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Remembering Marcella Hazan, Cooking on a Food Stamp Budget
We remember the Italian cookbook author Marcella Hazan. Plus, could you create three meals a day with a budget of $4.50? A chef takes the food stamp challenge.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1h 0m ListenMarcella Hazan - noted Italian cookbook author - died this week. Evan Kleiman fondly recalls meeting her for the first time. Another cookbook legend, Anne Willan, drops by to discuss her new memoir and journalist Bryan Walsh details the latest hurdles in the plight of the honeybee. Jonathan Gold reviews Willie Jane, the new Abbot Kinney restaurant from chef Govind Armstrong and Marni and Howard Witkin stop in to debut their etrog liqueur. Plus, pastry chef Lincoln Carson discusses his experience trying to cook and feed himself on just $4.50 a day. At the market, Laura Avery bumps into Charlie Schaffer who is buying squash blossoms and Casey Richie shares some tips for how to store the delicate flowers.
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7 storiesRemembering Marcella Hazan
Marcella Hazan passed away on Sunday, September 29th, 2013. This interview first aired in 2009 when she released her memoir Amarcord: Marcella Remembers. A eulogy, along with a recipe, written by Evan Kleiman is on the Good Food Blog .
Read the story8 minAnne Willan’s New Memoir - One Souffle at a Time
Anne Willan is the author of multiple seminal cookbooks on French cuisine and the founder and owner of La Varenne cooking school. Her new memoir is One Souffle at a Time: A Memoir of Food and France. Find a recipe for her Chocolate Souffle on the Good Food Blog. .
Read the story8 minMarket Report
Charlie Schaffer and his wife Kathleen owns Schaffer’s Genuine Foods , a catering and event company in Venice. They like to stuff squash blossoms with burrata, and dip them in tempura batter before deep frying them. They serve the blossoms with sliced tomato and a currant dressing. Find the recipe on the Good Food Blog .
Read the story8 minThe Plight of the Honeybee
Some estimate that as much as one third of the food we eat depend on the vitality of the honeybee. Bryan Walsh is a reporter for Time Magazine and he researched the plight of the honeybee for a recent cover story.
Read the story9 minShrimp & Grits Hit Venice
Jonathan Gold is the Pulitzer Prize winning food writer for the LA Times. He reviews Govind Armstrong’s new restaurant Willie Jane in Venice.
Read the story7 minEtrog Liqueur
Howard and Marni Witkin are the owners of Sukkah Hill Spirits Liqueurs . They began making etrog liqueur six years ago and the product was so popular among friends that they decided to bottle it. Etrog is the Hebrew word for a type of citron. It is used in a ritual during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, which just ended last week.
Read the story8 minCould You Survive on Just $4.50 a Day?
Bob Brenneman is the Development Director at the San Francisco and Marin Food Banks . The food banks recently issue a Hunger Challenge and invited local chefs and politicians to try and eat for a week on a food stamp budget. Lincoln Carson, pastry chef for Michael Mina’s restaurant group, was one of the participants.
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