Good Food
LA Beer Week, Homemade Naan, Banana Hunting
Discovering unique flavors in craft brews, a new technique for making naan at home and searching for unknown varieties of bananas in the Congo...
By Evan Kleiman • • 57m ListenIt's LA Beer Week and Beer Chick Christina Perozzi is here to tell us about the exciting new flavors of local craft brews. Dan Koeppel takes on a journey to the Congo to discover new varieties of bananas. Don't have a tandoor oven in your kitchen? Aarti Sequeira of Aarti Party tells us her secret for making fool-proof naan in a cast iron pan and Michael Ruhlman comes back to the studio to discuss why salt is the most important ingredient in the kitchen. Paul Wenger explains why picking strawberries is harder than you may think and Aaron Gassmann details how pest-resistant crops are losing their pest resistance. Plus, Jonathan Gold takes us to Little Tokyo to a brick and mortar restaurant that started out as a food truck.
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Kajsa Alger is the Executive Chef at Street in Hollywood. You can find her recipe for Braised Endive Gratin on the Good Food Blog . To see a menu of Street's October 11 all-veggie dinner click here . Music Break: "Are You Lonesome Tonight" by the String-a-Longs
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Paul Wenger is the President of the California Farm Bureau Federation. Wenger discusses the E-Verify bill recently introduced by Texas Representative Lamar Smith .
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Christina Perozzi and her partner, Hallie Beaune, are the Beer Chicks . Perozzi calls the unique flavors that are added to craft beers "adjuncts." You can find a selection of the Beer Chicks’ favorite craft brews at the 8th Street Bottle Shop inside the Golden Gopher in Downtown LA.
Read the story8 minMaking Naan at Home
Aarti Sequeira is the host of Aarti Party on the Food Network and the personality behind her blog of the same name. Her recipe for homemade naan is on the Good Food blog .
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Jonathan Gold visits the Flying Pig Cafe in Little Tokyo. The new brick and mortar establishment extends the menu from the Flying Pig Truck but still features their signature pork buns and Asian-influenced tacos.
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Michael Ruhlman is the celebrated cookbook author and blogger who co-wrote all of Thomas Keller and Eric Ripert's cookbooks as well as his own book, Ratio . His latest book is Ruhlman's Twenty : 20 Techniques 100 Recipes A Cook's Manifesto. Ruhlman says that salt, like water, is a crucial ingredient in the kitchen.
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Dan Koeppel is the author of Banana : The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World. His article, " Fruit of the Future ," published in the May 2010 edition of Saveur was nominated for a James Beard Award. Koeppel first appeared on Good Food on January 5, 2008. You can podcast his segment here .
Read the story9 minPest-Resistant Corn No Longer Resisting Pests
Aaron Gassmann is an entomologist at Iowa State University. He explains that genetically modified corn in Iowa is losing its pest resistance. This is the first instance that the western corn root worm has outsmarted a pest-resistant crop.
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