Good Food
Tasting the Impossible Burger, salt, butter and spirulina
We taste the latest vegan beef poseur on the market at Crossroads Kitchen, sample fancy salts with n/naka pastry chef Leslie Bilderback and learn about the history of butter-making from Elaine Khosrova. Plus: Jonathan Gold braves the lines at Pizzana in Brentwood, while Laura Avery shops for spirulina at the farmers market.
By Evan Kleiman • • 56m ListenPhoto by Camellia Tse
In this episode
5 storiesTasting the Impossible Burger
We kick off this week’s show at Crossroads Kitchen , an upscale plant-based restaurant in West Hollywood, to taste the Impossible Burger . It’s the latest beef poseur to make its way onto the menus of a handful of restaurants across Southern California.
Read the story12 minSalt of the earth
Salt, it could be argued, is the most important ingredient in the global kitchen. As it performs the simple task of enhancing flavor, salt can also be used to leach out moisture in various preservation methods, tame the sweetness of baked goods and be manipulated into infusions of all sorts.
Read the story11 minJonathan Gold dines at Pizzana
This week, Jonathan Gold braves the lines to try the neo-margherita pie at Pizzana in Brentwood. Tune in to hear what makes Daniele Uditi’s hand-thrown Neapolitan-style pizzas worth the wait and find out what else is on the menu in Jonathan’s LA Times review .
Read the story8 minSpread the word
Whether slathered on an ear of summer corn or a compact pat combined into a gooey melt of maple syrup on a pancake, butter is magical. While the essentials of butter-making remain mostly unchanged, this spread has a surprising history that dates back to the Stone Age.
Read the story16 minThe Market Report: Spirulina
This week at the Main Street Farmers Market in Santa Monica, Laura Avery shops for spirulina with botanist Paul Cathcart, who grows the blue-green algae at Go Spiral Farms in Vista, California. Learn how to cultivate this ancient superfood at home to get your daily dose of phytonutrients.
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