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Easter Eggs; Pan Dulce; Gluten-Free Communion Wafers
Celebrate Easter with Ukrainian Easter eggs, pan dulce from a Mexican panaderia and gluten-free communion wafers.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1h 0m ListenThis week on Good Food with Evan Kleiman, we're celebrating Easter. Sofika Zielyk makes elaborately decorated Ukrainian Easter eggs. She'll tell us about the tradition. We'll go to a Mexican panaderia for some pan dulce with Ricardo Cervantes. Roxana Jullapat of Ammo Cafe gives us a recipe for hot cross buns with candied kumquats. Sister Lynn D'Souza tells us about her gluten-free communion wafers. Plus, Jet Tila shares stories of street food in Bangkok. Laura Avery finds goose eggs at the farmers market. And we'll cook with geek Jeff Potter.
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7 storiesMarket Report
Edgar Jaime of Jaime Farms brings goose eggs to the Farmers Market (Wednesday Santa Monica, Saturday Pasadena). The eggs are large and have a thick shell.
Read the story7 minUkrainian Easter Eggs
Effervescent color tablets aren’t the only way to dye Easter eggs. The Ukrainian art of egg decorating, pysanky, dates back more than 1,000 years. The intricate designs have symbolic meanings – varying from region to region – which are delicately painted onto hollowed-out, raw eggs.
Read the story7 minRobata Jinya
Jonathan Gold is the Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer for the LA Weekly . This week he reviews Robata Jinya on Third St. and Crescent Heights in Los Angeles. Robata restaurants serve a very specific style of Japanese food, prepared on a charcoal grill. Oddly enough, one of Jonathan's favorite dishes is the tofu.
Read the story7 minPan Dulce at La Monarca
Ricardo Cervantes owns La Monarca , a Mexican panaderia or bakery in Los Angeles. They have locations in Huntington Park, East LA and Santa Monica. Pictures of their offerings are on The Good Food Blog . Music Break: Busy Road by The Kudzu Ranch
Read the story7 minGluten-Free Communion Wafers
Taking Communion caused such a problem for those who couldn’t eat the gluten commonly used in communion wafers. While it sounds simple to eliminate the gluten, the Catholic Church requires that the wafers be made with wheat, including the naturally-occurring gluten.
Read the story7 minThai Street Food
Jet Tila is a culinary instructor and the chef/owner of Wazuzu at the Encore in Las Vegas. He's a panelist at Good Food's Global Street Food event on May 1.
Read the story7 minCooking with Geeks
Cooking is a science and Jeff Potter is interested in the hows and whys of the food engineering behind a recipe. His book is Cooking for Geeks .
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