Good Food
The Best of 'Good Food,' 2012 Edition
Highlights from this year including: the Google food program, barrel aged cocktails, the story of Dr. Kellogg, heritage grains and mint juleps.
By Evan Kleiman • • 58m ListenThe Good Food team selects their favorite segments of 2012. Reporter David Segal visits the Kellogg's headquarters in "cereal city." Peggy Noe Stevens discusses mint juleps and her organization "Bourbon Women" and mixologist Steve Livigni explains barrel aged cocktails. Producer Gillian Ferguson visits Google's Mountain View campus where breakfast, lunch and dinner are on the house. Anson Mills founder Glenn Roberts lays out his mission to bring back heritage grains to the American South and Jonathan Gold revisits Shunji in West LA. At the market, chef DJ Olsen is shopping for winter fruit and John Jackson says the key to his near constant crop of blueberries is compost tea.
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DJ Olsen is the Executive Chef at The Black Cat in Silver Lake. He has a bowl of winter fruit on his brunch menu that he serves with a quenelle of Greek yogurt and a drizzle of orange blossom honey. Winter fruits are abundant right now at the Santa Monica Farmers' Market.
Read the story8 minA Reporter Goes to Cereal City
David Segal is a reporter for the New York Times. His article, " When a Sugar High Isn't Enough ," inspired us to speak to him about his recent trip to Battle Creek, Michigan which was formerly known as "Cereal City."
Read the story9 minBourbon Women
Peggy Noe Stevens is a Master Bourbon Taster and the founder of Bourbon Women . Find her Mint Julep recipe on the Good Food blog .
Read the story8 minBarrel-Aged Cocktails
Mixologist Steve Livigni is experimenting with barrel aged cocktails at both Blue Cow and La Descarga where he spearheads the cocktail programs.
Read the story7 minThe Google Food Program
Good Food producer Gillian Ferguson talks to three of Google's executive chefs - Olivia Wu, Quentin Topping and Scott Giambastinni - about the 28 cafes on Google's Mountain View campus. Google employees receive a number of perks including free breakfast, lunch and dinner every weekday and free lunch and dinner on weekends.
Read the story13 minRediscovering Old Grains and Techniques
Glenn Roberts is the owner of Anson Mills in South Carolina. He founded his company to grow, harvest and mill near-extinct varieties of heirloom corn, rice and wheat organically, and to re-create ingredients that were in the Southern larder before the Civil War.
Read the story6 minThe Next Step in the Evolution of the Sushi Bar
Jonathan Gold reviews Shunji , a new sushi bar in West LA housed in humble digs (the facade looks like a giant chile bowl). The roughly 40-seat restaurant is unlike other sushi bars in that it doesn't focus on sushi. Jonathan suggests the omakase menu.
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