Good Food
Sin City Chocolate; French Baguette; Belgian Beer; Wines
This week, we explore French baguettes and country cooking, Belgian beer and the Las Vegas chocolate scene. We also decant some new sparkling wines, sample spicy Northern Thai cuisine and look at vintage grocery lists and the secrets they reveal.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1h 0m ListenHillary Carlip collects shoppers' grocery lists. Dr. Steven Kaplan bakes good French bread, Anne Willan celebrates French country cooking and pub owner David Farnworth serves up Belgian beer. Writer Lark Ellen Gould checks out the Las Vegas chocolate scene, Stacie Hunt decants new sparkling wines and chef Jet Tila samples spicy Northern Thai cuisine. Plus, Laura Avery has a fresh Market Report.
In this episode
8 storiesThe Market Report
Laura Avery chats with the folks from Flying Disc Ranch . This date farm in Thermal, California recently won best citrus prizes in Riverside for its juicy Royal Mandarin oranges, which were formally known as Temple Oranges. The ranch, which also grows Ruby grapefruits, is open for tours.
Read the story7 minGrocery Lists
Performance artist and writer Hillary Carlip collects grocery lists that she finds and "creates" a writer to go with each list. Her book, A la Cart : The Secret Lives of Grocery Shoppers, which will be available for purchase on March 18, compiles several of these vintage shopping lists. Carlip's lists made us curious about YOUR lists.
Read the story7 minFrench Bread
Preeminent bread scholar Dr. Steven Kaplan , a professor of history at Cornell University, discusses how to bake the sublime baguette and other French breads in his book, Good Bread Is Back : A Contemporary History of French Bread, the Way It Is Made, and the People Who Make It.
Read the story7 minFrench Country Cooking
Anne Willan, has run the legendary La Varenne , cooking school in France, is a leading authority on French cooking and its culinary history. Willan, who's just moved to Santa Monica, celebrates French culinary culture in her book, The Country Cooking of France .
Read the story7 minBelgian Beer
David Farnworth serves up Belgian beer at the 9th Annual Belgian Beer Festival at Lucky Baldwins Pub in Pasadena and Sierra Madre. The event features over 80 different Belgian beers and 61 beers rotating on tap. Belgian beer is drunk like wine and is served with its own unique glassware.
Read the story7 minSin City Chocolate
Odds are that the first thing you think of when you think about Las Vegas is not the chocolate scene. Perhaps Lark Ellen Gould will change your mind! Evan discovered Gould through her a recent Los Angeles Times article , in which she wrote about her chocolate odyssey along the Strip.
Read the story7 minNew Sparkling Wines
Du Vin Wine 's Stacie Hunt decants the latest fizzy, sparkling wines.
Read the story7 minNorthern Thai Cuisine
Jet Tila , our local authority on Thai food, recommends Spicy BBQ Restaurant, a iny, 15-seat, four-table restaurant that features 11 authentic northern Thai dishes. Tila recommends Northern Thai Egg Noodles, a curry-based soup with fresh turmeric and fat egg noodles. Also try the Larb, which is made with slices of liver, pig ear and ground pork.
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