Good Food
Mother’s Day; Foie Gras Wars; 40-Pound Cabbage; Goat Soup
Think you should be able to cook like a chef at home? It may not be your cooking skills that need work. Some things that chefs take for granted but don't exist in your home. Foie Gras is fatty goose liver. The practice of getting that liver fat drives animal-rights advocates wild. Why foie gras was banned in Chicago two years ago and what impact it had. Mother's Day is tomorrow. Now is a good time to forgive her. How food icon Ruth Reichl did that and found herself in the process. Jonathan Gold is here and is so is Entourage actress and Italian food lover Debi Mazar.
By Evan Kleiman • • 58m ListenJonathan Gold digs into a bowl of goat meat soup. Debi Mazar and Italian husband Gabriele Corcos make home cooking videos that are inspiring. Ruth Reichl of Gourmet Magazine shows us how to love your mom even though you turned out okay in spite of her. Ten year-old Katie Stagliano grew a 40 pound cabbage. Find out what she did with it. Aussie chef Curtis Stone knows how people are really cooking at home and he tells all. Foie gras or fatty goose liver caused an uproar and was banned in Chicago, according to writer Mark Caro. And Kathleen Collins traces the history of the televised cooking show. Plus Laura Avery checks in with farmers for the Market Report.
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8 storiesMarket Report
Chef Christophe Bernard, Academic Chair of the International Culinary School at the Art Institute of California, Los Angeles. His students will be making a California-style ratatouille at the Santa Monica Festival. Ratatouille, a French country-style dish, includes a variety of vegetables including zucchini, onions, carrots, eggplant,…
Read the story9 minGoat Soup
Jonathan Gold is the Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic for the L.A. Weekly. He recently feasted on goat in Koreatown. For a late night meal, he recommends Bulrocho . Read his review at the LAWeekly.com. Another option for goat in Koreatown is Chin Ko Gae. Bulrocho 955 S. Vermont Ave., L.A.
Read the story7 minUnder the Tuscan Gun
Debi Mazar and Gabriele Corcos host the web video series Under the Tuscan Gun . Debi is an American actress and her husband, Gabriele, is an Italian chef from Fiesole, Italy. Most recently, Debi has appeared on Entourage . The couple live in Los Angeles and in Tuscany. Polenta Pasticciata (Polenta Cake "Parmesan") Serves: 4 …
Read the story7 minNot Becoming My Mother
Ruth Reichl is the Editor-In-Chief of Gourmet . Her latest book is Not Becoming My Mother and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way . Music Break: Dig Dis by Hank Mobley
Read the story8 minA 40-Pound Cabbage
Katie Stagliano is a ten-year old from Summerville, South Carolina. Last year, in a third grade project, she planted a cabbage seedling. That cabbage grew to 40-pounds. Katie donated it to the soup kitchen at Tricounty Families Ministry and it fed 275 people. Inspired, Katie encouraged her school to start a vegetable garden. The produce…
Read the story7 minThe Take Home Chef
Curtis Stone is an Australian chef, cookbook author and host of Take Home Chef on TLC. His latest book is Relaxed Cooking with Curtis Stone . Curtis also has a selection of cooking tools, including this reversible cutting board called the Flipper .
Read the story7 minFoie Gras Wars
Mark Caro is the author of The Foie Gras Wars: How a 5,000 Year Old Delicacy Inspired the World's Greatest Food Fight . In 2006 Chicago banned foie gras, the fattened goose or duck liver widely considered a delicacy among gourmets. Many animal rights activists object to the way foie gras is produced. The goose or duck is force-fed through a…
Read the story7 minThe Evolution of the TV Cooking Show
Kathleen Collins is the author of Watching What We Eat: The Evolution of Television Cooking Shows . The very first cooking show on TV was I Love to Eat, hosted by culinary legend James Beard. The show ran for one season on NBC. Later, Julia Child popularized the genre with The French Chef on PBS, which premiered in 1963. In the early…
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