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    'Power Vegetables'

    Never mind the meat and carbs. Peter Meehan dials up the salt, fats and acids in his latest cookbook, Lucky Peach Presents: Power Vegetables! Turbocharged Recipes for Vegetables with Guts .

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    By Evan Kleiman • Jan 21, 2017 • 1 min read

    Never mind the meat and carbs. Peter Meehan dials up the salt, fats and acids in his latest cookbook, Lucky Peach Presents: Power Vegetables! Turbocharged Recipes for Vegetables with Guts. Armed with scores of veg-friendly recipes and a few essential flavor boosters, the Lucky Peach co-founder and editor says your weeknight dinners are about to get more “AWESOME.” Go ahead. Knock yourself out with his recipe for kung pao celeries on the Good Food blog.

    Music: "American Boy" (Instrumental) by Estelle

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    ‘The Best Restaurants in America’ and power vegetables
    1. 0:00The Market Report: Mandarins
    2. 8:30The Best Restaurants in America
    3. 17:43‘The Encyclopedia of Spices and Herbs’
    4. 26:24'GoatMan'
    5. 37:37'Power Vegetables'You’re reading this
    6. 51:04Jonathan Gold says "Here's Looking at You"
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      Evan Kleiman

      host 'Good Food'

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      Laryl Garcia

      Senior Director, Good Food

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      Abbie Fentress Swanson

      Independent reporter and producer

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      Camellia Tse

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    The full episode

    5 of 6
    ‘The Best Restaurants in America’ and power vegetables
    1. 0:00The Market Report: Mandarins
    2. 8:30The Best Restaurants in America
    3. 17:43‘The Encyclopedia of Spices and Herbs’
    4. 26:24'GoatMan'
    5. 37:37'Power Vegetables'You’re reading this
    6. 51:04Jonathan Gold says "Here's Looking at You"
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