Good Food
Going Bananas; Truck Farming; Heirloom Cookies; The History of Ice Cream
What do you do when you're tired of all those zucchini growing in your garden? Trade it for peaches using classified ads for produce. Urban farming goes mobile with gardening in the bed of a pickup truck. Get your compass and go trekking through LA to find street food in the many ethnic pockets in this giant city. Plus a cold and dripping history of ice cream.
By Evan Kleiman • • 58m ListenTrade your zucchini for peaches using a classified ad network created just for produce. Rob Anderson tells us how it works. Ian Cheney is growing produce in the bed of his pickup truck. The controversy behind the banana documentary, as told by reporter Alexa Hyland. The history of ice cream according to Jeri Quinzio. Trek through Los Angeles to find the best street food the city has to offer. Karen Mack of LA Commons encourages us to get out and explore this giant city of ours. As always, Jonathan Gold has some ethnic eats for us. Camelia Coupal introduces us to Venezuelan cuisine. Plus, we get nostalgic with Marilyn and Sheila Brass and their heirloom cookies. And Laura Avery talks summer grilling at the Santa Monica Farmers Market.
