Good Food
The Farm Bill; Whoopie Pies; Food Styling
Dan Imhoff shares how the national Farm Bill has sculpted agriculture in America; Amy Bouchard makes Wicked Whoopie Pies; Sandy Oliver visits the dinner tables of Colonial America; Jim Adelman offers more information about wine additives; food stylist Bonnie Belknap gives food the Hollywood treatment; Rachael Sheridan finds the best gourmet and fine foods in Los Angeles; Keith Thomsen breaks down the mysteries of composting; and Laura Avery gives the Market Report.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1h 0m ListenDan Imhoff shares how the national Farm Bill has sculpted agriculture in America; Amy Bouchard makes Wicked Whoopie Pies; Sandy Oliver visits the dinner tables of Colonial America; Jim Adelman offers more information about wine additives; food stylist Bonnie Belknap gives food the Hollywood treatment; Rachael Sheridan finds the best gourmet and fine foods in Los Angeles; Keith Thomsen breaks down the mysteries of composting; and Laura Avery gives the Market Report.
In this episode
8 storiesThe Market Report
Laura Avery spoke with Maryann Carpenter of Coastal Farms. Maryann is known for her wide variety of heirloom field tomatoes which arrive in mid-summer. This week, she has baby pink and yellow turnips. She picks them medium-sized (about the size of a tangerine). They are delicious braised.
Read the story7 minThe Farm Bill
Every five years, the U.S.
Read the story7 minBakin' Whoopie
Whoopie pies are one of Maine’s best-loved and most traditional comfort foods – a soft-cookie sandwich with a fluffy sweet cream filling. Amy Bouchard is the proprietor of Wicked Whoopies , a booming whoopie pie business in Gardiner, Maine that Bouchard started in her own kitchen. In the beginning, Wicked Whoopies was born from Bouchard’s…
Read the story7 minFederalist Foods
Sandy Oliver captures our country’s Federalist and Colonial food traditions in her book, Food in Colonial and Federal America . She documents how American cooking practices changed very little from the early 1600’s to the mid-1700s. The majority of Colonial settlers still cooked on an open fire with kettles and Dutch ovens, although the elite…
Read the story7 minMore About Wine Additives
Last week, Good Food featured a segment about the additives that are commonly used in wine to enhance their flavor – most commonly coloring agents and chemicals.
Read the story7 minEdible Hollywood
Food stylist Bonnie Belknap has one of the most interesting jobs in Hollywood. Her company, Gourmet Proppers , has created astonishing food effects from exploding buffets to a fantasy edible forest with delicious, edible tree branches. From cigarettes to record albums, Bonnie can create almost any object out of edible materials. It doesn’t…
Read the story7 minGo Gourmet
Living in Los Angeles means having access to some of the finest gourmet foods available. But do you know where to find them? Rachel Sheridan is the food buyer at Cube – the bright-walled Los Angeles café that offers a sizeable selection of charcuterie, cheeses and pastas. Cube has organized a culinary fundraiser, the Maker Nights -- a…
Read the story7 minComposting
Keith Thomsen is the director of the Smart Gardening program – a gardening education program sponsored by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works . He organizes composting classes and teaches useful ways to create and utilize this environmentally sound practice.
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