h 0m ListenCranberries require a flood of water during harvest. This week, third-generation cranberry grower Dawn Allen Gates tells us just what happens in a cranberry bog. Farming is hard work, but it can also be therapeutic. Michael O'Gorman explains how getting veterans out in the field can help deal with the damages of war. Food writer Jonathan Gold takes us to a hip new street in Palms for some Indonesian food. How about a chipa with your yerba mate? Good Food listener Natalia Goldberg tells us what tea time in Paraguay is like. Can pie be gender specific? Barbara Swell shares stories about her pie competition in rural Appalachia where they had a special category for men's pies. Still looking for WMD? You just might find them in your fridge. Arun Gupta explains how bacon is a weapon of mass destruction. Laura Avery finds fresh macadamia nuts at the Santa Monica Farmers Market.
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8 storiesMarket Report
Amelia Saltsman shows us how to make an easy one pot meal -- chicken in a pot. Amelia is the author of The Santa Monica Farmers Market Cookbook .
Read the story8 minCranberry Harvest
Dawn Gates Allen is a third generation cranberry farmer in Cape Cod, MA. Southeastern Massachusetts has over 14,000 acres of cranberry bogs. The fruit is harvested in two ways: dry and wet harvest. Only ten percent of cranberries are dry harvested . The wet method is better for cranberry products like juice, dried cranberries and sauce. …
Read the story7 minFarmer Veteran Coalition
Michael O'Gorman is the CEO of the Farmer Veteran Coalition , an organization that seeks to place veterans in farm-related jobs. Their goal is to find "employment, training and places to heal" on U.S. farms. Their mainly serve veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan but they assist all veterans. Music Break: Latin Slide by La Clave
Read the story8 minIndo Cafe
Jonathan Gold is the Pulitzer Prize-winning restaurant critic for the LA Weekly . This week he reviews Indo Cafe in the Palms neighborhood of Los Angeles. At this Indonesian restaurant, Jonathan likes gado-gado and the fried chicken. Indo Cafe 10430 National Blvd., Los Angeles (310) 815-1290 See all of Jonathan's recommendations on the …
Read the story8 minBacon As WMD
Arun Gupta is a founding editor of The Indypendent newspaper . He recently wrote a piece for that publication and for Alternet.org called Gonzo Gastronomy: How the Food Industry Has Made Bacon a Weapon of Mass Destruction .
Read the story6 minTea Time in Paraguay
Natalia Goldberg lives and works in Asunscion, Paraguay. She is currently writing an online guide to traveling in this landlocked South American country. Like neighboring Argentina and Uruguay, Paraguayans drink yerba mate, a kind of tea. In Paraguay they drink a sweet mate (Mate Dulce).
Read the story8 minPie Perfection
Barbara Swell is the author of The Lost Art of Pie Making Made Easy . In her book she has step-by-step instructions on how to hold a pie contest. KCRW is hosting the First Annual Good Food Pie Contest on November 14, 2009 from 2-4 pm at Westfield Topanga.
Read the story6 minPie Fro-Down
Greg Ng writes the blog Freezer Burns , where he reviews frozen food products. Greg reviewed a few different frozen pies. In one of his "Fro Downs" he pitted Edwards Georgia Pecan Pie and Sara Lee's Southern Pecan Pie . For Halloween he reviewed Marie Callender's Pumpkin Pie . But his ultimate "Fro Down" was with apple pie . He…
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